Publisher: Allen & Unwin Publishing Date: 2002 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback Page count: 332 My rating: I’ll admit, I didn’t recognise Merridy Eastman’s face or name prior to the end of this book where she reveals she got a job on the one TV show mentioned that I actually watched (Always Greener). Her stint on Playschool was before my […]
Month: August 2012
Book Review: Outside In by Maria V Snyder
Publisher: Harlequin Release Date: 3 January 2011 Genre: YA, sci-fi, dystopian Format: Paperback Page Count: 326 Source: Purchased Links: Amazon | Book Depository | Goodreads | Author website Rating: Outside In suffers from the same page-turning excitement The Hunger Games suffers from. I say ‘suffers’ because I suffered when I had to put it down to do normal things like eat […]
Book Review: Inside Out by Maria V Snyder
Publisher: Harlequin Release Date: 1 April 2010 Genre: YA, sci-fi, dystopian Format: Paperback Page Count: 315 Source: Purchased Links: Amazon | Book Depository | Goodreads | Author website Rating: Inside Out is, first and foremost, a dystopian. However, it is not like the standard YA dystopian, The Hunger Games, to which it is often compared. It is similar to in […]
Book Review: Ice by Sarah Beth Durst
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books Release Date: 6 October 2009 Genre: YA/New Adult, Paranormal Romance Format: Paperback Page Count: 336 Source: Library Links: Amazon | Book Depository | Goodreads | Author website Rating: This novel is based on a lesser-known Norwegian fairy tale, and though I’d never heard of the tale before, this retelling was wonderfully imagined. I can’t say how […]
Book Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Publisher: Doubleday Release Date: 13 September 2011 Genre: Fantasy, Magical Realism, Victorian Format: Hardcover Page Count: 387 Source: Library Links: Amazon | Book Depository | Goodreads | Author website Rating: Gah! What a supremely boring book. The prose is near perfect, and the descriptions are the best I’ve ever read. But good writing and beautiful descriptions does not a good book […]