Category: Fiction
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Maria V. Snyder – Magic Study
So while I was reading this book, I kinda broke my blog a little bit, so I haven’t been able to post this review, even though it’s been well over a month since I read it. So I do apologise if this review is lacking a bit. I’ve also been in hospital for the last
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Maria V. Snyder – Poison Study
If you’re following my reviews, you’ll have probably noticed that I haven’t read very much this year, I just haven’t found myself wanting to pick up a book and read very much. But if I needed a book to renew my desire to read, Poison Study was perfect. My friend Abi bought it for me
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Kody Keplinger – The DUFF
I’ve had this book for ages and it’s been in my suitcase on at least 3 holidays, but I never actually got around to reading it. I guess I was a bit scared that it would be a bit too childish. But after reading, I don’t think I had much to worry about. I mean,
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Jesse Andrews – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
I really wanted to love this book as I’ve had it on my shelf for about 3 months waiting to be read. But I just couldn’t love it. I think the book suffered due to the obvious comparisons I was bound to make to The Fault in Our Stars, which was supremely awesome. Whereas in
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Claire Fuller – Our Endless Numbered Days
Cameron’s mum gave me book tokens for Christmas so I could buy books without Cameron shouting at me (she gets me), so I took myself on a trip to WH Smiths and Waterstones and came back with a few books, including this one. The description on the back was reminiscent of Room by Emma Donoghue,
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P. L. Travers – Mary Poppins
I had obviously known that Mary Poppins was based on a book, but I’d never even thought to read it. I don’t know why, but it was on sale at Asda, along with Annie (which I hadn’t known was based on a book), so I couldn’t resist buying them both to see what they were
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Carole Matthews – The Chocolate Lovers’ Christmas
Silly me didn’t realise when I bought this book that it was book 3 in a series, I was just at the supermarket and wanted to get some Christmassy books to get me in the festive spirit. So my review should probably be taken with a pinch of salt as I don’t know any of
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Robin Hobb – Assassin’s Apprentice
I received this book as a free book from Kindle about a year ago, and it’s taken me this long to get around to reading it. I must admit that it took me a long time to warm to the book, it didn’t catch my attention enough to keep me drawn in so I stopped
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C.S. Lewis – The Screwtape Letters
For the last 12 weeks, I’ve been doing the Alpha Course at Pudsey Parish Church (it finished last night – boooo!). There’s a really interesting group of people on my table, including a lovely lady called Eunice who recommended the Adrian Plass book I read previously. She also recommended this book a few times, saying
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Adrian Plass – The Growing Up Pains of Adrian Plass
For the last couple of months, Cameron and I have been going to the Alpha Course at Church. It’s been really interesting to learn more about Christianity, and it’s been made even better by having such a good group of people on our table for the discussions after the talk, it’s really become the highlight
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Brandon Sanderson – Steelheart
A week ago, I was stood in Waterstones torn between buying the two Stormlight Archive books, or whether to buy this. In the end, I settled on buying this and the first of the Stormlight books, mainly because the Stormlights are so big I didn’t think I could carry two of them around for the
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Karen Miller – The Awakened Mage
I was absolutely blown away by this book. After The Innocent Mage ended on such a massive cliffhanger, I couldn’t wait to sink my teeth into this and find out what happened to Gar and Asher and everyone else. Whereas The Innocent Mage started off quite slowly, I didn’t have too many problems with the
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Liz Rosenberg – The Laws of Gravity
How far would you go to protect your family? And if, in the act of protecting your family, you ended up losing them anyway, would it all be worth it? That’s the dilemma Ari faces when he finds out his cousin Nicole is dying of cancer, and her only hope of survival is a cord-blood
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Karen Miller – The Innocent Mage
This was a wonderful birthday present from my friend Abi. She’s the one that got me into reading fantasy, and I don’t think she’s ever suggested a book I haven’t loved. I found that this book started off a little slow, there was a lot of time spent building up the back-story and getting slowly
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Gaston Leroux – Phantom of the Opera
I’ve been meaning to get round to reading this for absolutely ages, I think I downloaded it when I first got the Kindle app for my phone, but it has just never jumped to the top of the list. But I figured it was about time, especially with it coming with a free audio version
Louise Douglas 