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 Side Up is the second…
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 by a notorious matriarch of…
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 a year or two. When…
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 on opposite sides of a…
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 part of the show? The…
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 by Michael Lark. It contains…
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 Ideal. In work and social…
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 job, delving into the technology…
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 a little two bed house,…
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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…