The Month That Was… July 2013
I think I only managed to squeeze ten books into July but I did start a new job and had a huge clear out of stuff. So at least I know why. And look, there have been some pretty amazing books lately, can’t believe how…
Q+A with Bryony Pearce
Author of The Weight of Souls. How did you come up with the idea of Taylor’s power of marking souls? I wanted to write a ghost story with a difference, so I came up with the idea that Taylor should be forced to avenge the…
Cruel Summer
Smiling, Ryan said, “It sounds mad, but I like to pretend we’re all in a big TV show.” It’s been a year since they left school. Ryan, Katie and Ben went their separate ways to university. Greg has a promising football career ahead of him….
Omens
Olivia Taylor Jones is living the perfect life. Engaged to the perfect man, heir to a department store fortune and contemplating going back to college, little does she know all that can change in an instant. When journalists uncover her heritage, Olivia not only learns…
The Weight of Souls
Taylor is just trying to get through high school like any other girl her age. But Bethany inherited a curse from her now deceased mother. The dead will hunt her out and mark her. If she can’t pass the mark on, she will be sucked…
Rediscovering Classics with Hesperus Press
With all the new titles coming out each year, it’s easy to forget about books from the past. Of course, we all know about Austen and Dickens but Hesperus Press are re-issuing some less well known classics. These are books I didn’t know about but…
Someone Else’s Life
After watching her mother deteriorate and die from Huntington’s disease, Rosie must face up to the fact that she has a 50% chance of inheriting it. She knows that she can’t bear not knowing but then her neighbour drops a bombshell. Rosie isn’t Trudie’s daughter….
Phoenix: Trailer + Giveaway
Lucky thinks he’s an ordinary Human boy. But one night, he dreams that the stars are singing – and wakes to find an uncontrollable power rising inside him. Now he’s on the run, racing through space, searching for answers. In a galaxy at war, where…
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…