SUMMARY Yelena, Valek, Janco and the gang return in this fast-paced, action-oriented fantasy novel as Yelena struggles to find out what caused her magic to disappear and who is attempting to murder her, Valek deals with a cocky new assassin after his job, and Janco must find out who is smuggling illegal goods into and […]
The Third Twin by C.J. Omololu Publication: February 24th 2015 by Delacorte 336 pages When they were little, Lexi and her identical twin, Ava, made up a third sister, Alicia. If something broke? Alicia did it. Cookies got eaten? Alicia’s guilty. Alicia was always to blame for everything. The game is all grown up […]
Welcome to Musing by Moonlight, where I take the opportunity to get off my chest anything and everything to do with books. Or maybe not. Depends how I feel. A Shocking Revelation I’m incredibly organised when it comes to how I get my hands on the books I want to read. Previously I’ve detailed exactly […]
Page to Screen is a new original feature I’m experimenting with where I talk about film adaptations of YA books Do your favourite actors influence your viewing choices? When I read If I Stay, I thought it was a perfectly nice, perfectly sweet, perfectly bland story about a girl with the perfect life trying to decide whether […]
Ice Study is a recently expanded re-write of the previous Ice Study and serves as a prequel of sorts to Shadow Study. In it, Yelena and Valek must overcome a powerful magician set on reclaiming an artefact known as the Ice Moon, which has the ability to destroy all magic in the world, and even […]
Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews. It’s all about sharing the books we’ve picked up for the week, whether they are bought, borrowed, gifted, galleys, physical or virtual. Share your shelves and remember to visit Tynga’s Reviews where it all started to find more great books! Purchased: The Ruby Circle […]
A fun little look at mostly Janco’s point of view as they are recruited by a Sitian magician to help hunt down a powerful blood weapon being abused by a green Sitian rookie. I’ll be honest, Janco got on my nerves a bit. I like Ari’s calm stoicness. Janco never knows when to shut up […]
Besides the obvious ‘all of it’ Background Recently I came across a blog post from a freelancer who decided to time all the non-paid work they did related to their business (but that wasn’t actual business – like chasing clients, marketing, tweaking their website etc). The cynical side of me argues that it was written […]
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. It’s all about bookish lists! Share your lists and remember to stop by The Broke and the Bookish to see where it all began. Ten Book Related Problems I Have I don’t have enough room in my house for more bookshelves. […]
SUMMARY Everyone wants to kill Yelena, and she’s hunted some kind of fire demon from hell whilst trying to bring peace to both Sitia and Ixia and finding her true calling as a Soulfinder. WORLDBUILDING I’m not sure what more there is to say of worldbuilding that spans the entire series, but I can say […]
