Month: July 2014

Review: The Girl with all the Gifts by M. R. Carey

Posted July 9, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment
Review: The Girl with all the Gifts by M. R. Carey

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey Series: The Girl With All the Gifts #1 Published by Orbit on June 19, 2014 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller Pages: 461 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her “our little genius.” Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t like her. She jokes that she won’t bite, but they don’t laugh. Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children’s cells. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she’ll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn’t know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad. The Girl with All the Gifts is a […]

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Review: Only Remembered edited by Michael Morpurgo

Posted July 4, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Only Remembered edited by Michael Morpurgo

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Only Remembered by Michael Morpurgo Published by Jonathan Cape on July 3, 2014 Genres: Children’s, Historical, Non-Fiction, Novella, Short Stories, Young Adult Pages: 336 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads 2014 will mark one hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War. To mark the date, this beautiful anthology will collect favourite extracts, images and poems from some of the UK’s leading cultural, political and literary figures. Poems, short stories, personal letters, newspaper articles, scripts, photographs and paintings are just some of the elements of this astonishing collection, with cover and artwork by renowned illustrator, Ian Beck. Among the many contributors are Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall, Sir Andrew Motion, Miranda Hart, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Anthony Horowitz, Eoin Colfer, Antony Beevor, Emma Thompson, David Almond, Dr Rowan Williams, Richard Curtis, Joanna Lumley, Raymond Briggs, Shami Chakrabarti and Sir Tony Robinson. Royalties from the publication will be […]

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Review: Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

Posted July 2, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 4 Comments
Review: Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness Series: All Souls Trilogy #2 Published by Headline on February 14, 2013 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Romance, Science Fiction Pages: 630 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782 deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew’s past tightens around them, and they embark on a very different—and vastly more dangerous—journey. Shadow of Night beautiful weaves the fantasy elements with the rich detail of historical facts. The main problem with this book is that all the characters that we grew to love in A Discovery of Witches […]

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