Incoming: Bumper Edition
AKA Showcase Sunday Um, even taking into account two weeks’ worth of books in, this is still a pretty bad state of affairs. A whole box of books from The Works! And um, I’ve been frittering away my Amazon voucher which the water company gave…
The Dance of the Red Death
The Dance of the Red Death is the sequel to The Masque of the Red Death and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous book. Araby has escaped the city, leaving the Red Death and the chaos behind. Reeling from the betrayal of…
Readers Halt
Photos taken at the weekend in Minehead, Somerset. Everywhere I turn, there are books! I loved the instruction at the station for readers to halt. More photos of my trip will end up on Flickr eventually.
Rivers of London
Peter Grant is contemplating his future career in the Metropolitan Police when he sees a ghost. This ghost happens to also be a material witness in a beheading and leads Peter into poking around where he shouldn’t with his partner Lesley (who is destined for…
Top Ten Books So Far in 2013
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I’ve read so many good books this year, it’s already hard to narrow it down to ten. But here goes… (links go through to my reviews rather than me trying and failing to summarise…
Red Death Saga Blog Tour
Guest post by Bethany Griffin, author of The Masque of the Red Death and The Dance of the Red Death + GIVEAWAY! I’m pretty sure that I’m ready for a desert Island scenario- as a kid I read The Swiss Family Robinson at least 5…
The Literary Giveaway Blog Hop
Welcome to the 8th Literary Giveaway Blog Hop hosted by Leeswammes’ Blog! There are over 40 blogs participating so make sure you hop round and see what everyone is giving away. I’m giving away a copy of one of my favourite reads of this year;…
The Pirate’s Wish
The Pirate’s Wish is the sequel to The Assassin’s Curse and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous book. Stranded on the Isles of the Sky, Ananna and Naji fill their days catching and eating fish and bickering over whether or not Ananna…
Any Other Name
Any Other Name is the second book in the Split Worlds series and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous book. Cathy has plans to escape out the window the night before her wedding to William but her family have other ideas. She…
Are you reading this in Google Reader?
If so, the time for procrastination is over! You only have until the end of this month to find a new way to follow RSS and, mostly importantly, blogs. Personally I have switched to Feedly who have done huge amounts of work to prepare for…
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…