Top Ten 2017
Drumroll please! I’m sure this isn’t the moment you’ve all been waiting for, but I am pleased to reveal my top ten books read in 2017. Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor Nevernight by Jay Kristoff The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts The Fifth Season…
2017 Loose Ends (aka Quickie Reviews)
As the end of the year draws near it’s time to talk about some of the books I never got around to reviewing. I do have some full reviews still left to write but the following books are all personal reads from the last few…
Happiness for Humans
Aiden is an AI designed to be a call centre, but he has escaped the confines of the lab and is now out in the internet. No one must know. Jen has been hired to chat to Aiden, to help him talk more like a…
Seven Days of Us
I try and read at least one festive book in December and this year I chose Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak. It’s not the usual upbeat novel I would choose and it does have some sadness to it. Olivia has been in Liberia…
2018 Books on my Radar
My 2018 wishlist has been growing and growing despite my pledges to read more backlist titles. I obviously can’t keep up so I am sharing them here in order to tempt you instead. What books are you looking forward to next year? January The…
The Lost Plot
The Lost Plot is the fourth book in Genevieve Cogman’s excellent Invisible Library series and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous books. To be honest, she was having fun being Jeanette Smith, Crime Boss. It was much less nerve-racking than being Irene…
The Obelisk Gate
The Obelisk Gate is the second book in the Broken Earth trilogy and therefore this review may contain spoilers for The Fifth Season. After devouring The Fifth Season I was eager to continue Essen’s story and when The Obelisk Gate dropped into my lap via…
Freedom Hospital
Read the World: Syria Freedom Hospital is a mix of fact and fiction, based around an underground Syrian hospital which tends to injured rebels. At the start of the book, it feels like the rebels wanted a peaceful solution to the country’s problems. As time…
Illuminae
If you’ve spent any time around the YA community you’ll have heard of Illuminae. Why did I take so long to read it? I honestly don’t know because it is perfect for me. If you’re not aware, it’s a sort of futuristic epistolary novel, told…
A Gathering of Challenges
Read at Midnight hosts the cutest of reading challenges (remember The Reading Quest?) and this December brings a casual Animal Crossing themed one. I have not been playing the game because I know what a time suck it will be if I start, but that…
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…