Avoid clichés like the plague
Nothing is quite what it seems
Takes you on a journey
For reasons I can’t explain, I hate (city), (year).
Will she find true love or will her family stand in the way?
Where everyone has something to hide
Long-buried family secrets
Too many twists
The twist you won’t see coming
A writer at the height of his/her powers
Unputdownable
Funny and touching
By turns funny and moving
Love, loss and longing
Coming back to haunt him
X has Y, but at what cost?
Eg Crime pays, but at what cost?
Lifechanging
A novel for our times
Poignant coming-of-age story
Gritty
If you read one book this year ….
A sexy romp
A tour de force
A page turner
Heart-warming and heart-breaking in equal measure
Important
Timely
Urgent
Inspirational
Gripping
Competling
Thought provoking
Make you and laugh and cry
Achingly beautiful
But X has a secret
An evocation of X
Seering
At once …. And ….
Stunning
Unflinching
Meeting of characters
‘Harry Potter meets …’
Deeply personal memoir
Love that defied the odds
Will X ever be the same?
If you like X, you’ll love Y
Transcends the genre
Impossible to put down
Will keep you guessing until the very end
You can not afford to miss this book
Threatens to tear them apart
This year’s
Must read
Compulsively readable
Laugh-out-loud funny
The most important book of the year
X has it all, until ….
Heart-warming
Shimmering prose
Any question whose answer is inevitably "yes". Eg: "Will she ever love again?"
Can they overcome the past?
Jaw-dropping
A game-change
Refreshing new voice
You can expect X, Y, and much more
Coming of age
The heir to John Le Carré
The new Stephen King
Astonishing debut
Can she start again, or will the past keep coming back to haunt her?
X wasn’t a bad person. They just did a bad thing.
Unflinching
Astonishing
But can she reconcile her … with her …
Read it with the lights on
