Subway | Palliatopia is a new YA book from S W Lothian, and looks like it could run into at least a sequel. I got an ARC from the author, who was one of the most inspirational of the authors
Book Review | I Am Thunder by Muhammad Khan
I Am Thunder is a teen/ya book I received from NetGalley last year. I am trying to reduce the number of ARCs I take, but there are so many temptations that come my way it’s hard to resist. At one
MG or not MG? My Book Review question
MG or not MG – a question that came up recently for two books intended for tweens and young teens. Okay, the older end of MG, but still. We often discuss what makes a book suitable for ‘middle grade’ readers
Book Review | Abducted Life by Patricia Josephine
I featured Abducted Life in a launch party last autumn, and took advantage of the special offer on the book. I don’t often read YA, but this one was special, as you can tell from the opening chapter/excerpt I posted
Book Review | Pair Alleles by Jennifer Ellis
Pair Alleles is book 4 in the wonderfully mind-bending Derivatives of Displacement series by Jennifer Ellis. We follow twins Abbey and Caleb, who are both ‘gifted’ – Abbey starts the series at around age 12 studying with the 16-18 year old
Book Launch | Abducted Life by Patricia Josephine
I’m very happy to join in the launch party for the latest by Patricia Josephine (aka Patricia Lynne) ABDUCTED LIFE. Blurb Savannah Janowitz’s perfect life was destroyed the night she and her boyfriend vanished without a trace. When she reappears
Book Review | The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr
This was a Net Galley book I received before Christmas which launched on Thursday (12th January). The blurb The original blurb I saw was: You always remember your first kiss. Flora remembers nothing else… “I look at my hands. One
Book Review | The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
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 | The Vanished Knight by M. Gerrick
I won this book during the Realms-Faire last year, and read it in the summer. Sorry to have taken so long to get around to the review, but here it is now. The Vanished Knight (The War of Six Crowns
Book Review | A Grave Tree by Jennifer Ellis
It was the launch of Pair Alleles, book 4 in this Derivatives of Displacement series by Jennifer Ellis, on 19 September, that prompted me to catch up with book 3. You can read my reviews of A Pair of Docks and A
Book Review | A Quill Ladder by Jennifer Ellis
The second in Jennifer Ellis’s mind-boggling Derivatives of Displacement series is a worthy successor to the first. Having discovered that the strange stones take them to the future… and that multiple futures exist, Abbey, her twin Caleb, older brother Simon
Book Review Round-up
Since the Tackle TBR challenge, I’ve had a slowdown in my reading rate. But there were a few books I hadn’t reviewed before that challenge started, and with the Book v Movie last week, I felt the need to catch
Book Review | Wind Catcher by Jeff Altabef and Erynn Altabef
I received a free ebook of Wind Catcher as part of a MDBR Book Review Blast. I understood it was an upper MG fantasy, which is stretching what I think is appropriate, and I’d classify it as YA with a young
Book Review | The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
This Discworld novel by the late great Sir Terry Pratchett was selected as Book of the Month for May by the Goodreads Great Middle Grade Reads Book. I tried hard to finish it in the month, so you may have
Book Review | The Emperor’s Edge (Book 1) by Lindsay Buroker
One of the disadvantages of getting the first three books of the Emperor’s Edge series in a collection is that it doesn’t count as a book read towards my Goodreads total yet! I got this set of three as part