The Month That Was… January 2015
2015 has got off to a good start, the holidays helping with a big backlog of books read so the blog looked super active this January! I’m also on track with my reading goal, having read 10 books (without resorting to really short ones). A…
Die Again
Die Again is the 11th book in the Rizzoli and Isles series and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous books. Six years ago, a group of tourists head into the Botswana bush to experience the “real Africa”. One death can be discounted…
Win Bird Box!
Don’t open your eyes. Bird Box by Josh Malerman is one of the best horror books I’ve read (though admittedly, I’m too much of a wimp to read many). You can read my review here. I picked up a spare copy at a recent HarperCollins…
The Invisible Library
The Library’s purpose is to collect and store books from all realities. Irene is a Librarian, whose job it is to venture into different alternates and retrieve books for the collection. They may be those which only exist in one world or which circumstances in…
Trouble
When 15 year old Hannah Shepherd discovers she’s pregnant, she doesn’t know who to tell. She does know that she wants to keep it. She pretends she doesn’t know who the father is, and with her reputation, it’s not hard to convince people. After her…
Weathering
Pearl doesn’t know how she came to be in the river behind her house. Soon her daughter and granddaughter arrive to sort through her things, get the house on the market. Ada and Pepper have moved around so much, Ada never holding down a job…
The Mime Order – Official Blog Tour Stop
The Mime Order is the second book in The Bone Season series and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous book. Having escaped the penal colony of Sheol I, Paige Maloney returns to her life as part of the Seven Seals gang; her…
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Rosemary Cooke was once part of a happy, if not normal, family. She delighted in words and one-upping her sister. Now her brother and sister are gone. As a young woman she is quiet, keeping her past hidden. What happened to her family that keeps…
Red Rising
Darrow mines the minerals deep below the surface of Mars. He is a Red, a race sent ahead to make the planet inhabitable for the rest of mankind. Or that is what he believes. When the ruling class take away the one thing he loves…
