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)
Plot: ★★★★★ Characters: ★★★ Readability: ★★★★ Darrow is one of the Reds burrowing deep into Mars to mine the elements needed to terraform the planet so that the other colours can one day join them. Or so he believed. Helped by a mysterious group of rebels, Darrow is disguised as a Gold, one of… Read More Red Rising (Pierce Brown)
Plot: ★★★ Characters: ★★★★ Readability: ★★★ Melanie is a little girl who lives in a cell. Every morning, men with guns and grim faces lock her into her wheelchair, push her down the corridor and into the classroom, where she and around twenty other wheelchair bound kids are taught lessons by a variety of teachers. … Read More The Girl with All the Gifts (M. R. Carey)
SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THE FARSEER AND TAWNY MAN TRILOGIES STOP READING NOW! (and go read Assassin’s Apprentice instead) Plot: ★★★★ Characters: ★★★★★ Readability: ★★★★ Fitz is happily ensconced in Withywoods, married to the woman of his dreams, far away from the deceit of Buckeep Court and his old life. He and Molly… Read More Fool’s Assassin (Robin Hobb)
Plot: ★★ Characters: ★ Readability: ★ The Silver Chain was unfortunately not a book I could get along with. I’ve made no secret of the fact that erotic fiction is a bit of a guilty pleasure, and the genre is usually great for a quick, light read. It can be a little formulaic sometimes, but… Read More Mini review: The Silver Chain (Primula Bond)
