Geek Girl: Sunny Side Up
How did Harriet Manners – Destroyer of International Fashion Shows, Knocker-Over of Models, Sitter-Downer on Catwalks and Compiler of Compound Nouns – get selected to participate in Paris Couture Fashion Week? Yay, another Geek Girl, albeit a bite-sized novella! Sunny…
Win Hope and Red!
In a fracturing empire spread across savage seas, two people find a common cause. HOPE, the lone survivor of a village massacred by the emperor’s forces, is secretly trained as a warrior and instrument of vengeance. RED, an orphan adopted…
The Hidden Oracle
Apollo has upset Zeus again, he’s just not sure why. Cast down to earth as a mortal teenage boy, Apollo must find a way to get back his godly powers, and looks, perhaps he needs to serve a demigod for…
This Savage Song
Twelve years since the Phenomenon, when violence started taking shape, and V-City fell apart. Six years since the truce that put it back together, not as one city, but two. Kate Harker and August Flynn come from powerful, rival families…
The Last One
I loved the concept of The Last One; what if you were taking part in a reality show and something happened to the outside world, something big, and you were oblivious? What if you assumed everything you heard was just…
Lazarus: Family
I hadn’t reached my graphic novel quota on the last day of May so I delved into my Humble Bundle hodgepodge of comics for something quick and pulled out the first volume of Lazarus, story by Greg Rucka and art…
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Well, Quiet was quite an illuminating read. I read most of this thinking this is me. We introverts have long been thought of as being something less than our extroverted peers, living under what this book explains as the Extrovert…
False Hearts
This is the first time I have ever been alone. Taema and Tila spent their whole childhoods together, joined at the heart, but when they are separated, more than their bodies go different ways. Taema works hard at her respectable…
The Month That Was… May 2016
+ International Giveaway Gah, buying a house is stressful! We have a moving date now, so things on the blog will likely be a bit quiet for a while. We are moving to the edge of the New Forest, into…