Publisher: Bloomsbury YAFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: January 26th, 2021 Rating: 4/5 Stars Reviews for: A Curse So Dark and Lonely / A Heart So Fierce and Broken (Yes I am trying out a banner – I’d love to hear if you like or hate it!) I really wasn’t sure what to expect going into the finalContinueContinue reading “Book Review: A Vow So Bold and Deadly – Brigid Kemmerer”
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Graphic Novel Review: Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Archives Omnibus Vol. 1
Publisher: Titan ComicsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: September 30th, 2015 Rating: 4/5 Stars Every so often, what feels like an extremely long time ago now, I’d pick up the Doctor Who magazine and read about the series, the cast, old episodes I’d never seen. But my favourite part of the magazine was always the comic in theContinueContinue reading “Graphic Novel Review: Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Archives Omnibus Vol. 1”
Book Review: From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back
Publisher: Cornerstone DigitalFormat: MOBIRelease Date: November 12th, 2020 Rating: 3/5 Stars Thank you to Cornerstone for providing me with this ebook via NetGalley. Views remain my own, of course! Some of the stories in this anthology are absolutely excellent. Some…really fall flat. It’s a shame. The first few were good enough I immediately got aContinueContinue reading “Book Review: From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back”
Book Review: The Lights of Prague – Nicole Jarvis
Publisher: Titan BooksFormat: MOBIRelease Date: May 18th, 2021 Rating: 4/5 Stars Domek Myska is a lamplighter in Prague, but his job is more than ensuring the people of Prague have light to guide their way. In a world with pijavica, vampiric creatures stalking the streets, his job is to hunt them down and kill them,ContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Lights of Prague – Nicole Jarvis”
Book Review: Concrete Rose – Angie Thomas
Publisher: Walker BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: January 12th, 2021 Rating: 5/5 Stars On the Come Up Review Is three books too early to call an author one of the greatest of their generation? Because after Concrete Rose, I really think Angie Thomas is. And she’s apparently working on a Fantasy novel, which has made me soContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Concrete Rose – Angie Thomas”
Book Review: What Beauty There Is – Cory Anderson
Publisher: PenguinFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: April 6th, 2021 Rating: 3/5 Stars Blog Tour Review For those who caught my stop on the blog tour for this book, you’ll know that at the time of posting I hadn’t actually finished the whole book. Well, now I have, so I thought best to provide a sort of ‘secondContinueContinue reading “Book Review: What Beauty There Is – Cory Anderson”
Graphic Novel Review: iZombie, Volume 3: Six Feet Under and Rising
Publisher: VertigoFormat: TPBRelease Date: February 1st, 2012 Rating: 5/5 Stars Volume 1 Review / Volume 2 Review Once again, as much as I love the iZombie TV show, I am slightly disappointed we don’t get to see this on the screen. This being Gwen’s ‘adventures’ as a zombie, helping the dead complete unfinished business, withContinueContinue reading “Graphic Novel Review: iZombie, Volume 3: Six Feet Under and Rising”
Book Review: Malice – Heather Walter
Publisher: Del Ray UKFormat: MOBIRelease Date: April 13th, 2021 Rating: 5/5 Stars This book deserves every single star, plus more. Heather Walter takes fairy tales and tweaks them, not so much they’re unrecognisable, but enough to separate them from the Disney versions we know and love. Malice is beautiful and dark and powerful, much likeContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Malice – Heather Walter”
Body of Stars – Laura Maylene Walter
Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonFormat: MOBIRelease Date: March 18th, 2021 Rating: 4/5 Stars [Please note, due to the topics in this book and recent events, this review contains discussions of rape culture, sexual assault, and the abduction of women] At times, Body of Stars isn’t an easy read, with many of the moments Celeste experiences feelingContinueContinue reading “Body of Stars – Laura Maylene Walter”
The Lost Apothecary – Sarah Penner
Publisher: Legend PressFormat: MOBIRelease Date: March 2nd, 2021 Rating: 5/5 Stars Told in dual timelines, The Lost Apothecary explores the lives of three different women, their lives connected over the centuries by a single unlucky vial. In 1791, Nella serves the women in her community, issuing medicines where needed, but more often selling poisons, forContinueContinue reading “The Lost Apothecary – Sarah Penner”
Unwrapping Words 