Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs RaeleighReads rating: 5 out of 5 coffee cups “Scattered toys, evidence of children long gone, lay skinned in dust. Creeping mold had turned window-adjacent walls black and furry. Fireplaces were throttled with vines that had descended from the roof and had begun to spread across… Read More Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Book Review
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Published April 8th 2014 by Harper (first published June 18th 2013) 181 Pages Goodreads Summary: A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at… Read More The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Book Review
Title: An Ember in the Ashes Author: Sabaa Tahir Published: 2015 Pages: 436 Genre: Yong Adult/Sci Fi/Fantasy Format: Book borrowed from the library My rating: 4/5
Featuring the most exhilarating heroine in memory and a sophisticated, endlessly ingenious, brilliantly paced narrative through dark territory and deep mystery, this is a new milestone in literary suspense and a major new breakout book from the long acclaimed master.At twenty-two, Bibi Blair’s doctors tell her that she’s dying. Two days later, she’s impossibly… Read More Ashley Bell – Book Review
Stone and a Hard Place It’s hard enough for Alastair Stone to keep his two lives—powerful mage and mundane Occult Studies professor—separate without an old friend asking him to take on a new apprentice. Especially after a university colleague wants him to investigate a massive old house for things that go bump in the… Read More Stone and a Hard Place – Book Review
This one was a tough pick for rating between 4.5 and 5. I’m not a big giver of 5 stars, so I had to really think about this one. And it was a hard choice, but my rating would go to 4.5 stars. That’s not to say that it was a bad story, it… Read More Clockwork Angel – Book Review
In Naomi Novik’s Uprooted, a wizard called the Dragon protects a small mountain village from the evil forest called the Wood. Every ten years the dragon takes one young woman from the village as tribute. She will live in the Dragon’s castle the next ten years, and when she is released, much to the horror of her… Read More Uprooted – Book Review
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