Category: Books

Fantasy Reviews #3: Burning Midnight & Reawakened

Fantasy Reviews #3: Burning Midnight & Reawakened

Burning Midnight gave me fond memories of Pokemon, with people trying to find the rarest spheres and collecting them. The coloured spheres have different abilities that get progressively cooler depending on how rare they are. Want to become better looking, improve your hearing, get a higher IQ or my favourite – read faster? There’s a sphere for everything. The […]

February 5, 2016 | 30 Comments
Chimera by Mira Grant Review: Survival of the Fittest

Chimera by Mira Grant Review: Survival of the Fittest

This review does not contain any series spoilers.  Reading this series is always a delightfully horrific and philosophical experience. Being centered around a scientific experiment gone wrong, causing tapeworms that were meant to be the end of human disease and suffering to overtake their hosts, it gets pretty squeamish during some parts. That’s part of […]

January 29, 2016 | 22 Comments
Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin Review: Boy or girl? Does it matter?

Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin Review: Boy or girl? Does it matter?

The issue that Symptoms of Being Human tackles is something I’ve never read before. This novel features a gender fluid character and the struggles that come with coming out as a gender fluid individual, especially when nobody understands what it means or what it’s like to continually switch between identifying as a male and a female. I […]

January 27, 2016 | 45 Comments
These Vicious Masks by Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas Review: Less of the swoon, more of the mystery

These Vicious Masks by Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas Review: Less of the swoon, more of the mystery

Set in a historical setting, These Vicious Masks features a set of vibrant characters with supernatural powers that have the power to change the world – in both good and bad ways. We start out with Evelyn, who is telling the story from a first person point of view. She dislikes the monotonous patterns of […]

January 25, 2016 | 34 Comments
By Aila J.
Posted in 4 stars, ARC Reviews, Books
Indulgence Insider #46 – Lifeline Bookfest Hauling

Indulgence Insider #46 – Lifeline Bookfest Hauling

Indulgence Insider is our version of Stacking the Shelves, Bought, Borrowed & Bagged and the Sunday Post, bringing you this week’s haul, bookish news and discussion posts from around the blogosphere! Anyone who’s clued in on the blogosphere will know, that it’s been a drama-filled week for us book bloggers. From controversial opinions turning into a […]

Winter by Marissa Meyer Review: Fangirling over my OTPs

Winter by Marissa Meyer Review: Fangirling over my OTPs

What a beautiful ending to my favourite Lunar Chronicles series! There were so many beautiful moments throughout the book. At 800 pages, the book never drags or slows down. This is war, where Cinder rallies the Lunar Citizens to overtake Levana’s mind control rule. I wasn’t quite prepared for the bloody massacre within the book, and the […]

January 23, 2016 | 38 Comments