We start the new year with the first of a terrific new series – Lockwood & Co by Jonathan Stroud. This was the Great Middle Grade Reads group’s book of October, and I got it at the end of the
Book Review | A Midsummer Night’s Steampunk by Scott Tarbet
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream revisioned as a steampunk tale? You must be kidding. That was roughly my reaction when I saw this as part of a steampunk/fantasy bundle from Storybundle.com, a wonderful way of getting great ebooks in a
Book Review | Reversal by Jennifer Ellis
There’s an apocalypse, it’s seriously weird, not to say bizarre, and there’s a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic field causing serious disruption, not to say chaos, to civilisation as we know it. An Apocalypse Weird entitled Reversal, then. Not a
Blog Tour – Hotwire by Cindy Hogan
I’m moving into racier territory with this blog tour, but although it’s for older teens and YA – and adults – it looked fun and not too schmaltzy or violent… and judging from the excerpt below, my instincts were right.
Book Review: Death in a Red Canvas Chair by N A Granger
This is not really a cosy mystery, although it starts out that way, but Rhe Brewster, our heroine, turns into a police consultant, so I suppose it could be police procedural after all. What it definitely is, is a well-toned
Book Review: Seed Savers – Lily by S Smith
After my rave review of last year for Seed Savers: Treasure, the first in the series, you might ask, why did I take so long to read this? The answer was quite simply too many other books getting in the
Book Review | Just Add Salt by Jinx Schwartz
This is a book I found through Twitter, probably on one of its free kindle days. It looked like a mad-cap adventure thriller on a boat in Mexico – and that’s what it is! Hetta Coffey is a woman who
Book Review: Fizz & Peppers at the Bottom of the World by M G King
It’s madness. It’s magnificent madness. It’s the most magnificent boomsnickery trollsnuffery madness I’ve ever read. It’s totally clear that if I read the blurb for this book when I first got it (and Amazon tells me I got it on
Book Review: Sinfandel by Gina Cresse
This is a crime novel suitable for mid teens upwards. There’s no sex and no graphic violence but I can’t imagine younger teens would enjoy it (except for the raccoons). Gina Cresse’s Sinfandel is a murder mystery thriller set in
Book Review: A Murder of Crows by Edward Medina
This fast paced, quirky novella holds great promise for further adventures. This is the tale of Belladonna DeRanged and Benjamin Nightthorn, and how in turn they took the pleasant, talented, amusing but broke Otter’s Bizarre Circus through 13 years of
Book Review: Red Hot and Dead by Nora Barker
This is not a children’s book but would be fine for older children and teens. Dr Chris Connery, Director of the Division of Fine Arts at Midstate University, is no stranger to police investigations. But when her Ceramics teacher comes
Book Review: A Year Without Autumn by Liz Kessler
Jenni and Autumn are best friends. They are more than best friends, they are the best friends that could ever be. Two hours apart and there are a million and a half things that have to be said to each