Top Ten 2015
Whilst most of these were published in 2015, this is really a list of my favourite books that I read this year. My average rating for 2015 is 3.8 which I take as an excellent sign. I did try to read more older books with…
Top Ten Most Anticipated
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This is my Top Ten Most Anticipated Releases For The First Half of 2016, although I haven’t done loads of research into new releases lately, so I’m probably missing some good ‘uns. These have…
The Masked Truth
Riley Vasquez and Max Cross each have their own problems but neither of them wants to be shipped off to a residential therapy camp. Events take a turn for the worse when three masked men break in, holding the teenagers hostage to extort money out…
When I Was Me
Ella wakes up one Monday morning and her bed is in the wrong place. In fact her whole room is wrong. Yet she’s still at home. Her hair is longer and her clothes are not her style at all. Her mum’s hair is grey. She…
The Great Christmas Knit Off
If being left at the altar wasn’t bad enough, Sybil’s fiancée left her for her twin sister. She’s so distracted at work, she believes she’s made the biggest cock-up and flees to the country to visit her best friend. Completely unprepared, the locals take pity…
Extraordinary Means
Latham House is a school for sick teens; those diagnosed with the now incurable tuberculosis. They are given a chance to recuperate and continue their studies but Lane doesn’t want to ease off. He wants his life back, with his achievements and his girlfriend. Sadie…
The Penguin Lessons
When Tom Michell takes a teaching job in Argentina, he hopes to see the world, despite reservations from his friends and family back home. Yet whilst on his travels he comes across an oil-slicked beach in Uruguay, and a swathe of dead penguins. In amongst…
Meatspace
The first and last thing I do every day is see what strangers are saying about me. Life isn’t going so well for Kitab Balasubramanyam. He’s lost his job for writing a novel on company time, a novel that now isn’t selling so well, and…
Incoming!
We have a non-essential item buying ban in December so not to ruin presents for each other. That did mean I had a tiny splurge before November was out. I also bought a few bargain ebooks in the Black-Will-It-Never-End-Friday-Through-To-Cyber-Monday deals. For Review: The Thing Itself…
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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…