Reap the Wind
Reap the Wind is the 7th book in the Cassie Palmer series and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous books. On the brink of a supernatural war, Pythia Cassie Palmer has more important things on her mind. Time is running out to…
This is Where it Ends
10:00 The principal finishes welcoming the entire student body to a new semester. 10:02 The students get up to leave the auditorium. 10:03 The auditorium doors won’t open. 10:05 Someone starts shooting. This is Where it Ends is a fast paced, page-turner, with tragedy at…
Wolf by Wolf
The world is wrong. I’m just doing my part to fix it. It’s been over 10 years since the Nazis won WWII. 18-year-old Yael has one mission, to kill Hitler. The only way she can get close enough is to take the place of Adele…
The Masked City
The Masked City is the sequel to The Invisible Library and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous book. When Irene’s assistant Kai goes missing from an alternate London, the Librarian soon discovers he’s been kidnapped. An action that could bring forth a…
Spectacles
I knew from an early age I wasn’t cut out for sport. I successfully managed the carb loading, so I was 50 per cent of the way of the way there, but the bit after that, the running and jumping bit, just bored the tits…
Quickie Reviews
The Haunting of Hill House was my Halloween read this year, even though I didn’t read much of it on the actual day. Something I love about books from this sort of period is the amount of booze consumed in a casual sort of way….
The first Illumicrate has landed!
Illumicrate is a new bookish subscription box started by Daphne of Winged Reviews. She’s done a wonderfully professional job with the first box. I’m sure they’ll be plenty of unboxing videos around but just let me say it was obvious a lot more care had…
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Some problems are bigger than the end of the world. With the end of school looming, it is Mikey’s last chance to tell Henna how he feels. He’s not one of the Indie kids, the chosen ones who always seem to be battling something. This…
Carrying Albert Home
When Elsie gives her husband Homer the ultimatum “it’s me or the alligator”, the couple find themselves on a journey from West Virginia to Florida in a 1925 Buick convertible with an alligator and a rooster on the back seat. With America in the midst…
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…