currently reading ‘The Offset’ by Calder Szewczak
currently reading ‘The Offset’ by Calder Szewczak
I’d been waiting on The Promise Witch forever, or that’s how it felt as the first two in the trilogy were soooo good. From the start I realised that I was really going to enjoy this adventure with Mup and Crow, we see old enemies return and new friends step up. There were some solid …
Leslye Walton. Walker Books. (288p) ISBN 9781406373509 I am just so shallow that it was the cover that sold The Price Guide to the Occult to me. But it was worth it, The Price Guide to the Occult tells the story of Rona Blackburn and her descendants who live on Anathema Island. There is a …
Neal Schusterman. Walker Books. (448p) ISBN 9781406379242 Scythe is set not far into our(?) future where death has been conquered. Want to look and feel 21? Get your body clock set so you are physically younger than your grandchildren. Science and society have progressed to such a stage that there are no famines or diseases, …
The Little Grey Girl is the second in Celine Kiernan’s Wild Magic Trilogy and, if anything, is scarier than the first. Again I was hooked from page one, following this new adventure of Mup and her family in Witches Borough. The evil witch has departed but what has been left behind? While Mum is trying …
Neal Shusterman. Walker Books. (528p) ISBN 9781406379532 Now, it’s not unknown but it’s rare, very rare that I rate a sequel higher than the first book in a series, but I really loved Thunderhead, the sequel to Scythe by Neal Shusterman. We follow on from the incidents in the first book and see where Rowan …
It’s been a really difficult time for me with reading. I’ve not been able to concentrate on anything fiction for a couple of month, really only able to read books related to my tabletop gaming; Warhammer, Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu… This has caused me some anxiety as I feel I really should be …
Angie Thomas. Walker Books. (464p) ISBN 9781406372151 What can you say about a book that has won so many awards, been featured in so many blogs, has a film coming out and has had so many words written about it already? The only thing I can add is that I love it, though it was …