7 April 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: detective & mystery, sff
Setting: California, contemporary
9 Stars
5 Comments
An October Daye novel #2 Read for the Once Upon a Time VI challenge October Daye is a changeling. Her mother is Amandine of the Daoine Sidhe, and her father was a mortal man. She works as a private investigator … Continue reading
2 April 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: contemporary, USA - San Francisco
9 Stars
5 Comments
An October Daye novel #1 Read for the Once Upon a Time VI challenge In 1995 October Daye made a mistake. Trailing a “bad guy” she was found out. She spent the next fourteen years as a fish. That is … Continue reading
5 March 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: detective & mystery, thriller
Setting: contemporary, London
9 Stars
2 Comments
Joe Spork is mild mannered clockmaker. He wns and runs a shop fixing clockwork devices, from clocks to Victorian dirty toys. He doesn’t make a profit, in fact, he barely scrapes by. But he is determined to be sensible and … Continue reading
19 February 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: literary fiction, sff
Setting: contemporary
5 Stars
4 Comments
Teenage boys are going missing in Innertown. Where they go and what happens to them, nobody knows. Some say that they have runaway, escaping the town with its pollution, disease, death and lack of a future. Others say that no … Continue reading
5 January 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: fiction
Setting: contemporary, Ireland
1 Star
3 Comments
With the demise of the Celtic Tiger and the onset of the “economic doom and gloom” so popular in the media at the moment the young people of Ireland looked at their country with hopelessness. Some decided to emigrate, but … Continue reading
4 January 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: psychological fiction
Setting: Arctic, contemporary, Norway
9 Stars
4 Comments
It is summer time on the island of Kvaloya, the time of the midnight sun. And Mats Sigfridsson has just drowned. Soon after his brother Harald also drowns. How could they both have drowned on such a calm, peaceful sea? … Continue reading
20 December 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: contemporary, USA
6 Stars
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Okay, first off the cover to this is awful. Really, it is. And second of all, I did have huge problems with this book. But I’ll get to them later, first off lets re-cap!. Faythe Sanders is not your average … Continue reading
22 October 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: Juv/YA, sff
Setting: contemporary, New York
6 Stars
5 Comments
Mythology and Reality collide! So the blurb on the back of this book tell me. The mythical winged stallion Pegasus crash lands on a rooftop in modern day New York, fleeing a battle which has destroyed much of Olympus. Emily, … Continue reading
15 October 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: Juv/YA, sff
Setting: contemporary, heaven
6 Stars
2 Comments
Imagine that God was a teenage boy, and a spoiled, sulky, sex-crazed one at that. One who became god because his mother won the job gambling. Now imagine that every time he falls in love, lust might be a better … Continue reading
27 September 2011
Cast: Frank Grillo, Jennifer Morrison, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Tom Hardy
Script: Anthony Tambakis, Cliff Dorfman, Gavin O'Connor
Genre: drama, sport
Setting: contemporary, USA
9 Stars
2 Comments
The opening scenes of Warrior feature The National’s Start a war and a character listening to Moby Dick. Not what you may expect when going to see a film about mixed martial arts fighters beating the crap out of one … Continue reading