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Tag Archives: Celtic Tiger
The secret ministry of Frost
Author: Nick Lake
As you may have guessed from that picture over on the right hand of the page, one of the main reasons I picked this book up was because of that cover image. It did a brilliant job of attracting my attention as I processed yet another box of books at work. Plus it has crows and ravens, sharks and folklore. And isn’t that enough to get anyone’s attention?
Light, a half-Inuit albino is mourning her father, but she is also uncertain, as his body was never recovered. He went missing from his research station in the Arctic and hasn’t been seen. And then at his funeral some strange things begin to happen. Together with family friend/retainer she leaves her home in Northern Ireland and heads off to the Arctic in an attempt to discover just what happened. Along the way she comes to realise that the folklore she read about is more than just tales as mysterious sideways-blinking men appear and ravens and crows attempt to protect her from them. And is Butler more than he seems to be?
The forest of hands & teeth
Author: Carrie Ryan
I think that one of the main reasons I picked this book up was because of that title; The forest of hands & teeth it just seems so evocative somehow. And the blurb itself sounded vaguely interesting; “In Mary’s world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent.” Continue reading
A swift, pure cry
Author: Siobhan Down ISBN: 9780099488163 DDC: 823.92 LibraryThing | Wikipedia | Siobhan Dowd Trust The place brought to mind a sinking ship. Wood creaked on the floor, across the pews, up in the gallery. Around the walls, a fierce March … Continue reading
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Tagged 6 Stars, A swift pure cry, An Infamous Army, Celtic Tiger, coming of age, Kerry Babies, pregancy, teenage pregnancy
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The Ask and the Answer
Author: Patrick Ness
Chaos Walking #2
Okay, so I loved and adored the first book in this series, even with its horrible cliff-hanger of an ending. Luckily enough I had this one waiting at work, so I didn’t have long to wait before I found out about what happened next. If you haven’t read the first book you shouldn’t read this one. Just don’t. Put the book down and go look for The Knife of Never Letting Go, you really won’t have a clue what is going on if you don’t.
Just a word of warning, there are *mild* spoilers in this review.
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Author: Patrick Ness ISBN: 9781406310252 DDC: 813.6 LibraryThing ; Wikipedia[1] Chaos Walking # 1 The first thing you find out when your dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say. I wasn’t too convinced that … Continue reading
Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow
From the new glass bridge which spanned the inscrutable waters of the Grand Canal, the tram purred downhill and glided gently into the heart of the city.
It was the opening of this book that persuaded me to buy it. The way Ní Duibhne pokes fun at that certain class of Dublin people. It made me smile, but because I knew that there really are people who think that way. Or at least there used to be, now with the demise of the Celtic Tiger maybe there are less of them than there once were.
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Dragonhaven
I keep having these conversations with Dad.
I’m at my computer. He says, “What are you doing?” I mutter something, because the screen has a lot of squiggles on it so he already knows what I’m doing.
Jake has grown up at the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies. It is one of the last refuges of the only real Dragon, the Draco australiensis and a host of other creatures. But conserving the dragons isn’t everyone’s idea of the right thing to do. Plenty of people think that the day dragons go extinct just can’t come soon enough. But one day Jake comes across a dying female dragon, and the poacher she has just killed, and her one remaining baby dragon.
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Tagged 7 Stars, Celtic Tiger, coming of age, Dragonhaven, dragons, dusk, first person narrator, Fox Swallow Scarecrow, quick read
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The Awakening
Book #1 in The Vampire Diaries series ISBN: 0061020001 September 4 Dear Diary, Something awful is going to happen today I don’t know why I wrote that. It’s crazy. According to the blurb on the back of this book, this … Continue reading
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Tagged boy meets girl, Celtic Tiger, love triangles, The Awakening, The Vampire Diaries, vampires
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The Outsiders
ISBN: 0006722253 I decided to reread this after hearing that the film has been recut and rereleased. The Outsiders is one of those classic YA books. Although I never read it at school I think it might be on one … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic Tiger, classic, coming of age, gangs, prejudice, The Outsiders
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Lireal
ISBN: 0007137338 #2 in the Sabriel ‘verse This is the sequal to Sabriel, and begins fourteen years after those events. The main star is, as the title suggests Lirael. She celebrates her 14th birthday as the story starts, and we … Continue reading
