• 2024,  Weekly Wrap Up

    Weekly Wrap Up 04/03

    Hello and welcome to another Weekly Wrap Up! I haven’t read as much over the last week as I would like to, life keeps getting in the way. Let’s wrap up the week! Books Read Snowblooded by Emma Sterner-Radley This is a very fun assassin fantasy novel which is published by Rebellion publishing in May. Its a bloody and action packed novel which I really enjoyed. Pre-order from Waterstones or Bookshop.org Currently Reading The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett I was very lucky to get a finished copy of the new fantasy novel from Hodderscape, and I have been very excited to start reading. Described as Sherlock Holmes meets…

  • 2024,  Book Reviews,  Sci-fi

    Book Review| The Principle of Moments

    Title: The Principle of Moments Author: Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson Published: 18th January 2024 Publisher: Orion Genre: Sci-fi Series: The Order of Legends #1 Rating: 4.5/5 6066: In Emperor Thracin’s brave new galaxy, humans are not citizens but indentured labourers, working to repay the debt they unwittingly incurred when they settled on Gahraan – a desert planet already owned by the emperor himself. Asha Akindele knows she’s just another voiceless cog working the assembly lines that fuel his vast imperial war machine. Her only rebellion: studying stolen aeronautics manuals in the dead of night. But then a cloaked stranger arrives to deliver an impossible message, and her life changes in an instant.…

  • 2024,  Book Reviews,  Mystery,  Sci-fi,  Thriller

    Book Review | The Launch Party

    Title: The Launch Party Author: Lauren Forry Published: 22nd June 2023 Publisher: Zaffre Genre: Sci-fi, Thriller Rating: 3.5/5 The trip of a lifetime. You’d die to be there. Ten lucky people have won a place at the most exclusive launch event of the century: the grand opening of the Hotel Artemis, the first hotel on the moon. It’s an invitation to die for. As their transport departs for its return to Earth and the doors seal shut behind them, the guests take the next leap for mankind. However, they soon discover that all is not as it seems. The champagne may be flowing, but there is no one to pour…

  • 2024,  Book Reviews,  Children,  Middle Grade

    Book Review | The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

    Title: The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts Author: Alex Bell Published: 1st February 2024 Publisher: Faber & Faber Genre: Middle grade, adventure, fantasy Rating: 4/5 stars An out of this world magical adventure with talking animals, risk-taking and friendship aplenty! A new standalone magical story from the best-selling author of the Explorers’ Club series. Twelve-year-old Eli is an apprentice librarian at the largest library in the world. But when his grandmother falls ill, he enters the Glorious Race of Magical Beasts to raise money for her treatment. This annual race is always held in the most perilous places and is full of spiky dangers. Most participants seek out unicorns and…

  • 2024,  Book Reviews,  Dystopian,  Thriller

    Book Review | The Last Murder at the End of the World

    Title: The Last Murder at the End of the World Author: Stuart Turton Published: 28th March 2024 Publisher: Bloomsbury Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Dystopian Rating: 3/5 stars Solve the murder to save what’s left of the world. Outside the island there is nothing: the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they’re told by the scientists. Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to…

  • 2024,  Weekly Wrap Up

    Weekly Wrap Up 15/01

    Hello, welcome to another Weekly Wrap Up (15/01). It’s still January, it feels like this month goes on for years and it’s just so dark! Thankfully we have books to escape into, read on to see what I’ve been enjoying this week! Books Read Jayben and the Golden Torch by Thomas Leeds This is a lovely middle grade fantasy about Jayben who wakes in the Elf world with no memories but a great destiny to save the elf world and all their memories. It’s great fun! Buy from Waterstones or Bookshop.org Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo. I have been actively avoiding this book because I hate the cover so much…

  • 2024,  Book Reviews,  YA

    Book Review | So Let Them Burn

    Title: So Let Them Burn Author: Kamilah Cole Published: 16th January 2024 Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Genre: YA, Fantasy Series: Divine Traitors #1 Rating: 3/5 Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s forced to choose between saving her sister or protecting her homeland – perfect for fans of The Priory of the Orange Tree and Fourth Wing. Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods. Five years ago, she used her divine magic to liberate her island from its enemies, the dragon-riding Langley Empire. But now, at seventeen, Faron is all powered up with no wars to fight. She’s a legend to her people and a nuisance…