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Book Review: Sleeping Giants
Sleeping Giants is the first book in the Themis Files series. The uncovering of a giant hand leads to the formation of a team who uncover more parts all across the world. Continue reading
Book review: War for the Oaks
War for the Oaks was the book the kicked off the urban fantasy genre. We follow Eddi McCandry, a musician from Minneapolis, who finds herself chosen by the Seelie Court (read: fairies) to help make their war with the Unseelie Court a ‘mortal’ one. Continue reading
Book review: The Night Circus
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern revolves around two magicians (for lack of a better word) pitted against each other in a game when they were both young children. Celia by her father and Marco by the man who picked him out of an orphanage – the mysterious Mr A H. Continue reading
Book review: Stealing Snow
Oh my god, what a terrible book. The plot, characters, pacing and world was terrible. Plot of Snow by Danielle Paige: Snow, a patient in a mental hospital, is in love with a boy named Bale (likewise a patient). BUT. She’s actually a princess in another world. Yes. And he gets kidnapped and taken to this … Continue reading
Book review: A Closed and Common Orbit
Blubbers So this is the sequel to Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and it was so good. I think it was better than the first book – though the first book is necessary for this one being so good. Essentially, in the first book you get the world building, you know … Continue reading
Book review: Woman on the Edge of Time
Connie gets trapped in a mental institution but has started to escape to the future with Luciente – however it’s important that Connie fights her real world battles so Luciente’s future can exist at all. Continue reading
Book review: Infomocracy
A smart sci-fi thriller, set in the election year after the world has been divided into micro-democracies. But is the election under threat, and with that threat, the undermining of the entire micro-democracy system? Continue reading
Book review: Super Extra Grande
Jan Amos is veterinarian to large alien creatures. The first mission we find him in the bowels of a giant sea worm, kilometres long, trying to find the bracelet of the wife of a governor. It could be funny but it isn’t really. Continue reading
Book review: A Gathering of Shadows
The Sequel to A Darker Shade of Magic by V E Schwab, we find ourselves in Red London for a wizard’s tournament with our favourite antagonistic couple Kell and Lila. Continue reading
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