Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you all have a fabulous time enjoying the holidays. I know that for me it will be a much-needed moment for resting, spending time with family, eating lots of cake (well, maybe more like eating lots FULL STOP...), and obviously reading!

Thank you for stopping by and sticking with me, it means a lot.

The Friday 56 #5

The Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda's Voice. The rules are simple:

*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56, or 56% in your eReader.
*Find any sentence (or a few, just don't spoil it) that grab you.
*Post it.

*Add your (url) post here in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url.

It's that simple!

Reading Challenges for 2015

Time for lots of hot chocolate. Yay!

So, it's December already and that means winter, hot drinks, Christmas lights and holiday spirit. I've already started humming Christmas carols while cleaning, and I'm slowly getting in the mood for all the holiday films. It may be just me, but I can't go by without seeing all the Christmas films on television! I'm way behind on my Christmas shopping (meaning I have yet to begin), but I've started my holiday reads, so I guess that says something about my priorities...

Of course, December wouldn't be complete if I didn't also start getting ready for the New Year. And that includes choosing which reading challenges I will participate in during 2015! I'm incredibly excited about this, since I've never taken part in any of these before. I've decided to keep it simple for this first year, only signing up to a few challenges, and see how it goes before stepping it up over the course of the next few years. So, here are the reading challenges I've decided to sign up to in 2015.

Book Review: Murder on the Hill by Kennedy Chase

I received an e-ARC of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Publisher: Monty's Tale Press

Published: 3 November 2014

Series: Harley Hill Mysteries #1

Pages: 252

Rating: 4/5

  

Blurb from Goodreads

Look out London, there's a new investigator in town! Harley Hill is a twenty-five year old woman in need of a new identity. Until now she's been known as many things: Thief, Bandit, The Girl Dressed Like a Ninja... 

When she's offered an investigative position at the Silvers Finders Agency, she decides it's time to go straight. But when a jewelry store break-in she's investigating turns into a murder case, Harley will need all her skills to find the killer and avoid the attentions of a Russian crime boss.

With the help of her new friends, and some from her underworld past, Harley faces a race against the clock. She'll need to uncover the secret behind the artifact left at the jewelry store if she's to catch the murderer. If she fails, it won't just be the job she loses - but her life.