The Month That Was… July 2015
+ International Giveaway I’m pretty pleased with the mix of titles I read in July, although I am missing some non-fiction. After a bit of a dip, this month has brought so many great reads. I think it’s easy to get stuck in a rut,…
Annihilation
By the time we were ready to cross the border, we knew everything… and we knew nothing. Area X has been controlled by the Southern Reach agency for thirty years. All anyone knows about the Event is that it was a military experiment gone wrong…
The Dead House
Carly and Kaitlyn Johnson share the same body. Carly gets the day and Kaitlyn gets the night. Carly was treated for dissociative identity disorder, presumed to be triggered by the death of her parents. Twenty-five years ago the school they attended burned down and Carly…
All Involved
In 1992, when the white cops who beat Rodney King were acquitted of assault and walked away scot free, racial tensions in Los Angeles flared and triggered six days of rioting. In the South Central neighbourhood of Lynwood, another story plays out, telling the untold…
Night School: Endgame
Endgame is the final book in the Night School series and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous books. Why couldn’t they have even a day to be normal kids in a normal school, with their A levels the biggest obstacle ahead of…
Win Adventure Time Art Book!
Any fan of Adventure Time’s wonderful post-apocalyptic world will fall head over heels for the second volume of Adventure Time: The Original Cartoon Title Cards. This stunning book features the complete set of distinctive title cards from seasons three and four of the worldwide cult…
One
Grace and Tippi are conjoined twins. This year, with their parents unable to afford home schooling any longer, they are going to high school. Prepared for cruelty and stares, they are not prepared for friendship. Or an impossible decision that will change everything. One is…
UK Goodreads Giveaways
Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb 25 copies, UK + Ireland Ends 30th July Half a War by Joe Abercrombie 40 copies, UK + Ireland Ends 26th July Beside Myself by Ann Morgan 5 copies, UK + Australia Ends 29th July Monsters by Emerald Fennell 20…
To Kill a Mockingbird
It’s never an insult to be called what someone thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you. Unlike half the country, I was not forced to read To Kill a Mockingbird at school and with…
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…