Plot: ★★ Characters: ★★ Addictiveness: ★★★ When I read it… I read this between March 18th and 23rd 2016. What I’d heard before I read it: Mostly great things, that people hadn’t wanted to put it down! I couldn’t resist this one because I really enjoyed The Girl with All The Gifts. What worked for… Read More Review: Fellside
Plot: ★★★ Characters: ★★★★ Readability: ★★★★ Dorie Rochart has always wanted to do field work; to go out searching for basilisks, to study wyverns, to bring back the long-forgotten cures to people who can’t afford the expensive prices everyone seems to charge now. Unfortunately for Dorie, no one wants to hire a girl for… Read More Silverblind (Tina Connolly)
Plot: ★★★ Characters: ★★ Readability: ★★★ Chris Shane is one of the most famous Hadens in the world. Chris has ‘lock in’; unable to move, or speak, Chris interacts with the world through a Personal Transport (also known as a threep, after C3PO). Chris is a rookie FBI agent whose first week involves a… Read More Lock In (John Scalzi)
Plot: ★★★★★ Characters: ★★★ Readability: ★★★★ Strange but true: for some reason I was convinced Ready Player One was an old book, a sci-fi classic like Ender’s Game or Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Reality: Ready Player One was published in 2011. Don’t ask me why I was convinced it was published in the 80s… Read More Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)
Plot: ★★★★ Characters: ★★★ Readability: ★★★ The Queen of the Tearling is a book I heard absolutely loads about before I actually read it, and I think that did the book a disservice. The problem is that so many of the reviews I was reading kept calling The Queen of the Tearling a YA… Read More The Queen of The Tearling (Erika Johansen)
