Category: Fiction
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Cassandra Clare – City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments #5)
Well this series took a turn for the weird again. No sooner have we got away from the fact that Clary was in love with her supposed brother, but her real brother has now arrived on the scene big style, and their relationship (or should I say how he sees their relationship) is just downright
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Cassandra Clare – City of Fallen Angels (Mortal Instruments #4)
Finally this series is getting a bit more dark. There’s a hell of a lot going on in this book, and thankfully we seem to not be solely focusing on Clary and her endless teenage moping. In fact, we spend much of the first part of the book focused on Simon. He’d just about got
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Craig Lancaster – Edward Adrift
It’s been a few years since we last checked in with Edward, and so far, he’s having a shitburger of a year. He was fired (or should I say involuntarily separated) from his job at the Billings Herald Gleaner, his new best friend Donna moved away with her son Kyle, Dr Buckley has retired, and
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Cassandra Clare – City of Glass (Mortal Instruments #3)
While I’m still not finding this series anywhere near as well written as other fantasy series that I have read, it’s slowly improving book by book. The depth of the plot is still pretty shallow to me, although the character development is improving over time. The story was action packed and filled with drama. There
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Cassandra Clare – City of Ashes (Mortal Instruments #2)
Well it looks like this series may just have earned itself a second chance. Unfortunately, Clary was still stuck in a very teenage love triangle with her supposed brother and her best friend. Slightly creepy, but at least she wasn’t quite as mopey as the first book. The book contained much more action than City
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Cassandra Clare – City of Bones (Mortal Instruments #1)
I was prepared to fall in love with this book in a ‘this is going to be an awesome series’ kind of way. But unfortunately, the book was less Hunger Games and more Twilight. The female lead was a bit of a wet sponge, moping over her new crush Jace, while being totally oblivious to
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Craig Lancaster – 600 Hours of Edward
There are a lot of books in this genre, and I’ve definitely read a fair few, but I never get tired of them. The book revolves around a man called Edward Stanton. He has aspergers and lives his life around a very strict routine. Waking at the same time almost every day, eating the same
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Ayşe Kulin – Last Train to Istanbul
This was a beautiful and uplifting tale of love and family and the ties that hold us together. The story took quite a while to get going, we are introduced to Selva and Sabiha, two sisters from Muslim Turkey, who are about as alike as cats and dogs. Sabiha has always been jealous of Selva,
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Charlie N. Holmberg – The Glass Magician
Despite my fears that this book would move on from Ceony and Thane, I was delighted when I started reading and it was a continuation of their story. As with the first book, I loved the complicated relationship between the two characters and how this was developed slowly throughout the book. After Ceony had defeated
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Charlie N. Holmberg – The Paper Magician
Well I really didn’t know what to expect from this book, but it completely blew my socks off! The blurb on Goodreads was: “Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony
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Jeff Wheeler – The Scourge of Muirwood
Well what a stonking way to finish off this series. At the end of the last book, Lia has figured out that she is the real Ellowyn Demont, heir of Pry-ree. And this means that she needs to make the trip to Dochte Abbey to give the warning about the coming blight. But it looks
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Jeff Wheeler – The Blight of Muirwood
I was fully expecting this book to suffer from the usual ‘middle-book-blues’, where the middle book seems to just be filler while we wait for the final conclusion. But this book was no disappointment, building on the story perfectly and setting up intriguingly for the concluding book. I did think towards the start of the
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Jeff Wheeler – The Wretched of Muirwood
Well after my last disastrous foray out of the fantasy world, I decided to jump straight back in with the first in this series of books which was supposedly one of the top books in the ‘kindle unlimited with narration’ section. I did enjoy listening to this book, the narrator did several accents and definitely
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Matt Dunn – A Day at the Office
I can’t remember if I’ve read any other Matt Dunn books, but if I did, I’d imagine that I enjoyed them much more than this. I don’t think it was helped by the fact that the audio book sounded like it was being read by my sat nav, with a spectacular array of terrible accents.
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Yann Martel – Life of Pi
With the amount of hype that surrounds this book (and the subsequent film, which I haven’t yet seen), I feel like I should have loved this book. But unfortunately, I didn’t. I signed up for a free trial of Kindle Unlimited, which comes with free audio versions of selected books via Audible. This was my
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