I kept hearing amazing things about Becky Chambers, but for whatever reason I just hadn’t got around to picking the books up. Then finally in June 2018 I picked up the first book, A Long Way to A Small Angry Planet, and it became my favourite book of the year – I flew through the two books… Read More To Be Taught, if Fortunate (Becky Chambers)
Plot: ★★ Characters: ★★★ Readability: ★★★★ Exorsisters is a really fun premise – two sisters work together to help paying customers deal with possessions, exorcisms, and troublesome demons. Volume 1 contains the first 5 issues, and the story develops quite a long way within just this one volume. Like early Buffy or Smallville, each issue… Read More Exorsisters Vol. 1
Plot: ★★★★ Characters: ★★ Readability: ★★★★ If you’ve been following the blog for long, you’ll probably know there are a few things I absolutely cannot resist, and while this book doesn’t have all of them (there’s a distinct lack of dragons) it does tick a lot of my boxes. Secret government conspiracy? Check. Mysterious, creepy,… Read More Adaptation (Malinda Lo)
Plot: ★★ Characters: ★ Readability: ★★ I’ve heard a lot about Meagan Spooner – I know Mel loved Hunted – but I’ve never got around to picking one of her books up. I got a review copy of Sherwood through Edelweiss ages ago, and when I wasn’t sure what I was in the mood for… Read More Sherwood (Meagan Spooner)
Although I generally don’t like the idea of guilty pleasure books – from where I’m sitting, if you’re reading, who cares what it is?! – I can’t ever seem to stop myself from feeling a little guilty about the occasional erotic romance I pick up. I feel about them the same way I do about… Read More A Taste Of You [After Dark review]
