ARC Book Review: Scent of Magic by Maria V Snyder

Publisher: HarlequinTeen Publishing Date: January 1st 2013 Genre: YA, High Fantasy Format: Paperback Page count: 414 My rating: I have yet to find an author – apart from David Gemmell and perhaps Stephen King (whom I have not read and thus it is only hearsay) – that has done what Snyder has done. Snyder has delivered Poison Study in entirely […]

Top Ten Freebie! (10)

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. This week’s list: Top Ten Tuesday Freebie! Your time to pick whatever topic you’d like! Favourite fictional […]

Top Ten Favourite Kick-Ass Heroines (9)

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. This week’s list: Top Ten Favourite Kick-Ass Heroines 1. Rose from Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead 2. Yelena from […]

Stacking The Shelves (8)

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 […]

Book Review: Poison Study by Maria V Snyder

Publisher: Mira Books Publishing Date: June 1 2004 Genre: Fantasy Format: Paperback Page count: 409 My rating: When Yelena is saved from execution only to become the General’s new food taster, captive in this position by a poison due to kill her in two days if she does not regularly take the rare antidote, she acknowledges this only chance to […]

Top Ten Favourite Authors in X Genre (7)

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. This week’s list: Top Ten Favorite Authors In the YA ‘Genre’ I don’t feel that YA is […]

Top Ten Series I Haven’t Finished (4)

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. This week’s list: Top Ten Series I Haven’t Finished Either the complete series is unreleased, or I […]

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 […]