Pleasant Surprises: Books That Exceeded Our Expectations

anglemark: I don't like zombie stories. Color me surprised at how good this book was!

CarltonC: Wowed by the imaginative rewriting of the epic from a different perspective and in such readable prose.

Porua: I rarely read books I know nothing of, from authors I know nothing of. Both were true for this book and yet I not only read and enjoyed it, I actually bought a print copy of it.

LDVoorberg: You must listen to the audiobook: the narrator makes the series amazing.

Boand: Another recommendation of a whodunnit led me to the first of this quirky series and sealed it as one of my all time favourites. What’s not to love about a pesky teenage girl who beats the grownups at their own games, negotiates troublesome sisters and adores her father while they all mourn her mother and saves Britain from evil masterminds.

perennialreader: I did not like Eat, Pray, Love but someone recommended this one and I actually like it.

BornAnalog: One of the few books that everyone talked up to me, and then it actually delivered. And then some.