Book Review: House Of Echoes by Barbara Erskine

I thought I'd start doing some book reviews as I love reading and usually read a couple of books a month so here we go with my first book.

Title House of Echoes

Author Barbara Erskine

430 pages

★★★★☆

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Synopsis

Joss Grant is eager to begin a new life when she inherits Belheddon Hall. She brings her husband, Luke and their small son, Tom, to the dilapidated house, and sets about discovering her family roots which lie in the village.

But not long after they move in, Tom wakes screaming at night. Joss heard echoing voices and senses an invisible presence, watching her from the shadows. Are they spirits from the past? Or is she imagining them? As she learns, with mounting horror, of Belheddon's tragic and dramatic history, her fear grows very real, for she realises that both her family and her own sanity are at the mercy of a violent and powerful energy which seems beyond anyone's control.

Thoughts

I borrowed this book off my mum as the synopsis sounded interesting. I love watching scary films but I don't think I've read an actual scary book so thought I'd see what this was like.

It's a classic ghost story set in a haunted old house in England. I love that this story is set in England as most of the books I've read are set in America, it's nice to read something set in my country. I didn't actually find this book to be that scary though, it was a bit creepy in parts but as I was reading it I was constantly waiting for it to get scary. I did enjoy reading this though and I thought it was really well written so I may read some of her other books.

Do you have any scary book recommendations?

Kat

Review: Makeup Revolution I Heart Makeup Death By Chocolate Palette

Todays review is on the Makeup Revolution I Heart Makeup Death by Chocolate palette. Makeup Revolution have 3 chocolate palettes and I currently have 2 of them so only 1 more to buy. The Death by Chocolate palette is like the 'dark chocolate bar' out of the 3 of them.

The packaging is gorgeous, I just want to eat it. The case is very sturdy and also includes a large mirror inside. There are 16 eyeshadows in this palette and they all have names which I love, I find it rather boring when eyeshadows just have numbers or no names.

This palette has a mixture of mattes and shimmers which are just gorgeous colours. There's a lot of brown and gold shades in this palette and a couple of large highlighting shades.

First up is the top row and going from left to right we have White Light, Don't Let Go, Break Me Up, Consume Me and All Is Lost. As you can see or not, White Light is pretty much the same colour as my skin and the rest are all brown shades.

On the middle row we have Lick Me, Fool's Gold, One More Bar, Devour Me, Tear The Wrapper and Love You To Death. A few golds on this row which are really lovely and a couple of purple toned browns.

And lastly on the bottom row we have Pray For Me, Dipped, Tease Me, Set Me Free and Bring Down Angels. Some more gold shades on this row a couple of highlighter shades at the end which you can only just see on my skin as they're shimmers.

I really love this palette and I'm so glad I bought it. Most of the shadows are really pigmented and soft except for Lick Me and All Is Lost which you need to build up the colour a bit. The shadows last really well on the eyes, I wore this palette up London for the day and it still looked great when I got home. Overall this is a really great palette and I would recommend it.

You can buy this for £7.99 from Makeup Revolution or Superdrug.

Have you tried this palette? What do you think?

Kat

Makeup: Iconic Shimmer

I've got a makeup look today using the Makeup Revolution Iconic 3 palette. For this look I used the right side of the palette which is the darker shades.

Face

Maybelline Baby Skin

Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation in 010 Light Porcelain

Maxfactor Colour Corrector in Yellow

Collection Concealer in Fair

Mac Transparent Powder

Sleek Face Form in Fair

Makeup Revolution Vivid Baked Highlighter in Pink Lights

Makeup Revolution Blush in Sugar

Eyes

Makeup Revolution Eye Primer

Makeup Revolution Iconic 3 Palette

Rimmel Wonder'full Mascara

Lips

Avon Lipstick in Wandering Rose

Kat

PurrBox: July 2015

Another PurrBox is here for the month of July. I did cancel my PurrBox subscription but I must have missed the cut off for this months box. I'm still glad I got it though as my kitties love the toys and treats they get.

Inside this months box:

Webbox Cats Delight Cheese Mini Stick

KitNips Salmon Crunchy Cat Treats

KONG Kitten Catnip Mice

Teabag Toy

Catnip

Cat Grass

I've given them the treats a couple of times now and they gobble them down so they obviously like them, although Fudge eats absolutely everything, he's so greedy. Both kitties liked playing with the little mice and were batting them around for ages. I managed to get a clear photo of Cookie playing with one of the mice while he messed up my rug. Fudge also loves playing with the little tea bag toy and it's now missing some of it's feathers.

This month I grabbed the catnip pouch out the box rather quickly before Fudge had a chance to rip it open so I'll let them play with that sometime through the month.

This will be my last PurrBox for a while until I sort my money then I will definitely be starting it back up.

What do you think of PurrBox?

Kat