The Monstrous Child by Francesca Simon
A stunning, operatic, epic drama, like no other. Meet Hel, an ordinary teenager – and goddess of the Underworld. Why is life so unfair? Hel tries to make the best of...
16 June 2016
Way down dark by James Smythe
The Australia trilogy : book 1 There’s one truth on Australia: You fight or you die. Usually both. Seventeen-year-old Chan’s ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search...
4 June 2016
Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell
Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc,...
10 May 2016
Cold Steel by Kate Elliott
Book three in the Spiritwalker trilogy. Short, totally spoiler-free review is “aahhhhh, read it!” but three words may not be enough to persuade everyone. So to that I’ll add that this...
1 May 2016
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
The Clockwork Century ; book 1 Sixteen years ago the city of Seattle was turned into a virtually uninhabitable wasteland. In an attempt to develop a mining machine Leviticus Blue created...
22 April 2016
The Iron Ghost by Jen Williams
The Copper Cat trilogy # 2 The Iron Ghost is an entertaining mixture of dragon’s daughters, demons, mages, and evil, and not forgetting the action-packed adventure either. Story-wise, it takes place...
8 April 2016
Hild by Nicola Griffith
Book 1 of The Light of the World trilogy. The world is always changing, but Britain in the seventh century was a time of huge upheaval in society. Christianity is beginning...
17 January 2016
Black Wolves by Kate Elliott
book 1 in The Black Wolves trilogy. First up, the blurb-y bit, stolen from Goodreads because I cannot condense what this book is about any better than they did : An...
11 November 2015
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge would not be regarded by most people as a nice woman. She is stern. Unforgiving. The scariest teacher in the local high school. Her husband is almost her exact...
9 November 2015
Rolling in the deep by Mira Grant
Part of my RIP reading The Imagine Network[ref]think the SyFy network[/ref] has decided to investigate the legend of the mermaid. They’ve recently discovered just how lucrative fictional-documentaries can be. So they...
9 September 2015
Cold Magic by Kate Elliott
Book 1 in the Spiritwalker series Catherine Barahal is an orphan. Her mother and father died and she came to live with her uncle’s family. Herself and her cousin Bee are...
23 August 2015
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