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 [...]
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 [...]
”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, [...]
I'm Not Too Bad, Thanks is stunning in its vulnerability. Chris writes with relatable and accessible language which gets to the heart of the human experience.
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 [...]
Back in September I posted a round up of some things I'd been enjoying over the summer in what was intended to be the first on a series called Watch.Read.Listen.Love... and then I completely failed to do the second in the series over the autumn. I'm going to go ahead and let myself off the [...]
When I read Grief Is The Thing With Feathers a few years ago, I was utterly moved by it. I couldn't compare it to anything I had read before. It was raw, emotional, poignant, thought-provoking and completely unique. So it was with great anticipation that I finally sat down to read Lanny. I was not [...]
Up until just over a year ago I had never really listened to audiobooks. The only thing I remember having listened to was an audio of Winnie-The-Pooh, which I bought on a whim when I couldn't sleep and wanted a bedtime story! When our lovely dog, Luna, first came into our lives, I suddenly found [...]
Thrive In Chaos 