Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Harlequin (UK) Publication date: May 20th 2011 ISBN13: 9780778304593 First Line – “Once upon a time there were twelve princesses…” A forbidden love…a private war. There’s a sudden scatter of birds in the sky. I flinch. Little things seem violent to me. And in that moment my decision is made. It’s…
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Review – This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: St Martin’s Griffin Publication date: July 9th 2012 ISBN13: 9780312656744 First Line – “Lily, I woke up and the last piece of my heart disappeared” It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding…
Review – Heaven Can Wait by Cally Taylor
Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Orion Publication date: Oct 15th 2009 ISBN13: 9781409103233 First Line – “What would you do if you thought you were about to die?” ‘What would I do without you, Lucy Brown?’ he said, and kissed me softly. I held his face in my hands and kissed him back. I felt that…
Book Review – Don’t You Forget About Me by Alexandra Potter
Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication date: July 19th 2012 ISBN13: 9781444712117 First Line – “What’s on your mind?” 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, uninhabited island? * Better still, that she’d…
Book Review – Undead by Kirsty McKay
Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Chicken House Publication date: Sept 1st 2011 ISBN13: 9781906427870 First Line – “I would rather die than face them all again.” It was just another school trip… When their ski-coach pulls up at a cafe, and everyone else gets off, new girl Bobby and rebel Smitty stay behind. They hardly know…
Book Review – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Paperback: 384 pagesPublisher: CenturyPublication date: August 18th 2011ISBN13: 9781846059377 First Line – “Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest.” 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…
Book Review – The Reapers are the angels by Alden Bell
Hardback: 302 pages Publisher: Tor Publication date: September 3rd 2010 ISBN13: 9780230748644 First Line – “God is a Slick God.” God is a slick god. Temple knows. She knows because of all the crackerjack miracles still to be seen on this ruined globe…Older than her years and completely alone, Temple is just trying to live…
Book Review – Hollowland by Amanda Hocking
Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Amanda Hocking Publication date: 6 Oct 2010 ISBN13: 9781453860953 First Line – “This is the way the world ends – not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.” Nineteen-year-old Remy King is on a mission to get across the wasteland left of America, and…
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…
Book Review – Edinburgh Dead by Brian Ruckley
Paperback: 369 pages Publisher: Orbit Publication date: 4 Aug 2011 ISBN13: 9781841498652 First Line – “The corpse sat in a simple, high-backed chair” 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 by mad alchemists and a criminal underclass…