Godsgrave is the sequel to Nevernight, the first book in The Nevernight Chronicle. This is a spoiler free review. What could be even more brutal than assassin school? Well my friends, I’ve learnt that there’s something even worse than killing people for coin. And that’s killing people, for entertainment. In Godsgrave, Mia has moved on from the […]
What do you do when you’re outrageously rich and you’re part of the most powerful, influential families in Asia? You spend it of course, in the wildest and craziest ways. From plastering oneself with the next season’s designer labels, to being named a Countess and having everyone bow to them, to getting plastic surgery for […]
Waking Gods is the 2nd book in the Themis Files series. Check out my review for Sleeping Giants here. After reading and loving the first book, I was super excited about Waking Gods – giant alien robots on Earth is already hard enough to believe, but this sequel gives us not one, not two, but 13 […]
The Bone Season is one of my favourite fantasy series, and I cannot wait until The Song Rising is released! With thanks to Bloomsbury Australia, I’m sharing with you the prelude to The Song Rising, which is released on March 7, 2017. I want it now! Prelude 2 November, 2059 The lights scalded my borrowed eyes. I was still […]
Like most readers, I’ve been highly anticipating Harry Potter and the Cursed Child since I first heard that the script was going to be released in book form. But I actually knew nothing about the plot going into the story and I think that worked in my favour. I had very few expectations and I […]
I’ve never read a book set in Alaska before, so when The Smell of Other People’s Houses came about, I knew I had to get this glimpse into a different life. Being historical fiction, the book is set in the 1970s, told from the perspective of four very different teenage characters. It has a wonderful small […]
If there’s anything that I wished I had at university, it is Summer Skin. Finally, there’s a book that tells you that having sex is okay without being called a slut, that it’s okay to stand up for yourself in an abusive relationship, that it’s okay to tell off misogynist men while still maintaining your values. This […]
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 […]
Read about what? Why, only the murder of one of the richest men in New York, Charles Montfort! Or that’s what his daughter, Jo, believes. It was supposed to be an “accident,” but evidence proves otherwise… So what else can an aspiring journalist in the 1890’s do? Investigate it, of course! Jo is such a […]