Genuine Fraud
Genuine Fraud is so Lockhart. I suppose it’s a psychological thriller, something I tend to steer clear of these days but I gave it a go because I just love Lockhart’s writing style. It does also manage to avoid some of the cliches of the…
Far From You
Far From You follows Sophie who has become addicted to prescription medication following a car crash that left her in constant pain. Her life is wrapped up with Mina and Trev, brother and sister, the two people she loves most in the world. Mina likes…
The Potions Diaries: Going Viral
Going Viral is the third and final book in the Potion Diaries trilogy and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous books. I’m a little bit sad that the Potion Diaries have come to an end, it’s been such a fun trilogy. I…
Top Ten: Autumn TBR
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I am pretty dreadful at sticking to TBR lists so this is really ten recent or forthcoming releases I have some hope of reading by the end of this year. Links go to Goodreads….
Tower of Dawn
Tower of Dawn is part of the Throne of Glass series and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous books. When I first heard that Sarah J Maas was writing a book just about Chaol I was pretty excited. He was one of…
Akata Witch
There is a lot to love about Akata Witch so it was a bit frustrating that the story didn’t get going until really half way through. Sunny discovers she is a Leopard Person later than most of her kind do. She’s always been an outsider,…
Quest Complete!
Hosted by Read at Midnight, character art by CW @ Read, Think, Ponder. Last month I signed up for The Reading Quest and I had high hopes of doing more than one quest. Hah! Well today is the last day and I have just finished…
It’s Ninja Book Swap Time!
I’m sure most of you know by now that I’ve taken over Ninja Book Swap from Bex. If you haven’t already, go follow @ninjabookswap on Twitter to keep up-to-date and get gift ideas. Sign-ups close 23rd September so don’t leave it too late if you’d…
The Radium Girls
After radium was discovered by the Curies in 1898, it was considered a wonder chemical, curing cancer, glowing in the dark and invigorating the health of those who imbibed it. As we know today, radium is radioactive and incredibly dangerous. In 1920s America, two factories…
The Fifth Season
The Fifth Season is the best fantasy I’ve read in a long time, it’s just outstanding. If you’re interested in geology and seismic activity as well as epic fantasy, this is the series for you! I had only really heard about N.K. Jemisin in relation…
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…