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Pastime Pleasures #2 – North Child by Edith Pattou

Posted March 7, 2014 by Charlotte in Pastime Pleasures / 0 Comments

Welcome to my feature, Pastime Pleasures, posted every other Friday. Today’s is the turn of North Child by Edith Pattou. Here I will look at books that have given me great pleasure in the past. These are books I can read over and over again. The only rule is that the book must have been published five or more years ago. North Child blends the traditional fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast, and Norwegian folk tale of East of the Sun and West of the Moon to create a tale of myth woven into fantasy. I had never heard of the fairy tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon, before reading this book. However, once I had finished I was immediately intrigued and wanted to explore more. This book will take you on a journey to the snow covered north to France and back again (no this is not the hobbit). Rose grows as she journeys to her destiny. Told from the viewpoint of different characters, you cannot but help be drawn in to this […]

Monthly Round-up! February 2014

Posted February 28, 2014 by Charlotte in Monthly Round-up! / 0 Comments

Monthly Round-up, linking everything that has happened in the last month, posted on the last day of said month. This Round-up February 2014. Yay! So I have now completed my first month of my blog (ok… three weeks, but there is no need to be picky…) and I think it has gone pretty well. I have nearly 100 followers (thank you guys!), and I am pretty impressed by that 🙂 Currently reading: Monthly feature, linking everything that has happened in the last month, posted on the last day of said month. Reviews: Pastime Pleasures: Challenges: I started a new challenge: 100 Books Everyone Should Read. Other Blog stuff: I started my weekly feature: It’s a Bookish Life I started my every two weeks feature: Pastime Pleasures I won two Librarything giveaways – As a Thief in the Night by Chuck Crabbe and Of Sea and Stone by Kate Avery Ellison. Reviews will appear as soon as I have received and reviewed the books. So what do you think of my round-up February 2014? What have you read this month? Let me know in the […]

Review: Girl Missing by Tess Gerritsen

Posted February 26, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

Girl Missing by Tess Gerritsen Published by Ballantine Books on February 25th 2014 Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Thriller Pages: 352 Format: E-Book Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY. She’s young. She’s beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets – except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. THE NEXT BODY IS A WARNING. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets. The police are sceptical. The mayor won’t listen. And Kat’s chief suspect is one of the town’s most prominent citizens. THE FINAL BODY . . . MIGHT BE HERS. With the death toll rising, Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is closer than she ever dreamt. And every move she makes could be her very last. In the abridge the author explains that this is a transitional book from the romance genre to the criminal one. Published originally in 1994, Girl Missing has been updated […]

Review: Noble Conflict by Malorie Blackman

Posted February 23, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

Noble Conflict by Malorie Blackman Published by Doubleday Childrens on June 6th 2013 Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 357 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Years after a violent war destroyed much of the world, Kaspar has grown up in a society based on peace and harmony. But beyond the city walls, a vicious band of rebels are plotting to tear this peace apart. It is up to the Guardians – an elite peacekeeping force – to protect the city, without ever resorting to the brutal methods of their enemy. When Kaspar joins the Guardians, he has a chance encounter with a rebel – a beautiful girl named Rhea. Haunted from that moment on by strange visions and memories – memories that could only belong to Rhea – he realises he hasn’t been told the truth about what the rebels really want, and what he’s really fighting for. Noble Conflict is set in a dystopia world. To learn about the origin of the Alliance through history extracts at the beginning of certain chapters. These extracts add touching […]

Pastime Pleasures #1 – Sabriel by Garth Nix

Posted February 21, 2014 by Charlotte in Pastime Pleasures / 1 Comment

Welcome to my new feature, Pastime Pleasures, posted every other Friday, today’s is the turn of Sabriel by Garth Nix. Here I will look at books that have given me great pleasure in the past. These are books I can read over and over again. The only rule is that the book must have been published five or more years ago. Sabriel is a fantasy book which reads like reality, it is a world that is not much different from our own. OK so there are some large difference… There is magic… The dead that refuse to stay dead… And a TALKING CAT!! (Wish my cats would talk). Yet when reading Sabriel the Old Kingdom feels familiar and is a comfortable place to be in. Like Sabriel the reader has to deal with good vs. evil; with coming of age; and with the difficulty of making hard decisions. This is a book you must read. Sabriel is a great introduction into a world that seems so different from our own, yet so familiar. It is a great start to a […]

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