Show Us Who You Are book review

I love Elle McNicoll as an author so much and was so excited to read her entire back list.

Show Us Who You Are follows Cora who is autistic and often struggles to make friends. Cora's brother introduces her to his boss's son Adrian whom she immediately makes great friends with but together they slowly discover more information about Adrian's dad's company Cora needs to work out what she wants to do and what the right thing to do is.

I connected so much to many of Cora's struggles and loved her as a character so much. She was great to read about and I just wanted the best for her which often meant I wanted to talk to other characters and just explain it all. The way she approaches everything that goes down made me really want the best for her and help her make the right and hard decisions. You understand why she makes the decisions she does and how things that have previously happened impact her and her decisions.

I love Adrian and the friendship that he builds with Cora. I also like how the two of them connect so well through the fact they are both neurodivergent and understand each other through that but don't push each other too much either, it felt perfect for both of them. The way the story ended was fantastic and made me so happy for all the characters.

Once I was immersed in the story I could not put it down and was desperate to find out how it was all going to end for Cora. I read so much in one sitting and was so heavily immersed in it during a single evening unable to put it down.

I liked the AI and sci-fi parts of the story and how that was linked to the contemporary world that Cora lives in. It felt like the best of both genres and as someone that isn't a massive sci-fi reader in many ways, it felt more approachable due to that.

An easy five star read that I highly recommend and look forward to getting a physical copy of. Elle McNicoll is becoming a fast favourite author of mine and I am looking forward to reading the rest of her books that I have yet to do so.

Comments

The Match book review

Back in April I was recommended my first Sarah Adams book and really enjoyed it however it wasn’t my favourite type of romance book so when I saw this one had been rereleased and was 99p on Kindle I knew that I needed to read it. The Match follows Evie who works for a company that trains service dogs to help people with all sorts of disabilities after her life was changed when she got a service dog to help with her epilepsy and when she meets Jacob when trying to convince him how much a service dog would help his daughter she begins to fall for him and his small family. This was such a light brilliant romance that I just wanted to read and continue to be immersed in the story for as long as I could. I loved all of our major characters particularly Evie, Jacob and Sam (Jacob's daughter). Sam just added the best things to the story and the romance going on between Evie and Jacob. She was also a brilliant character on her own that you really felt for and you just underst...

Daughter of the Pirate King book review

I was expecting to enjoy this book but nowhere near as much as I did and I really wished I could have given it five stars but it was just slightly off of the mark. Daughter of the Pirate King is the first book in a duology which follows Alosa who is the well-trained seventeen year old pirate daughter of the Pirate King himself, on a mission to find part of an ancient secret map on an enemy pirates ship. This is possibly the first pirate fantasy I’ve ever read, but I loved it and need to read more because there were so many fantastic elements in it that I want to read more. I also now want to read all of Tricia Levenseller’s backlist because of how stunning this book was and I want to see more of it continued in her other books, also the UK covers are absolutely stunning and I really want to own them all! There were twists in this book I was not expecting, characters I fell in love with and moments that made me really laugh. Alosa knew what she wanted and how to ...

The Eternal Ones book review

I may be posting this a month after I promised I would on my bookstagram but better late than never. If you want to see more of my immediate thoughts on this conclusion to a series I have been reading for years my booksta post is here . The Eternal Ones is the final book in the YA fantasy Deathless series by Namina Forna which follows Deka as she discovers more about the world and who she is. We follow on quickly after The Merciless Ones ended with no major plot points happening in between. As with the previous two books, there are many content warnings that come with the story, it doesn’t have any new strong ones so if you have read and been fine with the previous two you should be fine but if you are new to the series then I would recommend checking them out. Throughout the books we continue to follow Deka’s POV which works really well for the story as we discover so much and being in Deka’s head means we are kept in the know nd see how things and discoveries unrav...

Eilidh Reads

Search This Blog