Top Twelve 2012
As always I like to wait until the very end of the year to profess my favourite books of 2012, just in case I read something amazing over the holidays (which I did last year). My list is compiled from books I have read during…
2013 Translation Challenge Giveaway
In order to tempt you into signing up for my 2013 Translation Challenge, I’m going to give away some translated books. This will also mean one less book for you to hunt down for the challenge…go one, you know you want to! The winners can…
A Passionate Love Affair With a Total Stranger
Charley Lambert is a hard-working, successful business-woman, perfectly organised and with every minute of her calendar booked up. So what if sometimes she doesn’t really have time to sleep? And she doesn’t need time to date because she has been secretly obsessed with her boss…
The Goddess Inheritance
The Goddess Inheritance is the final book in the Goddess Chronicles and therefore this review will contain spoilers for the previous books; The Goddess Test, The Goddess Hunt, Goddess Interrupted and The Goddess Legacy. Nine months have passed since Kate was taken hostage by Cronus,…
Dead Witch Walking
White witch Rachel Morgan is a runner for Inderland Security, a supernatural law enforcement agency, but she’s starting to tire of all the poor assignments she’s been getting. When she finally quits her job, two of her colleagues decide to follow suit; Ivy the vampire…
Fish Change Direction in Cold Weather
In a Montreal suburb a boy’s parents are getting divorced. When his father moves out, he asks the sky to help him. The next day the temperature plunges and freezing rain brings the city to a standstill. On a street where everyone keeps to themselves,…
The Mad Scientist’s Daughter
One evening Cat’s father brings Finn home. He is to be her tutor. But Finn is no normal tutor; he is a robot, and not just any robot but a billion dollar prototype; one of a kind. To Cat, he is her friend. Her father…
Black Sun
Today he would become a god. His mother had told him so. The opening line may seem like something any mother would tell her son, but in the case of Serapio, his mother truly believes he will become the Crow God reborn. She blinds him,…
Legendborn
The day Bree gets accepted into an early college placement at UNC, is the day her mother dies. The last words they spoke were of anger. Unable to deal with her dad’s grief on top of her own, Bree goes ahead with the placement. Once…
Ninth House
Alex Stern does not belong at Yale. When she awakes as the sole survivor of a multiple homicide, presumed a drug deal gone wrong, she is given an unlikely offer. Come to Yale, join the House of Lethe and oversee the rituals of the other…
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Just let me dust off this blog thing, I have a review for you! One of my anticipated reads released during lockdown was the follow-up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. If you read that, of course will will be dying to know what happened to…