Category: Books
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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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Jill Mansell – The One You Really Want
Well after a lot of heavy fantasy books, I decided to give my brain a bit of a break and catch up on some of the books I’ve got downloaded on my Kindle. I’m not one to dismiss chick-lit as useless or mind-numbing, and I definitely don’t use chick-lit as a derogatory word. When it’s
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Brandon Sanderson – The Alloy of Law
I reserved this book at Waterstones while I was reading Hero of Ages, and I was very surprised when I went to pick it up that it was so short! The other books have been 700+ monsters, and this one clocked in at just over 300 pages. Let me tell you, my shoulder was very
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Laura Elliot – Stolen Child
This book was a free kindle book downloaded on a impulse and intended as a break from carrying around heavy books like the last 3 Mistborn books I’ve just read. Although it wouldn’t have mattered too much since I’ve pretty much spent my Saturday chilling out and devouring this book. The subject matter is not
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Brandon Sanderson – Hero of Ages (Mistborn 3)
Well I would just like to say that this has become my favourite fantasy series. I thought I’d loved reading Game of Thrones, but this was soooooo much better! (Warning: spoiler alerts below) I didn’t realise quite how attached I had become to the main characters until things started happening to them and I wanted
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Brandon Sanderson – The Well of Ascension (Mistborn 2)
They tend to say that the second book in a trilogy can usually be a bit slow – you’ve already got through the introduction to all the characters and the plotline, and you’re waiting for the dramatic ending to the final book in the series. But I’m very glad to say that it wasn’t true
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Brandon Sanderson – The Final Empire (Mistborn 1)
After having this book heavily recommended to me by my best friend, and then also recommended to me by the waiter at Nando’s who spotted my ‘Read Harder’ t-shirt and sparked an awesome conversation about all the books I should read, I had high hopes for this book. At 650ish pages, it’s not exactly a
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Nathan Filer – The Shock of the Fall
I had extremely high hopes for this book after looking on Goodreads and seeing that my cousin Hannah had rated it 5/5. As she’s a very infrequent five-starrer, it must be something special, right? In a way, yes. But in a way, no. I understand that the chronology of the book was reflective of Matt’s
Louise Douglas 