Hello Humans! How are we all doing? Coping? Me too. On the bright side, there's plenty of reading to be done and I'm actually writing the reviews to boot! I read the first book in this duology, Mask of Shadows, back in January of 2019 and really enjoyed it, particularly because this was one of the... Continue Reading →
Hello Humans! It’s been a hot minute, hasn’t it… But I’ve got a WHOLE LOAD of reviews coming your way in the coming weeks, and I’m hoping that I can get back into the blogging swing of things. If you’re missing me in the meantime or I drop off the face of the earth again... Continue Reading →
Hello Humans! So I continue to SMASH through my review copies for early March (a trend that surely will not last) and I’m back with another review for a book that will be emerging on shelves on the fifth of March. There Will Come A Darkness is a multiple POV fantasy book with a whole... Continue Reading →
Hello Humans! A Memory Called Empire was a book that sort of passed me by when it first came out. I wasn’t totally sold on the whole science fiction thing at the time (oh how times change) and I couldn’t quite work out what it was all about based on brief glimpses of the cover. ... Continue Reading →
Hello Humans! Ever wondered what happened to that half-finished novel that you sometimes think about finishing? Well, imagine if you discovered it went to a library full of similarly unfinished books that just so happened to be housed in hell. Add in a grumpy librarian, a muse, a dubious hero and a demon who is more... Continue Reading →
Hello Humans! What’s the longest you’ve ever stuck with a series that didn’t grip you? Where you kept picking up sequels despite knowing you were never going to find a new favourite? Or are you one of those incredibly self-aware people who can rest knowing they read book one and don’t need to pick up... Continue Reading →
Hello Humans! Today I’m reviewing The Sisters Grimm, the new book from Menna van Praag - an author whose work I hadn’t read before. But I’m a sucker for any book that promises a fairytale element so blindly I requested this book hoping for a fun story of sisterhood and maybe a storytelling element. You... Continue Reading →
Hello Humans! There’s a specific fantasy trope that I think I will love until the day I die. I’m speaking, of course, of what I like to think of as ‘ballgown fantasy’, the kind of books that spend as much time describing the beautiful dresses the main character will be wearing to the next social... Continue Reading →
Hello Humans! Be honest, when was the last time you *blasted* through a book (that wasn't a re-read). As a fairly fast natural reader I don't really measure things in the actual time it takes me to read them, and more in how long they feel. Does that make sense? You can read two books... Continue Reading →
Hello Humans! It feels like a long while since I reviewed a book with dragons in - I think it would have been when I reviewed The Name of All Things back in November. I only have so many months I can go without getting my fix of winged lizards so I was excited to read Eoin Colfer's Highfire... Continue Reading →
Hello Humans! We’re all familiar, I would think, with the concept of ‘a book-lover’s book’. These emerge fairly frequently onto bookshop shelves, almost always with gorgeous covers and exclusive editions to tempt us bookworms into parting with our hard-earned cash. More often than not I end up feeling a little disappointed by books like these,... Continue Reading →
Hello Humans! It’s finally time to review one of my most anticipated releases of 2019 - Brandon Sanderson’s Starsight. I had read Skyward the year before and had been eagerly anticipating the sequel so the moment my preorder came in I was down at the bookshop clutching that new hardback to my chest! But could... Continue Reading →
