The Gilded Wolves
Behind the doors of the lavish L’Eden hotel, hotelier Séverin is working towards claiming his true inheritance, denied to him but the patriarchs of the Houses of Paris. He’s a treasure hunter, thief and orphan. The Order of Babel hoards artefacts, forged with magical properties,…
Origins: How the Earth Made Us
Humans are a product of the Earth we live on. In Lewis Dartnell’s latest book, he explores human evolution out of the forests, into the savannah and across the globe. What made us the dominant species we are today? The narrative threads of history and…
Germ Assisted Weekly Update
IMWAYR is hosted by The Book Date. The seasonal viruses finally got me this week, I took a couple of days off work and having nothing better to do in bed, I read a bit more than usual. I’m feeling better now, although I’ve been…
Red Snow
Red Snow is the sequel to Dark Pines and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous book. After Dark Pines helped me get the hang of audiobooks, I knew I had to listen to the sequel, Red Snow. I liked revisiting Gavrik and…
The House of Shattered Wings
In an alternate Paris, fallen angels rule the city. The Great War left its mark on the city, leaving the Seine polluted and grand landmarks in ruins. When Phllipe is present when Isabel falls, he is drawn into House Silverspires, who live surrounded by the…
How to Feed Your Audiobook Habit
So you want to get into audiobooks but not sure the best way to access them? Already bitten by the bug but finding it expensive? Let me share with you everything I’ve tried out, as a UK listener. One completely free way of listening to…
Another Week Gone (IMWAYR)
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by The Book Date. I’ve been doing a bit of blog housekeeping this week, including making my mobile template a little less rubbish. Google short links seem to have stopped working already, so I’m down to manual…
The Last
Jon is attending a conference in a Swiss hotel the day the world ends. As nuclear war breaks out, a group of twenty survivors take shelter in the hotel. This is Jon’s account. It didn’t seem as real as the headlines. Maybe we had all…
On My Radar: February
What are publishers doing to us? I count a whopping 24 books coming out in February that I’d read if time travel was a reality. I’ve marked the ones I’ve actually pre-ordered with *. Dates are based on UK print editions (unless US only) but…
Hag-Seed
Felix loses his job as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre, when his ambitious interpretation of The Tempest goes to far. Exiled from his old life, he takes a job in a prison, teaching inmates to perform theatre. When an opportunity to take revenge on…
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…