#BlogTour: All The Little Children by Jo Furniss @Jo_Furniss @annecater #AllTheLittleChildren #RandomThingsTours #OMG

Book Synopsis:

When a family camping trip takes a dark turn, how far will one mother go to keep her family safe?

Struggling with working-mother guilt, Marlene Greene hopes a camping trip in the forest will provide quality time with her three young children—until they see fires in the distance, columns of smoke distorting the sweeping view. Overnight, all communication with the outside world is lost.

Knowing something terrible has happened, Marlene suspects that the isolation of the remote campsite is all that’s protecting her family. But the arrival of a lost boy reveals they are not alone in the woods, and as the unfolding disaster ravages the land, more youngsters seek refuge under her wing. The lives of her own children aren’t the only ones at stake.

When their sanctuary is threatened, Marlene faces the mother of all dilemmas: Should she save her own kids or try to save them all?

All The Little Children is available to buy now in ebook and paperback.  You can purchase your copy of both here.

My Review:

All The Little Children is a book that I definitely won’t be forgetting any time soon! The book gripped me from the start with the action starting almost immediately.  I was instantly intrigued, what had happened? Where was everyone?

The tension in the book is almost unbearable at times as the author cleverly increases it as the situation gets more confusing and murky.  I found I simultaneously wanted to read more to find out what happens and to stop reading as I wasn’t sure if I’d like the answer.  I could almost feel Marlene’s sense of confusion and desperation as she tries to keep her family and the other children safe.  I found myself biting my nails as I read wondering what she was going to do.  I also wondered what on earth I would do in a similar situation.  I would be desperate to save my kids but I’d like to hope i’d help the others too.

Marlene is a fantastic main character and one that I found quite relatable as she does a lot of things I know I do with the children.  My husband and I are forever spelling words out and I often try to hide from them when I’m trying to talk on the phone.  (They always seem to get so loud and have a burning question that needs answering right then!) I did feel for her and the other adults in the book as they tried to keep everyone together and do what they thought was best.  Her fear and confusion about the situation she found herself in was quite heartbreaking and I wanted to give her a hug at times.

The pace and intrigue gradually increases as the story goes on making the book hard to put down.  It’s quite creepy at times and I did find that I didn’t want to turn the light off to sleep whilst reading it.  The twist at the end was brilliant and took me by surprise which was brilliant!

This is Jo Furniss’s debut novel which is hard to believe as this book is so well written and plotted.  It would make a great book club book as there is lots to discuss.  I definitely look forward to reading more from this author soon, her next book The Trailing Spouse is out in a few months I believe.

Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the tour and to Jo Furniss for sending me a copy of the book.

If you like gripping, dark dystopian thrillers you will love this book!

About The Author:

After spending a decade as a broadcast journalist for the BBC, Jo Furniss gave up the glamour of night shifts to become a freelance writer and serial expatriate. Originally from the United Kingdom, she has lived in Switzerland and Cameroon and currently resides with her family in Singapore.

As a journalist, Jo has worked for numerous online outlets and magazines, including Monocle, the Economist, Business Traveller, Expat Living (Singapore), and Swiss News. Jo has also edited books for a Nobel Laureate and the Palace of the Sultan of Brunei. In 2015, she founded SWAG—an online literary magazine for writers in Singapore.

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