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Jo P
@joebellapreads.bsky.social
Book blogger, love crime and thriller, but do read a mix of other genres.
📍Lancashire
CR Heads will roll by Josh Winning

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💙📚 Morning #booksky, #bookreview here for you

📕 Some of us are liars by @fionacumminsauthor.bsky.social
A 5 ⭐️ for me. Gripping, family drama, psychological thriller. Lots of shock reveals. It’s out today!
AD/PR. Thanks @panmacmillan.bsky.social

Full review:

www.instagram.com/p/DLEmLdTg6r...
June 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
💙📚 Absolutely hooked on this book! Such a brilliant YA thriller.

#yathriller #thrillerthursday #booksky
May 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
💙📚 #bookreview

📕 They had it coming by @nikkismithauthor.bsky.social
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Out tomorrow!

If you want a perfect summer read then you need to get this! It’s twisty, gripping, a brilliant destination thriller.

AD/PR

Full review here:

www.instagram.com/p/DJ580MGg-6...

#booksky #summerreads
May 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
💙📚 Five YA books on my TBR I’m excited to read.

I love a YA book, they’re quick easy reads in between all more darker thriller books I read.

These ones all sound really good. Particularly excited for the new Rory Power one, this is out 5th June.

*some AD/PR

#booksky #yabooks #yathriller #tbr
May 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
💙📚 #bookreview

📕 The cliffhanger by Emily Freud
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

This is a tense, gripping thriller. A slow start but then the pace ramps up. It makes you feel incredibly uneasy.

Full review here:

www.instagram.com/p/DJi1J8wIUI...

AD/PR

Thanks @quercusbooks.bsky.social for sending me this.

#booksky
May 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
💙📚 Morning #booksky !

Hope everyone is having a good start to the long weekend. We’re off on our travels to Wiltshire to see my family.

I thought I’d share a stack of books that have all released in the last week. These are all brilliant reads, I have done full reviews on my Instagram.

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April 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
💙📚#bookreview

📕 My daughter is missing by JD Kirk
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Out today!

This is a brilliant, gripping fast paced read. Great twist! It had me reading late into the night. Thank you @bookouture.bsky.social for sending me a copy.

Full review here:
www.instagram.com/p/DIgBcSyg82...

#booksky #bookrecs
April 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
💙📚 #bookreview

📕 Hope street by Mike Gayle
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A beautiful, emotional heartwarming read. Loved the characters, you were really rooting for them.

Full review here:

www.instagram.com/p/DGkmzbegnV...

#booksky #bookrecs #bookrecommendation
February 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
💙📚 #bookreview

Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
AD/PR - thanks to @panmacmillan.bsky.social for sending me this.

4⭐️ - this was a book of 2 halves for me. First half quite slow,then picked up the pace, gripping, and some crazy twists. Full review below:

www.instagram.com/p/DFpVrL1tOx...

#booksky
February 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#bookmail

Love it when a pre- order arrives to cheer up my day!

I’ve seen people say if you like Katy Brent’s or books like don’t swipe right then you’ll love this. I love those books and their dark humour so really excited to read this one.

#newbook #booksky #bookmailisthebest
January 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Happy publication day to The Crash by Freida McFadden.

AD/PR. Thanks to Source international for sending me this.

4⭐️ - A great easy to read thriller. Really builds the tension, has a great twist. Very satisfying ending.

Full review here:
www.instagram.com/p/DFXTQ3lgti...

#booksky
January 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
💙📚 #thrillerthursday

Here is a stack of new thrillers I’ve added to my TBR in the last few weeks. Mostly Christmas gifts and books I bought with vouchers I got for Christmas. Very excited for these, have been wanting to read these for a long time. Have you read any?

#tbr #tbrstack #booksky
January 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
💙📚 #twofortuesday
Here’s two new #yabooks I’m excited to read!

📕 The romantic tragedies of a drama king by Harry Trevaldwyn. I’ve heard this described as Adrian Mole meets Georgia Nicholson, and I’m here for that!

📕 Two sides to every m*rder by Danielle Valentine - A YA thriller.

AD/PR
#booksky
January 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
💙📚 #bookmailmonday

Feeling very grateful to have been sent some amazing books last week. I won a competition for Notes on a drowning. A couple of readalongs with @panmacmillan.bsky.social and Bookbreak. Thanks to @vintagebooks.bsky.social for No filters. Several exciting new books for my TBR! AD/PR
January 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
💙📚 #bookreview
📕 Playgroups and Prosecco by Jo Middleton

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I absolutely loved this book! It’s hilarious, light hearted, incredibly relatable if you’re a parent. Written in diary style, very easy to read.

Detailed review here:

www.instagram.com/p/DE63fFYAvf...

#bookrec #booksky #funnybooks
January 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
💙📚 Happy publication day to An ethical guide to m*rder by @drjennymorris.bsky.social .

This book was so unique, such an interesting premise and got you thinking about the moral implications and what you would do in this situation. I loved it!

5⭐️ read!

AD/PR

#bookrec #5starread #newbookrelease
January 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
💙📚 Books released Jan to March that I’d recommend!

These books are all absolutely brilliant reads that are being realised over these next few months. If you love #thrillerbooks then you will probably love these.

Details of the release dates and my thoughts are in the post below.

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January 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
💙📚 My January hopefuls!

I’m trying not to choose huge piles each month to is year, I’m a mood reader and I never stick to the original hopefuls. These books are ones I’m really keen to read or reading as buddy reads or book tours. *some AD/PR - Thanks to @annerandomthings.bsky.social

#booksky
January 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
💙📚 #bookreview

📕 The Clique by @rhiannonbarnsley.bsky.social
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

This is a gripping, twisty to thriller. A secret society of women who are doing anything to get ahead. This had me hooked. A brilliant debut novel.

Full review here:

www.instagram.com/p/DEmaZVEAjb...

#booksky #bookrecs
January 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
💙📚 My December #readingwrapup

Had a great month, with the time off work I managed to fit in much more reading. Got through 12 books in total, lots of really good ones.

My full review and quick fire thoughts on each are in the link below;

www.instagram.com/p/DEewShEtin...

#booksky #reading
January 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
💙📚 #bookreview
📕 An ethical guide to m*rder by @drjennymorris.bsky.social

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is such a brilliant book, a very unique premise, an interesting moral dilemma, this had me absolutely hooked.

Full review below:
www.instagram.com/p/DEXAwowApQ...

#booksky #bookrecs #fivestarreads
January 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
💙📚 My top 20 books of 2024.

There were so many good ones I couldn’t whittle it down to 10 so ended up with 20.

What were your favourite reads of 2024?

#booksky #top20books #fivestarreada
January 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
💙📚 Christmas book gifts! Was very excited to see some book shaped gifts under the tree yesterday, here’s the books I got.
Particularly excited to read the TJ Newman one, her other books have been amazing!

Did you get any books for Christmas?

#booksky #bookgifts #christmas #bookhaul
December 26, 2024 at 9:54 AM
💙📚 Merry Christmas everyone! Hope everyone is having a great day whatever you’re doing or however you do/dont celebrate. I hope it’s filled with fun and laughter (and books).

#booksky #merrychristmas #christmas
December 25, 2024 at 4:22 PM
💙📚 Happy Christmas Eve! Most of the key things have been done now, just a couple more presents to wrap then I’ll be ready for tomorrow. I’m currently obsessed with this book, hoping I can grab some time to finish it this evening!

What are your Christmas Eve plans?

#christmaseve #booksky #bookrec
December 24, 2024 at 5:01 PM