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Don't Wake Up by Liz Lawler My rating: 5 of 5 stars Alex Taylor is a doctor, working in a busy Casualty department, so imagine her horror when she woke up tied to an operating table, with a "surgeon" threatening to perform horrific procedures on her. When she wakes up again, she goes to hospital, insisting she's been raped, but it appears that she is unharmed, with no signs of sexual assault, and no one believes her horrifying story. Gradually, her colleagues step away from her, as does her family and her partner. Convinced she is going mad, Alex struggles to carry on with daily life, and then she encounters someone in the Casualty department who experienced a similar situation. This was an amazing thriller, which was extremely compulsive, I just didn't want to put it down. It sent chills down my spine, and even when I thought I'd figured it out, I was wrong!!!! I was given a free copy of this book in return for an honest an...

Christmas in London by Anita Hughes My rating: 4 of 5 stars Louisa Graham works in a New York bakery, and has big dreams to one day open her own restaurant specialising in desserts. Just before Christmas, at the end of a long day, Noah, a runner for a tv cookery programme walks into the bakery, and begs Louisa to sell him the cinnamon rolls that she'd been baking for the following day. The show that he works on, had a fire in their kitchen, and he needed something for the presenter Bianca to hold up in front of the camera. Noah returns the following day with good news and bad news - the cinnamon rolls were a huge success, but sadly, the presenter of the show developed an allergic reaction to them, and had to pull out of the filming of the annual Christmas Even Dinner TV special at Claridge's hotel in London. Then Noah offers Louisa the opportunity of a lifetime - to stand in for Bianca for the filming and before she knows it, she's on a b...