Category: Book Reviews
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Review – Don’t You Forget About Me by Alexandra Potter
Format: Paperback, 416 pages Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication date: July 19th 2012 ISBN-13: 9781444712117 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “What’s on your mind?” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ After a bad break up, doesn’t every girl want the same things? * For her ex-boyfriend to stay single forever… * Or maybe emigrate, to a remote,…
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Review – Undead by Kirsty McKay
Format: Paperback, 304 pages Publisher: Chicken House Publication date: Sept 1st 2011 ISBN-13: 9781906427870 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US First line: “I would rather die than face them all again.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ It was just another school trip… When their ski-coach pulls up at a cafe, and everyone else gets off, new…
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Review – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Format: Paperback, 384 pages Publisher: Century Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones It’s the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We’re out of oil. We’ve wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending…
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Review – The Reapers are the angels by Alden Bell
Format: Hardback, 302 pages Publisher: Tor Publication date: September 3rd 2010 ISBN-13: 9780230748644 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble First line: “God is a slick God.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ God is a slick god. Temple knows. She knows because of all the crackerjack miracles still to be seen…
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Review – Hollowland by Amanda Hocking
Format: Paperback, 312 pages Publisher: Amanda Hocking Publication date: 6 Oct 2010 ISBN-13: 9781453860953 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “This is the way the world ends – not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Nineteen-year-old Remy King is on a mission to get…
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Book lending. To do or not to do, that is the question.
A post over at Book Chick City struck a chord with me earlier. The question is a simple one. “Do you lend books?” The answer dredges up an examination of my relationship with books (and my mother). Me? I don’t lend books. But, I do give books. I’ve got quirks when it comes to books…
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Review – Edinburgh Dead by Brian Ruckley
Format: Paperback, 369 pages Publisher: Orbit Publication date: 4 Aug 2011 ISBN-13: 9781841498652 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “The corpse sat in a simple, high-backed chair.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ The year is 1827. For Adam Quire, an officer of the recently formed City Police, Edinburgh is a terrifying place. It is a city populated…
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Review – Darkness Falling by Peter Crowther
Darkness Falling (Forever Twilight – #1) By Peter Crowther Format: Paperback, 464 pages Publisher: Angry Robot Publication date (first UK): 6 Oct 2011 ISBN: 978 0 85766 168 5 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones Synopsis taken from Angry Robot: Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ It was a typical all-American backwater – until the…
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2012 reading challenge’s
2011 isn’t even over yet but I already know how my 2011 reading challenges will end….MADE OF FAIL! I know I won’t complete any of them as I’m too far behind and it’s too late in the day to catch up but it doesn’t matter. Well, not to me anyway. It’s not the winning that’s…
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Thin Air by Lynn Seresin – Character Interview with Delilah and a Giveaway!
Today, I’m very excited to have one of the main characters of Lynn Seresin’s debut novel, THIN AIR, with me on The Bookshelf Chronicles to answer a few questions. Read on for the interview and a giveaway! The blog tour is being organised by Bree at The Awesome Magic Attic. Allow me to introduce, Delilah!…