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 …
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Lord Blackheart is, as you might suspect from the name, an evil villain. The biggest name in supervillainy! and one day a …
The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston
Green Knowe series #1 Usually Toseland spends the holidays in boarding school, his father and stepmother are in Burma, but on this …
Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas
Reread in April 2015 and it was just as good as I remembered. Original review from 22nd April 2006. ISBN: 0098461560 Trans …
The voice that thunders by Alan Garner
Earlier this year I read The Owl Service by Alan Garner, and I had many many thoughts about it, and I enjoyed …
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 …
The Ransom of Dond by Siobhan Dowd
Illustrated by Pam Smy Darra lives on the island of Inniscaul is a small island off the coast of Eriu, or Ireland. …
The light heart of stone by Tor Roxburgh
Book one in the Promise of Stones series. Fox is a young girl growing up on the Stone Body, a land ruled …
Among Others by Jo Walton
Read for the Once Upon a Time VI challenge Many, many moons ago Carl posted his review of this book. And then …
The lost art of reading by David L. Ulin
It is strange, I’ve often come across media stories on the “decline” of reading as a result of modern technology. Social networks, …
A monster calls by Patrick Ness
Every night Conor O’Malley has the nightmare. Every night. But tonight something is different. Tonight there is a new monster. A new nightmare. And Conor isn’t sure if this is a dream or not. But either way, this is the monster he was fearing. This monster, the yew tree, tells him that it will tell him three stories. And then Conor will tell the monster a story. A true story. And if he doesn’t, then the monster will eat him alive.