Review: Legendary (Caraval #2), by Stephanie Garber

A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win

Review: Everless, by Sarah Holland

Time is a prison. She is the key. Packed with danger, temptation and desire

Review: Turtles All The Way Down, by John Green

Your now is not your forever

Review: Caraval, by Stephanie Garber

Welcome, welcome to Caraval…beware of getting swept too far away.

Review: All Souls Trilogy, by Deborah Harkness

It begins with a discovery of witches

Review: The Old Kingdom Series, by Garth Nix

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

Review: Bone Witch, by Rin Chupeco

Synopsis: Tea is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy makes her a bone witch, who are feared and ostracized in the kingdom. For theirs is a powerful, elemental magic that can reach beyond the boundaries of the living—and of the human. Great power comes at a price, forcing Tea …

Review: Dawn Study, by Maria V Snyder

Synopsis: Despite the odds, Yelena and Valek have forged an irrevocable bond and a family that transcends borders. Now, when their two homelands stand on the brink of war, they must fight with magic and cunning to thwart an Ixian plot to invade Sitia. Yelena seeks to break the hold of the insidious Theobroma that …

Review: A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness

“Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue,”

Review: Alanna – Song of the Lioness Quartet, by Tamora Pierce

"From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight." Rereading one of my favourite childhood authors as an adult

Review: The Bone Season, Samantha Shannon

Synopsis: The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people's minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason …

Review: The Paper Magician Trilogy, by Charlie N Holmberg

Synopsis: Paper Magician: Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she’s bonded to paper, that …

Review: Smoke, by Dan Vyleta

Synopsis: If sin were visible and you could see people's anger, their lust and cravings, what would the world be like? Smoke opens in a private boarding school near Oxford, but history has not followed the path known to us. In this other past, sin appears as smoke on the body and soot on the …

Review: Shtum, by Jem Lester

Synopsis: Ben Jewell has hit breaking point. His ten-year-old son Jonah has severe autism and Ben and his wife, Emma, are struggling to cope. When Ben and Emma fake a separation - a strategic decision to further Jonah's case in an upcoming tribunal - Ben and Jonah move in with Georg, Ben's elderly father. In …

Review: Chronicles of Ixia, by Maria V Snyder

Synopsis: About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her …

Review: The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Colman

Synopsis: Irene must be at the top of her game or she'll be off the case - permanently... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she's posted to an alternative London. Their mission - to retrieve a dangerous book. But …

Review: Glass Sword, by Victoria Aveyard

Synopsis: Mare's blood is red - the colour of common folk - but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from the prince and friend who betrayed …

Review: Red Queen, by Victoria Aveyard

Synopsis: The poverty-stricken Reds are commoners, living in the shadow of the Silvers, elite warriors with god-like powers. To Mare Barrow, a 17-year-old Red girl from the Stilts, it looks like nothing will ever change. Then Mare finds herself working at the Silver palace, in the midst of those she hates the most. She quickly …

Review: An Ember in the Ashes, by Sabaa Tahir

Synopsis: What if you were the spark that could ignite a revolution? For years Laia has lived in fear. Fear of the Empire, fear of the Martials, fear of truly living at all. Born as a Scholar, she’s never had much of a choice. For Elias it’s the opposite. He has seen too much on …

Spring Round Up

I have a serious amount of reviews to catch up on and, if you know me at all, you’d know that I’d rather be reading (my current book is sat by me, whispering ‘read me’ ever so softly in my ear!). So, here’s a quick spring round up to get up to date. Big Brother, …