News It was my birthday this month! I hit the big 3-0. This would be the time in The Sims where I aged up between Young Adult and Adult. I can’t believe I’m not a young adult anymore! I still feel like I’m seventeen! Or at least twenty. I’ve been having trouble sleeping for the […]
Month: August 2016
A Brilliant and Original High Concept Sci-fi
SUMMARY Overnight they appeared – spheres that granted enhanced properties like straight teeth, intelligence, and strength when a pair were ‘burned’. Some were rarer than others, and so a business grew around hunting these spheres. And that’s how Sully and Hunter met. But no one know if these mysterious spheres are a gift from God […]
Booklikes Halloween Bingo 2016
Banner by Murder by Death. I blog my reviews and random bookish thoughts over at Booklikes and this fall (autumn for us Aussies) two dear Booklikes pals of mine, Moonlight Murder and Obsidian Black Death are hosting a Booklikes Halloween Bingo! I’ve decided to take part because my ARCs are at an all-time low and […]
Game of Thrones Book Tag
Brianna and Angela of Fables Library decided to create a book tag in celebration of Game of Thrones. PLEASE KEEP IN MIND, THERE MAY BE MINOR SPOILERS. Burning Midnight by Will McIntosh. This was a high-concept sci-fi and it took a long time for the major conflict to arrive but my gosh it was worth […]
You Should Be Aware Of This Totally Awesome Aussie Fantasy
SUMMARY Blaze Halfbreed has been sent on a mission to retrieve the Cirkasian Castlemaid from Gortham Spit, a barely hospital strip of sand where only the lowest of the low and the most desperate congregate. There she discovers the filthy stench of evil dunmagic and realises a great evil has returned to threaten the whole […]
#ShatteringStigmas II
Today I’m guest posting on It Starts At Midnight with a very personal post about caring for someone with a mental illness and what happened when I had to call the suicide hotline. Drop by to read my story and support the other hosts and blogs taking part to help shatter the stigma against mental illness. […]
Teen Wolf Book Tag
Hiya readers! I’m not a big tag-doer but when I find a good one that is about a fandom I love, I love to jump in! There is a Teen Wolf Book Tag originally created by Unaplopusandante. I’m taking most of the inspiration from her tag but I don’t like some of her questions so […]
Desperate To Get Across The Wall
This is a review of just the novella in this collection, ‘Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case’. It is not a review of the complete book. It’s six months after the combined magic of the Charter defeated the Destroyer, and Nick is back in Ancelstierre, reluctantly attending a house party on behalf of […]
#LoveOzYA Blog Hop
Hosts: Happy Indulgence, Genie in a Book, Loony Literate, Thoughts by J and My Life in Books. Questions: What do you love about Aussie YA? I love the sheer imagination and variety coming from the writers. We have fantastic contemporaries, sizzling paranormals, epic fantasies, intriguing sci-fi, and it’s all coming from Australian authors! I think […]
The Heat Is On In ‘A Promise Of Fire’ by Amanda Bouchet
For some reason I believed this was a YA book. It’s not. It’s very adult fantasy. But I’m reviewing it anyway because I was granted a review copy. SUMMARY Cat, a circus performer, is identified as a powerful magoi and kidnapped by a warlord named Griffin and his band of ultra-sexy warriors, intending to use […]