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...
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...
10 May 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...
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....
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...
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...
20 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....
12 April 2014
What makes this book so great by Jo Walton
My first non-fiction book of 2014! And it is a book all about books. The best sort of book ;) I would consider myself a sci-fi...
10 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...
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...
29 March 2014
Once Upon a Time VIII
Yesterday was March 21st, which for many people means the start of spring. Here in Ireland spring starts on February 1st, and we already have lambs...
22 March 2014
A local habitation by Seanan McGuire
An October Daye novel #2 A another reread for this year’s OUaT challenge, originally read for the Once Upon a Time VI challenge October Daye is...
25 May 2012