Jennie
Jennie Blake is a native Californian who moved to Manchester in 2008 after getting married. The biggest part of the move was bringing over 1,000 books across the pond with her – luckily, she doesn’t own much else!
The Hunt, by Andrew Fukuda
Reviewed on May 8, 2012
The Hunt is full of monsters, the sort that run and hunt and terrorize, and these monsters are human-hunting machines. By now, the humans of the world are nearly extinct, kept carefully in “heper” colonies, protected from those who cannot help but hunt and kill them. Well, nearly all of the humans are kept in [...]
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, by Michelle Hodkin
Reviewed on March 2, 2012
This is a good time to be a young adult reader (or any kind of reader, really), and after the flood of vampires and zombies, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer takes its readers in a different direction, without losing any of the tension and terror that have proved so popular. Mara Dyer begins with a [...]
Everneath, by Brodi Ashton
Reviewed on February 16, 2012
Nikki Beckett is an unusual heroine; she has already fallen farther than she had ever imagined possible, down beneath the earth, in a place called Everneath. She has been there for a hundred years, trapped in the Feed, losing her emotions to feed someone else’s immortality. Nikki is unusual in another way as well, for [...]
Smoulder by Brenna Yovanoff
Reviewed on January 5, 2012
Smoulder is Brenna Yovanoff’s newest standalone novel, and it introduces one of the more…unique… demons in literature, Daphne. Daphne, it must be said, has two metal teeth. If this doesn’t immediately clue the readers in to her unusual life (and parentage), her home quickly will. She lives in Pandemonium, you see, between the fiery pits [...]
Goliath, by Scott Westerfeld
Reviewed on September 30, 2011
Goliath, like Leviathan and Behemoth before it, is an example of Scott Westerfeld, steampunk, and young adult literature at their best. Set in an alternate history where World War One is fought between the Clankers, machine making industrialists, and the Darwinists, who breed genetically engineered animals that serve as their messengers, healers, and weapons of [...]
The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood, by Rick Yancey
Reviewed on September 28, 2011
“We are the sons of Adam. It is in our nature to turn and face the faceless, to name the nameless thing. It drives us to greatness; it brings us to ruin.” To name something is to open it up to exploration and understanding, to mark, characterise, and comprehend. Pellinore Warthrop has devoted his life [...]
Fury, by Elizabeth Miles
Reviewed on September 1, 2011
Fury is a surprise. A story where there are very few “good guys” and where mistakes, understandable, human, or terrible, weave through the plot and push the story towards a cliff-hanger of a conclusion. Fury’s world is full of the sort of justice that proves just how difficult it can be to even the score [...]
Haunting Violet, by Alyxandra Harvey
Reviewed on July 21, 2011
Violet Willoughby has grown up surrounded by lies. Entangled in her mother’s sham seances, Violet has spent her life helping convince the wealthy and powerful that they can contact the dead. She and the rest of her make-shift family have scrambled up from the poorest districts in London to a place of semi-respectable celebrity. They [...]
The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath, by Rick Yancey
Reviewed on June 23, 2011
Rick Yancey’s Monstrumologist series is terrifying, funny, heart-breaking, and easily identified by the readers muttering: “No, don’t go over there! Look out!” as if telling the characters the danger they are in will help them come out of their adventures alive and well. Both of the books in the Monstrumologist series are not to be [...]
Vampirates: Immortal War, by Justin Somper
Reviewed on June 22, 2011
Justin Somper’s Vampirates series has been a swashbuckling, sensational adventure, and it reaches an absolutely edge-of-the-seat conclusion with the final volume: Immortal War. There are epic battles, absolutely evil shenanigans, and all of the characters that we have come to know and love. One of Somper’s greatest strengths is in creating characters that appeal and [...]
The Demon’s Surrender, by Sarah Rees Brennan
Reviewed on June 10, 2011
Sarah Rees Brennan’s The Demon’s Surrender is a satisfying and fast paced conclusion to her Demon’s Lexicon trilogy. This time, we watch the action through the eyes of Sin, the heir apparent and most gifted dancer of the Goblin Market. Sin has always thought of the Market as particularly hers, something that she will lead [...]
Another look at: Darkness Becomes Her, by Kelly Keaton
Reviewed on June 9, 2011
Ari’s life has been a series of misfortunes wrapped in tragedy. Orphaned as a young girl, she bounces from foster home to foster home, finally ending up the apprentice and adopted daughter of a pair of bounty hunters. She’s got survival skills, a sarcastic way with words, and, to her continual annoyance, hair and eyes [...]
Liberator, by Richard Harland
Reviewed on June 8, 2011
Richard Harland’s Worldshaker was an action packed foray into the steampunk genre, and its sequel, Liberator, is no different. Just a few months after a successful revolution, the juggernaut “Worldshaker” is now the Filthy-controlled “Liberator”, a beacon of hope in a world that once seemed as rigid as the iron shell of the ship. Instead [...]
WorldShaker, by Richard Harland
Reviewed on May 27, 2011
Down, down, down. His very worst childhood nightmare had come true. Utter helplessness, nothing to clutch onto. Scrabbling at the smooth metal of the chute, he only added a corkscrew twist to his fall. By the time he hit bottom, he was travelling at tremendous speed. All he knew was that something caught him under [...]
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