Title: Wild MagicAuthor: Tamora PierceSeries: The Immortals Quartet #1 4 stars ★★★★ From Goodreads: Wildness is a kind of magic Daine has always had a special connection with animals, but only when she’s forced to leave home does she realize it’s more than a knack . . . it’s magic. With this wild magic, not…
Title: Nevermoor: The Trails of Morrigan CrowAuthor: Jessica TownsendSeries: Nevermoor #1 5 stars ★★★★★ From Goodreads: Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks--and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed…
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The Beast Will Feast Title: The Beast and the BethanyAuthor: Jack Meggitt-PhilipsIllustrator: Isabelle FollathRelease Date: 1st October 2020E.S.C.A.P.E Score: 54 5 stars ★★★★★ I received an Advanced copy from Egmont , via The Write Reads in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. From Waterstones: Ebenezer Tweezer is a youthful 511-year-old. He…
The Hugo 2020 winner of best novelette Title: Emergency SkinAuthor: N.K JemisinSeries: The Forward Collection 5 stars ★★★★★ From Goodreads: What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award–winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy. An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged…
Title: Artificial ConditionAuthor: Martha Wells Series: Murderbot Diaries #2 5 stars ★★★★★ From Goodreads: It has a dark past – one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to…
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Title: The JumbiesAuthor: Tracy BaptisteSeries: The Jumbies #1 4 stars ★★★★ From Goodreads: Corinne La Mer claims she isn’t afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They’re just tricksters made up by parents to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way…
Title: Equal RitesAuthor: Terry PrachetSeries: Discworld #3, Witches #1 stars ★★★★ From Goodreads: It is known as the Discworld. It is a flat planet, supported on the backs of four elephants, who in turn stand on the back of the great turtle A'Tuin as it swims majestically through space. And it is quite possibly the…
Title: Guards! Guards!Author: Terry PrachettSeries: Discworld #8, City Watch#1 5 stars ★★★★★ From Goodreads: This is where the dragons went. They lie ... not dead, not asleep, but ... dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can…
Title: Tilly and the BookwanderersAuthor: Anna JamesSeries: Pages and Co #1 5 stars ★★★★★ From Goodreads: Since her mother’s disappearance, eleven-year-old Tilly has found comfort in stories at Pages & Co., her grandparents’ bookshop. But when her favourite characters, Anne of Green Gables and Alice from Wonderland, appear in the shop, Tilly’s adventures become very…
Title: Murder in the MewsAuthor: Agatha ChristieSeries: Hercule Poirot #18 3 Stars ★★★ From Goodreads: How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secret military plans? These are just two of the questions…
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