Tag: Fantasy

Review: The Lost Boys by Lilian Carmine

Posted May 21, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

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.The Lost Boys by Lilian Carmine Series: The Lost Boys #1 Published by Ebury Press (Fiction) on October 24, 2013 Pages: 512 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Fate has brought them together. But will it also keep them apart? Having moved to a strange town, seventeen-year-old Joey Gray is feeling a little lost, until she meets a cute, mysterious boy near her new home. But there’s a very good reason why Tristan Halloway is always to be found roaming in the local graveyard… Perfect for fans of Stephenie Meyer and Lauren Kate, The Lost Boys is a magical, romantic tale of girl meets ghost. While it says in the blurb that The Lost Boys is ideal for Stephenie Meyer fans, do not let this put you off reading this book. Yes there is forbidden love, just exchange a vampire for a ghost, and a girl who has lots of friends she […]

Review: Thief’s Magic by Trudi Canavan

Posted May 17, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 2 Comments

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.Thief’s Magic by Trudi Canavan Series: Millennium’s Rule #1 Published by Orbit on May 13, 2014 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 553 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads In a world where an industrial revolution is powered by magic, Tyen, a student of archaeology, unearths a sentient book called Vella. Once a young sorcerer-bookbinder, Vella was transformed into a useful tool by one of the greatest sorcerers of history. Since then she has been collecting information, including a vital clue to the disaster Tyen’s world faces. Elsewhere, in an land ruled by the priests, Rielle the dyer’s daughter has been taught that to use magic is to steal from the Angels. Yet she knows she has a talent for it, and that there is a corrupter in the city willing to teach her how to use it — should she dare to risk the Angels’ wrath. But not everything […]

Review: Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris

Posted May 14, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 2 Comments

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.Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris Series: Midnight Texas #1 Published by Gollancz on May 6, 2014 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal Pages: 305 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town. There’s a pawnshop (where someone lives in the basement and runs the store during the night). There’s a diner (although those folk who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there’s new resident: Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own). If you stop at the one traffic light in town, then everything looks normal. But if you stay a while, you might learn the truth… So after last week’s mini review, the publisher sent […]

Mini Review: Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris

Posted May 8, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment

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.Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris Series: Midnight Texas #1 Published by Gollancz on May 6, 2014 Genres: Fiction, Film Genres, Mystery, Paranormal Pages: 305 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town. There’s a pawnshop (where someone lives in the basement and runs the store during the night). There’s a diner (although those folk who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there’s new resident: Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own). If you stop at the one traffic light in town, then everything looks normal. But if you stay a while, you might learn the truth… • EDIT Full review of Midnight Crossroad now LIVE!! […]

Pastime Pleasures #6 – Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Posted May 2, 2014 by Charlotte in Pastime Pleasures / 0 Comments

Welcome to my feature, Pastime Pleasures, posted every other Friday. Today is the turn of Stardust by Neil Gaiman. 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. Similar to the wonderful Sabriel (but written nearly a decade later) the world in Stardust is split, between the magical and the ‘normal world’, by a wall. On one side is a society based on Victorian sentiments. While on the other magic rules and the price of goods is not what you always suspect. Tristan decides to find a fallen star to prove his love for the local beauty but his quest is fraught with danger, and will he come back a changed man? Gaiman does a fantastic job of convincing the reader that the land of Fairie is a real place, after all it could be Scotland, couldn’t it? He also adds a bit of everything into the tale […]

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