The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley
Book 1 in The Worldbreaker Saga Arc received from NetGalley Before I even mention the plot of the book I want to just say that I love this cover. Go on,...
14 June 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
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
Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon
I’m terrible at reading magazines I have discovered. I have a subscription to Apex and I don’t think I’ve read more than one or two stories over the past year. But...
11 February 2014
I am an artist by Marta Altes
The narrator of this picture book is a young boy. He tells us he is an artist. Unfortunately his mother doesn’t always understand, where he sees a lonely carrot she sees...
15 January 2014
Thorn by Intisar Khanani
A retelling of The Goose Girl story. Princess Alyrra has not has a happy life. Growing up in fear of her brother and trying to stay on her mother’s good side....
24 November 2013
Parasite by Mira Grant
Book 1 in the Parasitology series. Sally Mitchell was in a car crash, suffered brain damage, but just as her family were about to agree to switching off the life-support she...
16 November 2013
More Than This by Patrick Ness
Seth is drowning. He isn’t going to survive, there is no out for him. He drowns. But death is not the end, he wakes up in his childhood home in England....
11 November 2013
The Fox and the child dir. by Luc Jacquet
There isn’t really all that much plot to this film. A ten year old girl on her way to school one morning encounters a wild fox. She has never been so...
8 September 2013
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
David Lurie lives a very contained and well-run life. He is a professor in Cape Town, mostly he lectures in communication but he is also allowed to give one course on...
17 August 2013
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