I’m not normally a fan of novellas but The Assassin’s Blade is a great collection of stories bridging the gap of from when Celaena Sardothien was Adarlan’s Assassin to her time in the salt mines. One of the highlights of this book is you can be new to the Throne of Glass series or a …
There’s a lot I loved about Emnity. It’s set in an exciting world where most of the population was wiped out sixty years ago. Only the strong survive and those remaining are at war with each other. The characters are interesting. Nate and Hermia are taken and forced to train in a secret compound. Along …
This is the third Jennifer E Smith novel I’ve read and each time I’m sort of blown away by how she takes a simple idea and turns it into a great contemporary YA read. In The Geography of You and Me we get to see one version of what if two complete strangers with very …
The title may be long – but perfectly fitting. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender is often strange but equally beautiful. Telling the story of four generations, this is a novel where metaphors become reality. Born with wings Ava Lavender is somewhat of an oddity in her part of Seattle. But her ancestors …
I’ve seen the movies and loved them so I thought it was about time I saw where everything began for Percy, Grover and Annabeth. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan tells the story of how twelve year old Percy Jackson discovers he’s a demigod. Son of Poseidon, Percy has never quite been like other kids. …
Cath has always been a package deal with her identical twin sister Wren. But when the two go off to college, Wren has decided she wants this as a chance to start over. To create a new identity for herself which doesn’t involve Cath. Floundering with the forced independence, Cath continues to work on her …
For a girl who has been home schooled her entire life and wishes to explore distant planets – the lure of going to the number one space camp in the world is too much for Maisie “Danger” Brown to resist. The astronaut boot camp is everything Maisie could have dreamed of. She flirts with a …
My Review: What do you get when you combine a consulting detective, an orphaned young acrobat, airships, and a mystery which left unsolved might be the end of the world as we know it? You get The Firebird Mystery, the first novel in a steampunk Sherlock Holmes-esque series featuring Jack Mason. Jack gets the chance to leave …
Alice has been battling leukaemia for over a year but she’s getting weaker all the time. She’s sure that her time is coming to an end and as a result enlists her oldest friend, Harvey, to help her complete her unfinished business. But this is a bucket list with a difference. Alice wants to get …
Please feel free to check out my interview with Tonya as a part of the Nymph blog tour hosted by Walker Books Australia! My Review: Merope has lived for thousands of years as a star nymph in the land of gods, Olympus. But life isn’t always easy for the faded star nymph. She’s been exiled …