Currently reading ‘Light Matters’ by Vicki Goldberg
Currently reading ‘Light Matters’ by Vicki Goldberg
Padraig Kenny. Chicken House. (352p) ISBN 9781911077657 Follow the ragtag band of mechanicals as they search for Christopher, who has been abducted by someone who wants to discover his deepest secrets. Throughout this gripping adventure, Tin is set in an England of alternative 1930s where mechanicals (robots) are common, there is a huge nod to …
Kendare Blake. Pan Macmillan. (432p) ISBN 9781509804559 Three Dark Crowns is the start of a Y.A. fantasy series by Kendare Blake, and a good start at that, and for once I never got the twist until the end of the book, which leaves us on a massive (almost literally) cliff-hanger of a revelation. Kendare tells …
James O’Brien. Ebury Publishing. (240p) ISBN 9780753553121 This is another book I read absolutely ages ago and have just got around to getting a review out for. During the Brexit debacle I watched James quite a bit on YouTube, finding him funny and astute without being really unkind to people he disagreed with and wanted …
Simon Mockler. Templar Publishing. (256p) ISBN 9781848127654 I received this book in a large packet of Middle Grade books in exchange for an honest review, and honestly it’s taken me ages to write this review as I’ve been so slow in my reading over the last year and a bit. This is the first in …
Megan Hunter. Pan Macmillan. (144p) ISBN 9781509843985 This is the first time I’ve come across the term cli-fi when describing a genre of fiction, I’ve usually classified books I’ve read about climate change disaster as speculative fiction, but cli-fi is much better. The End We Start From follows the female protagonist through a sudden climate …
Dominique Valente. HarperCollins. (304p) ISBN 9780008308407 I’ve had Starfell: Willow Moss and the Lost Day on my TBR for a while, but have eventually got around to reading it, and have regretted the lost time. Dominique Valente gives us a wonderful adventure where Willow Moss discovers that no matter what other people say or think …
David Bainbridge. Francis Lincoln Publishing. (256p) ISBN 9780711252264 I’m a sucker for a beautiful cover, and I just fell in love with this one as soon as I saw it. When it arrived I just dove in and was fascinated by all the charts and illustrations, it was jam-packed. Ranging from very early theories of …