ARC Backlist Review – Once and Future Witches

Title: The Once and Future WitchesAuthor: Alix E. HarrowRelease Date: 15/10/2020E.S.C.A.P.E Score: 54(see below for breakdown) 5 stars ★★★★★ I received a free eARC copy from Orbit , via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. From Goodreads: In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be,…

ARC Review – The Mask Falling

Title: The Mask FallingAuthor: Samantha ShannonSeries: The Bone Season #4Release Date: 26/1/21E.S.C.A.P.E Score: 44(see below for breakdown) 4 stars ★★★★ I received a free eARC copy from Bloomsberry , via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. From Goodreads: Dreamwalker Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws…

Mini Review – The Dawn Chorus

Title: The Dawn ChorusAuthor: Samantha ShannonSeries: The Bone Season #3.5 4 stars ★★★★ From Goodreads: An ebook exclusive which bridges the story between the previous and forthcoming instalments of Samantha Shannon's international phenomenon series The Bone Season Paige Mahoney and Arcturus Mesarthim have arrived in the Scion Citadel of Paris. Exhausted by her efforts against…

Review – The Song Rising

Title: The Song RisingAuthor: Samantha ShannonSeries: The Bone Season #3E.S.C.A.P.E Score: 39(see below for breakdown) 3. 5 stars ★★★★ From Goodreads: The hotly anticipated third book in the bestselling Bone Season series – a ground-breaking, dystopian fantasy of extraordinary imagination Following a bloody battle against foes on every side, Paige Mahoney has risen to the…

Backlist Review – The Mime order

Title: The Mime Order Author: Samantha ShannonSeries: The bone season book #2E.S.C.A.P.E Score: 38(see below for breakdown) 3.5 stars ★★★★ From Goodreads: Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal prison camp of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person in London...…

Mini Review – A Study in Scarlet

Title: A Study in ScarlettAuthor: Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSeries: Sherlock Holmes #1 3.5 stars ★★★★ From Goodreads: When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in…

Review – And the Rest is History

Title: And The Rest is HistoryAuthor: Jodi TaylorSeries: Chronicles of St Mary's #8E.S.C.A.P.E Score: 53(see below for breakdown) 5 stars ★★★★★ From Goodreads: No one knows quite how, but Max and her baby are safe at last. No one knows quite how, but Peterson has persuaded Dr Foster to marry him. No one knows quite…

Audio ARC Review – Devil and the Dark Water

Title: The Devil and The Dark WaterAuthor: Stuart TurtonNarrator: Julian Rhind-TuttRelease Date: 1/10/20 E.S.C.A.P.E Score: 42(see below for breakdown) 4 stars ★★★★ I received a free audioARC copy from Bloomsbury UK Audio , via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. From Goodreads: A murder on the high seas. A…

Mini Review – Men At Arms

Title: Men at ArmsAuthor: Terry PratchettSeries: City Watch #2 DiscWorld #15 5 stars ★★★★★ From Goodreads: 'Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN!' But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman ... most of the…

ARC Review – The House at the Edge of Magic

Title: The House at the Edge of MagicAuthor: Amy SparkesRelease Date: 7/1/2021 4 stars ★★★★ I received a free eARC copy from Walker Books , via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. From Goodreads: Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a…