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 […]
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Abhorsen has used Saraneth to bind me into loving this series
Despite their new destinies, Lirael and Sam continue their plan to recue Nick and stop whatever he is unearthing. Slowly the pair come to discover what it is: Lirael embraces her destiny as not only the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, but a Remembrancer as well, someone who can See the past like her Clayr sisters can See the […]
Project Silver Brumby: Book 4 Silver Brumby Kingdom
This book continues on from where Silver Brumbies of the South ended, with Baringa growing up and Dawn with foal. Baringa has to battle all of the elements, it seems, so he’s faced moving to a new kingdom, fire and snow and storm. The only thing left to conquer is flood, and unfortunately the flood […]
Lirael by Garth Nix
I’ll be honest with you: Lirael is over 500 pages of largely non-action, worldbuilding, and characters who make terrible mistakes and have to overcome them largely by their own fortitude. But the difference between Lirael and other books with little action driving the plot is that Nix is consistent with his characters. He doesn’t tell […]
Project Silver Brumby: Book 3 Silver Brumbies of the South
To some, it might be disappointing that Thowra’s own son by Golden, Lightning, lacks the bush wisdom inherited by Bel Bel, Thowra’s mother, and passed on down to Kunama, his creamy daughter by Golden, by virtue of Boon Boon, Thowra’s second favourite and wisest mare. But in reality it shows that Lightning was not going […]
Sabriel by Garth Nix
You know sometimes when you read a book that’s just so good you get kind of overwhelmed and when you finish it you just need to cry to let all of your feelings out? Yeah. This. Fucking. Book. I read it a couple of times when I was a teenager but I haven’t read it […]
Project Silver Brumby: Book 2 The Silver Brumby’s Daughter
This book is set nearly a year after the end of The Silver Brumby, when Throwa took a wild leap for freedom out of the big brumby drive that led many a man to think he was now dead, a Ghost Horse. He’s been hiding in his beautiful Secret Valley with Golden, Kunama, Boon Boon, […]
Project Silver Brumby: Book 1 The Silver Brumby
SUMMARY Follows the early life and first few years of adulthood of the magnificent ‘silver’ brumby Thowra as he fights for a herd against a mighty rival The Brolga and for his freedom from the men who hunt the wild brumbies of the Snowy Mountains. PLOT I think this kind of book is called a […]
Hidden by Marianne Curley
SUMMARY Ebony is a sheltered, naïve sixteen year old who doesn’t know she is really a kidnapped angel, hidden away in a valley while her real family searches for her. When she bumps into her charge outside a nightclub, the good guys finally find her, and now they have to convince her to return to […]
Project Tomorrow: The Ellie Chronicles – Circle of Flight
Ellie arrives home to find Gavin gone, and spends over half the book getting him back from the terrorists who kidnapped him looking for Ellie and the Scarlet Pimpernel. Then Ellie loses him again as Child Services takes him away. I’ve loved this series, really loved the spin-off of life after the war as well. […]