Genre: Romance

Review: The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

Posted July 20, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment
Review: The Book of Life 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.The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness Series: All Souls Trilogy #3 Published by Headline on July 15, 2014 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Romance Pages: 592 Format: Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency. In the trilogy’s final volume, Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences. In ancestral homes and university laboratories, using ancient […]

Review: The Seventh Miss Hatfield by Anna Caltabiano

Posted July 17, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment
Review: The Seventh Miss Hatfield by Anna Caltabiano

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.The Seventh Miss Hatfield by Anna Caltabiano Series: Seventh Miss Hatfield #1 Published by Gollancz on July 17, 2014 Genres: Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Pages: 304 Format: Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Cynthia, an 11-year-old American, isn’t entirely happy with her life, comfortable though it is. Still, even she knows that she shouldn’t talk to strangers. So when her mysterious neighbour Miss Hatfield asked her in for a chat and a drink, Cynthia wasn’t entirely sure why she said yes. It was a decision that was to change everything. For Miss Hatfield is immortal. And now, thanks to a drop of water from the Fountain of Youth, Cynthia is as well. But this gift might be more of a curse, and it comes with a price. Rebecca is beginning to lose her personality, to take on the aspects of her neighbour. She is becoming the next Miss Hatfield. […]

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 […]

Review: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Posted June 25, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 5 Comments
Review: A Discovery of Witches 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.A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Series: All Souls Trilogy #1 Published by Headline on September 29, 2011 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Pages: 688 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the stunning first volume of the No.1 internationally bestsellling ALL SOULS trilogy. A world of witches, daemons and vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew – the forbidden love at the heart of it. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it’s an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. Now Diana has unwittingly exposed herself to a world she’s […]

Review: The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith

Posted June 18, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith

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.The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith Published by Headline on April 15, 2014 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Pages: 337 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads For fans of John Green, Stephanie Perkins and Sarah Ockler, THE GEOGRAPHY OF YOU AND ME is a story for anyone who’s ever longed to meet someone special, for anyone who’s searched for home and found it where they least expected it. Owen lives in the basement. Lucy lives on the 24th floor. But when the power goes out in the midst of a New York heatwave, they find themselves together for the first time: stuck in a lift between the 10th and 11th floors. As they await help, they start talking… The brief time they spend together leaves a mark. And as their lives take them to Edinburgh and San Francisco, to Prague and to Portland they can’t […]