Shadows by Robin McKinley
Read a sample Shadows is set in an alternate world, one where the Newworld has eradicated all magic, and the risks they feel it brings. Magical families have been gene-spliced and...
17 May 2014
Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire
An October Daye novel #1 Reread in May 2014, also for this year’s Once Upon a Time Challenge. And it was just as enjoyable the second time round. Toby has a...
10 May 2014
Triptych by J. M. Frey
When the aliens came it was nothing like the way science fiction and popular culture had predicted it. There was no invasion, instead they were refugees. Their own planet had collapsed,...
3 May 2014
Girl with a pearl earring by Tracy Chevalier
In seventeenth century Holland Griet is about to become a maid. She is sixteen years of age. Her father was blinded in an accident so the family are suffering financially. She...
30 April 2014
The Owl Service by Alan Garner
Alison and Roger have come to Wales on a holiday with their parent and respective step-parent. Roger’s father and Alison’s mother have recently married and in a way this is a...
29 April 2014
Fates : I bring the fire part 4 by C. Gockel
I’m going to say very little about the plot of this book. It is, after all, book four in a series, so you know, spoilers darling. Basically its a mixture of...
26 April 2014
Monsters : I bring the fire part 2 by C. Gockel
I bring the fire Part 21 This book follows on straight from book one, so if you haven’t read that you’ll have no idea what is going on, so go read...
21 April 2014
I bring the fire part 1 : Wolves by C. Gockel
Amy Lewis is travelling home with her little mongrel dog, Fenrir, when she narrowly misses a deer, and flips her car. It is night time, and the road is not exactly...
20 April 2014
Kindred by Octavia Butler
It is 1976 and Dana and her husband have just moved into a new home. They’ve only been married four years, but both now seem to be making it in their...
18 April 2014
Some kind of fairy tale by Graham Joyce
Twenty years ago Tara Martin went missing. She simply went out one day and never came home. Her boyfriend at the time was an obvious suspect. They had rowed before she...
12 April 2014
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
At the end of the nineteen thirties in Germany a little girl travelled with her mother and brother on the train. The children were being sent to live with foster parents....
5 April 2014
The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
Life for Mr and Mrs Dearly and their dogs, Pongo and Misses, is going well. They live near Regent’s Park in London and are very comfortably well off, Mr Dearly having...
29 March 2014
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