I keep meaning to do these a bit more often, but other stuff often gets in the way and, well, it’s been a long time! But they seem to be popular posts so here’s another one. These are one sentence book reviews for the last 5 books I’ve read at the time of writing. OneContinueContinue reading “One Sentence Book Reviews – Part 3”
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Book Review: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Format: PaperbackPublished: November 5th, 2019Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary Romance Rating: 5/5 Stars If you’ve been following the blog for a bit, it’ll probably come as no surprise that I was really excited to read this. After reading Take a Hint, Dani Brown, I was keen to go back to book 1 and experience The Brown SistersContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert”
Graphic Novel Review: Fables, Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers
By Bill Willingham (Writer), Mark Buckingham (Artist), Craig Hamilton (Artist), Steve Leialoha (Artist), P. Craig Russell (Artist)Format: PaperbackPublished: November 30th, 2004Age: AdultGenre: Urban Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Stars I’m really enjoying these graphic novels. If you’re not familiar, Fables is about fairy tale characters living in the real world. In the fourth volume, the first refugee in centuriesContinueContinue reading “Graphic Novel Review: Fables, Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers”
Book Review: The Hemlock Queen by Hannah F. Whitten
Format: ebookPublished: April 9th, 2024Age: AdultGenre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Stars I loved this. I think sometimes a second book can not-quite-hit in a series. There’s a lot it has to do – continuing the story from the previous book, introducing new elements to keep it a little fresh, raise the stakes and keep you hookedContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Hemlock Queen by Hannah F. Whitten”
Book Review: To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang
Format: HardbackPublished: April 16th, 2024Age: Young AdultGenre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Stars Indulge me for just a moment – I ended up reading this book at the same time I was reading Hannah Whitten’s The Hemlock Queen. They’re not two books I would naturally pair together, but they do compliment one another. Both main characters haveContinueContinue reading “Book Review: To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang”
Book Review: Write Great Dialogue by Irving Weinman
Format: PaperbackPublished: January 1st, 2012Age: AdultGenre: Nonfiction – Reference – Writing Rating: 3/5 Stars This is a writing guide designed to teach you how to write dialogue – it’s not as simple as merely mimicking the way people speak, and it’s a very tricky area of writing. I think Weinman does a good job ofContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Write Great Dialogue by Irving Weinman”
Book Review: Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane
Format: ebookPublished: January 27th, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Nonfiction – Politics Rating: 5/5 Stars Nan Sloane has done an excellent job in detailing, as much as possible, the lives of women who had an impact of politics, before women were even able to have a proper voice within politics. She explores the lives of women – notablyContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane”
Graphic Novel Review: Saga, Volume 10
by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (Illustrator)Publisher: Image ComicsFormat: PaperbackGenre: Sci-FiRelease Date: October 5th, 2022 Rating: 5/5 Stars Reread Reviews: Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3 / Volume 4 / Volume 5 / Volume 6 / Volume 7 / Volume 8 / Volume 9 Every time I think this series cannot possibly break me anymore,ContinueContinue reading “Graphic Novel Review: Saga, Volume 10”
Book Review: Sage and King by Molly Ringle
Format: ebookPublished: May 18th, 2021Age: AdultGenre: Fantasy – Romance Rating: 5/5 Stars Sage and King was a delightful read. Partly inspired by the TV series Merlin, the book features Zaya, a prince who is enough removed from the crown he never expects to wear it, and Col, a young sage who acts as a tutorContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Sage and King by Molly Ringle”
Book Review: Cider Ella by S.T. Lynn
Format: ebookPublished: June 24th, 2016Age: AdultGenre: Fantasy – Romance Rating: 4/5 Stars This was a sweet take on Cinderella, featuring Ella, a trans woman who is forced to go by her deadname and serve her stepmother and sisters following her father’s death. I really liked Ella as a character, and I liked the way theContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Cider Ella by S.T. Lynn”
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