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 […]