The Month That Was… May 2015
If everything’s gone to plan I will now be in California, quite probably jetlagged and surrounded by far too many good food choices. We’re spending a few days in San Francisco before heading down to Santa Cruz. I have a few scheduled posts but the…
Quickie Reviews
The thing with 24 hour readathons is that they’re not very conducive to forming coherent reviews in the aftermath, but I would like to tell you a little about these books which I haven’t managed to review yet. And let’s face it, probably never will…
UK Goodreads Giveaways
Birdy by Jess Vallance 5 copies, UK only Ends 1st July Paperweight by Meg Haston 5 copies, UK only Ends 1st July Charlie Martz and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard 10 copies, UK only Ends 18th June The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild 10…
Life After Life
During the harsh winter of 1910, a baby is born, the cord wrapped around her neck. She dies before she has the chance to live. That same baby is born, this time she lives. She will grow to become Ursula Todd, she will be reborn…
Wild
Twenty-six year-old Cheryl is at rock bottom when she makes the most impulsive decision of her life. She will walk the Pacific Crest Trail. Over 1000 miles of mountainous wilderness, starting in the Mojave Desert heading north towards Washington State. And she will walk alone….
UK Goodreads Giveaways
No Harm Can Come to a Good Man by James Smythe 20 copies, UK only Ends 20th May If You Go Away by Adele Parks 10 copies, UK only Ends 24th May The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett 10 copies, UK only Ends 22nd…
Phoenix Rising
For as long as he has known Toby has called The Phoenix home. A pirate ship sailing the ruined seas of a post-apocalyptic Earth. His father is a wanted man, a scientist who once worked for the government and fled, taking his prize invention with…
The Confectioner’s Tale
At the Patisserie Clermont, Paris’ high society gathers, meeting over delectable creations. A chance encounter with the owner’s daughter gives a young railroad worker a glimpse of a world he had never imagined and now wants very much to be part of. 78 years later,…
UK Goodreads Giveaways
The Followers by Rebecca Wait 20 copies, UK only Ends 2nd June The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi 15 copies, UK + Ireland Ends 21st May Mr Mercedes by Stephen King 20 copies, UK only Ends 15th May The Turning Point by Freya North 25…
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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…