Top Ten 2016
Once again, I feel vindicated in waiting until the last day of the year to announce my favourite books because I have read two corkers this week! In no particular order, my top ten books read in 2016… A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky…
Get Ready for #Discworldathon 2017
Fancy a reading thing for next year without too much commitment? Love Terry Pratchett or just want to know what Discworld is all about? Want to just see how many times I typo it as Discoworld? Bex @ An Armchair By The Sea is hosting…
When We Collided
This is where I am, somewhere between the night’s total darkness and the light’s utter brilliance. Vivi thinks Verona Cove is perfect. She’s spending the summer in this Californian town with her mother and she’s just found the perfect project; Jonah. She sees the sadness…
A Christmas Cornucopia
Christmas is a funny old time of year, where we do some odd things and no one really knows why. Never fear, Mark Forsyth is here to explain some of our festive traditions, where they came from and why Christmas carols rarely make sense. If…
The Burning Page
The Burning Page is the third book in Genevieve Cogman‘s Invisible Library series and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous books. “Someone out there wants to kill you.” It was rather sad that Irene’s first reaction was not so much shock as…
Top Ten Books I’m Looking Forward To For The First Half Of 2017
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I’ve not been paying too much attention to next year’s releases, so I’ve had to sneak in some books that aren’t out until July to make up numbers. What are you excited to read…
Lying About Last Summer
Last summer Skye’s sister died in the family swimming pool. This summer she is attending a summer camp, one specifically designed to help teens deal with their grief. When she starts receiving messages from someone pretending to be her sister, Skye doesn’t know what to…
Versailles
Versailles is the home of the Baer family, a 100-room mega mansion built by the CEO of a prolific social media company. His daughter, Missy, has gone missing. She’s deleted her profile and gone off the grid. Her twin brother tries to track her down…
Illumicrate: One Year On
So Illumicrate has been running for a whole year now and early subscribers got an extra thank you gift in November’s box. When it started there really wasn’t much choice in the UK book subscription box market but it seems to have exploded since. Illumicrate…
Thin Air
In 1935 the summit of Kangchenjunga in the Himalayas remained unreached. Stephen Pearce joins his brother, Kits, as the expedition’s medic as they follow in the footsteps of Lyell’s disastrous 1907 attempt. But on the eve of their descent, the only other survivor warns Stephen…
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…