Title: At Bertram's HotelAuthor: Agatha Christie 4 STARS ★★★★ From Goodreads: Miss Marple is taking a holiday in London and has chosen Bertram's Hotel for its traditional decor, good service and unmistakable atmosphere of danger. However not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events that will soon occur. My Thoughts This is…
Title: Ayoade on topAuthor: Richard Ayoade ★★★★★ From Goodreads: At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow. In Ayoade on Top, Richard Ayoade, perhaps one of the most 'insubstantial' people of our age, takes us on a journey from Peckham to Paris…
Title: Summer FrostAuthor: Blake CrouchSeries: Forward collection 4 Stars ★★★★ From Goodreads: A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bending exploration of what it means to be human by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion. Maxine was made to do one thing: die. Except…
Title: Northern LightsAuthor: Philip PullmanSeries: His Dark Materials #1 ★★★★★ From Goodreads: When Lyra's friend Roger disappears, she and her dæmon, Pantalaimon, determine to find him. The ensuing quest leads them to the bleak splendour of the North, where armoured bears rule the ice and witch-queens fly through the frozen skies - and where a…
Title: The Moving FingerAuthor: Agatha ChristieSeries: Ms Marple #4 ★★★★ From Goodreads: The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village's quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit…
Title: Come Tumbling downAuthor: Seanan McGuireSeries: Wayward Children #5 4 Stars ★★★★ From Goodreads: When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister--whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice--back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted world…
Title: StarsightAuthor: Brandon SandersonSeries: Cytonics #2E.S.C.A.P.E Score: 45(see below for breakdown) 4.5 stars ★★★★★ From Goodreads: All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. Spensa is sure there's more…
Title: The TestAuthor: Sylvain Neuvel 4 Stars ★★★★ From Goodreads: Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine their fate. Twenty-five chances to impress. When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death.…
Title: The Polar Bear Explorer’s ClubAuthor: Alex BellSeries: The Polar Bear Explorer’s Club #1 5 Stars ★★★★★ From Goodreads: It sounded like a respectable and worthy enough death for an explorer - tumbling from an ice bridge to be impaled upon a mammoth tusk - but Stella really, really didn't want that to happen, just…
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Title: Pale The DreamerAuthor: Samantha ShannonSeries: The Bone Season 0.5 4 Stars ★★★★ From Goodreads: In the perilous heart of Scion London, a dangerous and valuable poltergeist is on the loose – and it must be caught before chaos erupts on the streets of the capital. Here, the clairvoyant underworld plays by its own rules,…
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