Book 5: Discover the Destroyer Publishing Date: January 2000 Narrator: David My rating: The Everworld team are at the mercy of a dragon who has demanded they retrieve his stolen goods for him or else their replaced hearts will burn with dragon fire in six days. The team plus Senna (who is a witch and […]
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DNF (did not finish) Reviews (3)
I try to finish every book I start to read, but sometimes it’s hard. Sometimes it’s impossible. Sometimes books are so badly written that it’s an insult to expect me to waste my very valuable time on them. Other times the book just isn’t working for me, and it’s a waste of my time when […]
ARC Book Review: The Secret Diamond Sisters by Michelle Madow
Title: The Secret Diamond Sisters (The Secret Diamond Sisters #1) Author: Michelle Madow Publisher: HarlequinTeen Aus Release Date: 1nd April 2014 Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance Format: paperback Page Count: 382 Source: Publisher Rating: I can’t really talk about this novel without spoilers, but it’s okay, because there’s not really a plot, just a love dodecahedron. The Secret Diamond Sisters is the […]
Project Everworld: Book #4 Realm of the Reaper
Book 4: Realm of the Reaper Publishing Date: November 1999 Narrator: Jalil My rating: This book picks up again where #3 left off, with the kids wandering the forest, lost and clueless and without a goal in mind. When they stumble upon a prison-city, they come face to face with Loki’s daughter Hel. Desperate to escape, they jump […]
New Release Review: Black Beast by Nenia Campbell
Title: Black Beast (Shadow Thane #1) Author: Nenia Campbell Publisher: Nenia Campbell Release Date: 2nd April 2014 Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy Format: ebook Page Count: 284 (paperback) Source: Author (giveaway) Rating: Nenia is a friend of mine, but as you can see that hasn’t stopped me from being any less annoyingly opinionated on this […]
ARC Book Review: Adaptation by Malinda Lo
Title: Adaptation (Adaptation #1) Author: Malinda Lo Publisher: Hodder Children’s Books Release Date: 3rd April 2014 (original: 18th September 2012) Genre: Young Adult, paranormal, romance Format: ebook Page Count: 432 (paperback) Source: Netgalley Rating: Birds are attacking planes and dropping dead from the sky. Reese and David are trapped in an airport when the planes are […]
ARC Book Review: The Falconer by Elizabeth May
Title: The Falconer Author: Elizabeth May Publisher: Chronicle Books Release Date: 6th May 2014 Genre: New Adult, paranormal Format: ebook Page Count: 336 (paperback) Source: Edelweiss Rating: Nope. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. This book started off very strongly and ended up with me ragequitting. Or, I would have ragequit if the book didn’t end in […]
Project Everworld: Book #3 Enter the Enchanted
Book 2: Enter the Enchanted Publishing Date: September 1999 Narrator: April My rating: So if this book sucked as well, I was ready to give up on Project EverWorld. And yes, the writing was surprisingly bad and juvenile, which I can’t even comprehend, because this is K.A. fucking Applegate who wrote beautifully the first half […]
ARC Book Review: Grimm Fairy Tales – Oz by Joe Brusha
Title: Grimm Fairy Tales – Oz Author: Joe Brusha Publisher: Zenescope Entertainment Release Date: 18th March 2014 Genre: fairytale retelling Format: ebook Page Count: 156 (paperback) Source: Netgalley Rating: An adult re-imagining of The Wizard of Oz, a skimpily-dressed adult Dorothy finds herself embroiled in the battle of a foreign land where it is revealed she […]
Book Review: Ember by Bettie Sharpe
Title: Ember Author: Bettie Sharpe Publisher: Bettie Sharpe Release Date: 1st November 2007 Genre: fairytale retelling Format: ebook Page Count: 94 (paperback) Source: Amazon Rating: EMBER is an adult retelling of Cinderella that turns the classic tropes on its head, adds saucy smut, deepens absolutely everything and is all-round fucking amazing. I absolutely loved loved loved […]