Children of blood and bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Legacy of Orïsha #1 I added this book to Mount TBR back in 2018, but it took it being nominated for Not-a-Hugo-but-the-Lodestar to get me to read it. Back then Ana...
13 August 2019
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The call by Peadar Ó Guilín
Grey Land #1 Ireland has been cut off from the rest of the world. No ships, no planes. No email contact, not even radio waves make it in or out of...
5 August 2019
Beneath the sugar sky by Seanan McGuire
Wayward Children #3 So usually I’ve never have read this without starting at number 1 in the series. But the description says stand alone, and it was on the Hugo shortlist...
4 August 2019
Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher
I just don’t know how Ursula Vernon, aka T. Kingfisher, does it. Every single book/story by her I’ve read I’ve loved, and usually read far too quickly as I try to...
4 August 2019
The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections by Tina Connolly
I don’t think I would have started reading this short story were it not for the fact that it is on the Hugo shortlist. I have to say I found the...
31 July 2019
The calculating stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Lady Astronaut ; 1 I’ve heard a lot of positive feedback about Mary Robinette Kowal, but the only thing by her I’ve ever read is a short story, and that...
31 July 2019
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
It has been years since I’ve read a book by Novik. I read her Temeraire way back in 2006, and was a big fan until I sort of drifted out around...
14 July 2019
Ardulum : first don by J. S. Fields
Ardulum book one I can’t quite remember where or why I picked this book up. I would guess I saw it mentioned on twitter and forgot to tag it so the...
13 July 2019
Ghost wall by Sarah Moss
I first saw mention of this book on Tor.com which described it as a book that leads us onto the muddy, bloodstained road that Folk Horror normally follows, and then finds...
4 July 2019
Centurion dir. by Neil Marshall
Writ & Dir: Neil Marshall
I love and adore Dog Soldiers. And The Decent was pretty damn good too Of course Doomsday was utterly preposterous but you win some, you lose some. And I was still prepared to take a chance on Neil Marshall, especially when the story is about Roman soldiers on the run in the second century. I mean it had to be better than King Arthur, right?
4 July 2019
June round up
Happy July everyone. Here’s hoping you get the weather you wish for this summer. Unless you are in an area of winter at this time, in that case, here’s hoping it...
3 July 2019
The girl with the dragon heart by Stephanie Burgis
Tales from the Chocolate Heart ; 2 I’ve been meaning to read this book ever since I heard it was coming out, but it has taken me a while to get...
29 June 2019
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