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! This week I picked […]
Author: Nemo
A lover of kittens and all things sparkly, Nemo has a degree in English Literature and specialises in reviewing contemporary, paranormal, mystery/thriller, historical, sci-fi and fantasy Young Adult fiction. She is especially drawn to novels about princesses, strong female friendships, magical powers, and assassins.
Book Review: There’s A Bear in There (And He Wants Swedish) by Merridy Eastman
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 […]
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 […]
Book Review: Preloved by Shirley Marr
Publisher: Black Dog Books/Walker Books Release Date: 1 April 2012 Genre: YA, Paranormal Romance Format: Paperback Page Count: 272 Source: Owned Links: Goodreads | Book Depository | Author website Rating: Preloved has one of the coolest concepts on the block (a ghost from the Eighties? It was only the so-daggy-it’s-cool era), and add to that major bonus points for a YA heroine who’s Chinese. […]
Book Review: The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
My rating: In Twilight, Bella goes insane when her mother re-marries and ships her off to live with her absent father. In trying to cope with this, Bella imagines a world where she is the centre of attention from every boy in school, especially the hottest, most desirable Edward Cullen. But Edward isn’t just the most […]