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 [...]
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Book Review: The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden
When I first listened to the audiobook of Katherine Arden's The Bear and The Nightingale two years ago, I knew this series was going to become a firm favourite. Her writing (and Kathleen Gati's fabulous narration) transported me straight into the winter of darkest Rus and I could feel Morozko’s breath on my cheek. She wove [...]
The Book That Steals Hearts: The Boy Who Steals Houses – Book Review
This book will break your heart and stitch it back together with caramel and sunbeams. It is a story filled with hope, pain, love, fear, and beautiful, beautiful connection. CG Drews once again demonstrates her ability to craft the most astounding characters and weave the most heart wrenching narratives. The Lou brothers are masterfully written: [...]
There Will Be Music Again – Book Review: The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton
I wasn't getting on with my chosen book. I could feel myself falling into a reading slump. I was also tired and anxious and in need of something to take me out of myself. I stumbled across Anstey Harris' The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton sitting on a supermarket shelf as I did the weekly shop. I had never heard [...]
It’s Elementary My Dear… – Book Review: A Study In Brimstone
Follow my blog with Bloglovin A few months ago the fabulous G.S.Denning got in touch with me on Instagram to ask if I would like to receive a review copy of his book, Warlock Holmes: A Study In Brimstone. A fantasy retelling of Sherlock Homes full of irreverent humour and Holmes is a hopeless warlock? [...]
Armchair Travels
Mega, mega excited for the deliver of the first ever Fernweh Fiction box! It's been a tough few days and this has brightened up my week no end. I've only had chance to have a quick look through the contents but I'm already impressed: the book is one I've never come across and looks brilliant, [...]
How I Fell in Love with Reading
Last week I shared the questions we had been asking students at school, to celebrate world book day. I promised you my answers so here they are: 1) What is your first memory of reading? Honestly, reading has been part of my life since before I can remember. So much so that there isn't [...]