Rating: 3.5 out of 5 starsA seven-year-old girl puts a nail-gun to her grandmother’s neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling…
YA Fiction Review: ‘Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters’ by Rick Riordan
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson is finding his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson,…
Historical Fiction Review: ‘The Lincoln Conspiracy: A Novel’ by Timothy L. O’Brien
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars SynopsisA nation shattered by its president’s murder. Two diaries that reveal the true scope of an American conspiracy. A detective determined to bring the truth to light, no matter what it costs him From…
YA Book Review: ‘This Is Not A Test’ by Courtney Summers
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 starsSynopsis It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it…
Historical Fiction Review: ‘The Gilded Lily’ by Deborah Swift
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 starsSynopsis Winter, 1661. In her short life Sadie Appleby has never left rural Westmorland. But one night she is rudely awoken by her older and bolder sister, Ella. She has robbed her employer and is…
Review: ‘The Man in the Picture’ by Susan Hill
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Synopsis A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver’s old professor in Cambridge. On this cold winter’s night, its eerie secret is revealed by the…
Review: ‘Before I Go To Sleep’ by S.J.Watson
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Synopsis (taken from Goodreads.com)Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love–all forgotten overnight. And the one…
Review: ‘Silent in the Grave’ by Deanna Raybourn
Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5 Synopsis “To say I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband’s dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor…” For Lady Julia Grey, her husband’s sudden…
Review: ‘A Modern Witch’ by Debora Geary
Date finished: 24 July 2011 Rating: 3.5 stars Format: eBook Source: From the author via LibraryThing Member Giveaways Genre: Urban fantasy Published: by Fireweed Publishing in March 2011 The Synopsis Can you live 28 years without discovering you’re a witch?…
Review: ‘Never Let Me Go’ by Kazuo Ishiguro
Date finished: 9 March 2011 Rating: 3.5 stars Format: eBook Source: Bought (December 2010) Genre: Literary fiction; Dystopian fiction Published: in March 2005 by Faber and Faber The Synopsis (taken from waterstones.com) Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham…