Pet is here to hunt a monster.Are you brave enough to look?There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. But when she meets Pet, a creature made [...]
I preordered Not Quite Out a little while ago greatly excited to read it. I read it in a day. I just wanted Daniel to be ok. I wanted to hug Will for caring so much and wanted to take away his hesitancy around his identity. I wanted to go and have a drink with [...]
It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl’s display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from [...]
Happy publication day to Rebecca Zahabi’s The Game Weavers! I’m honoured to be kicking off the blog tour for this brilliant book and am excited to see it head out into the world and into the hands of readers. It’s always refreshing to read a book that’s a bit different, that feels original, and that’s [...]
Much though I'm a sucker for a big chunky book or a long series, in recent years I have had a growing love for the short story. Short stories can be incredibly powerful, but it takes real skill to craft them effectively. Dreena Collins has well and truly mastered that skill. In her forward to [...]
Huge thanks to Zuntold Publishing for sending me an ARC of Rebecca Zahabi's Game Weavers for review. From the blurb: Seo is Twine’s youth champion. We are in a darker Britain and the national sport is not football but Twine, a game where weavers craft creatures from their finger tips to wage battle against others [...]
Read. This. Book. Invisible Women should be compulsory reading for everyone. Regardless of profession, walk of life, man, woman, child - everyone should read it. I am not normally a big fan of non-fiction as I often find it difficult to get into but this book is SO interesting...and SO enraging. I would have considered [...]
For some people, just hearing the word ‘poetry’ is enough to make them cringe or groan or roll their eyes, perhaps recalling endless GCSE English lessons slaving over poems that seemed to be about something simple – say, a pair of brown curtains – but that your teacher insisted was actually about the poet’s regret [...]
”You can betray someone with a word or an action. You can betray them with silence or inaction too. And in betraying that one person, you can betray a whole world.” Exodus, Julie Bertagna I can’t remember the first time I read this book. It was a long time ago though. I do remember being [...]
A few years ago, I fell in love with The Lost Words - a stunning collection of poetry and illustrations by Rob Macfarlane and Jackie Morris celebrating the wonders of nature and preserving the words that are becoming increasingly absent from our common vernacular. With that book, I taught a class of eleven year olds what bluebells are, [...]
Thrive In Chaos 