The Month That Was…October 2013
Happy Halloween! I’m off to World Fantasy Con shortly but I thought I’d leave you with a round up of the last month. Things have been a little slow on the blog the last few weeks, I think the readathon did me in. But hopefully…
Entangled
I met Ethan the night I was planning to kill myself. Pretty Inconvenient, when you think about it. Grace wakes up in a white room. The last thing she remembers was talking to a man named Ethan and getting into his van. Trying to work…
Books by Numbers
Jumping on the bandwagon after the Other Ellie did this meme that Jess Hearts Books started. My bookcases are in complete disarray but I chose to do this on the two slightly more tidy ones (which comes out at around 350 books). Each book is…
Chimes at Midnight
Chimes at Midnight is the 7th book in the October Daye series and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous books. Reading Order: #1 Rosemary and Rue #2 A Local Habitation #3 An Artificial Night #4 Late Eclipses #5 One Salt Sea #6…
Sad Monsters
Did you know that nearly half of all werewolf attacks start as misguided hugs? There are hits and misses in this collection of woeful tales of sad and misunderstood monsters. The Joy of Unicorns had me snorting with laughter and I loved the human/zombie role…
Maggot Moon
What if the football hadn’t gone over the wall. What if Hector had never gone looking for it. What if he hadn’t kept the dark secret to himself. What if… Then I suppose I would be telling myself another story. Maggot Moon is a short…
The Vampyre Family: The Curse of Byron
Byron, a celebrity in his own lifetime, flees London to escape gambling debts and the rumours his ex-wife has been spreading. He takes with him a young doctor, John Polidori, who has literary ambitions of his own. The young Claire Clairmont’s obsession with the poet,…
#Readathon Over
The end: local time 13:00 Total pages read: 1125 Hours spent reading: 21 Books finished: 3 Coffee count: 5 Pages read since last update: 61 Snacks eaten: buttered crumpets and honey loops Drinks drunk: coffee Wooho, we made it! Huge kudos to anyone who has…
#Readathon Hour 22: Good Morning!
Hour 22: local time 10:00 Total pages read: 1064 Hours spent reading: 18 Books finished: 3 Coffee count: 4 Books: Chimes at Midnight by Seanan McGuire + Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner + The One Plus One by Jojo Moyes Pages read since last update:…
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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…