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Title: Of Things Gone Astray Author: Janina Matthewson Series: Stand-alone Rating: 5 Stars 288 pages Expected publication February 3rd 2015 by The Friday Project Review copy received from the publisher Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository Literary fiction has the reputation of being high-brow, inaccessible, and overly complicated. Of Things Gone Astray proves that the […]
Title: World War Z Author: Max Brooks Series: None Rating: 3 Stars 343 pages Published 2011 by Duckworth Bought Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository World War Z have had a rocky start. Over the course of two years, I picked up this book over three times. I read the first page, got annoyed, put […]
Title: Disgrace Author: J.M. Coetzee First Publication: 1999 Like many post-modern literary novels, Disgrace starts with sex. Professor David Lurie thinks he has everything worked out. Once a week he visits a prostitute, he teaches at the university, and once in a while he talks to his ex-wife or his daughter. An affair with a […]
Title: Moonglow Author: Kristen Callihan Series: Darkest London #2 Rating: 4 Stars 384 pages Published July 31st 2012 by Little Brown Review copy received from the publisher Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository The first book in the Darkest London series left me feeling angry and frustrated. One of my biggest pet peeves, lack of […]
I read this book as part of the Classics Club Challenge – I challenged myself to read fifty classics picked by me in the next three years. To find out more, you can see my list or visit the Classics Club website. Title: To the Lighthouse Author: Virginia Woolf First Publication: 1927 Goodreads To the […]
Title: Moriarty Author: Anthony Horowitz Series: Sherlock Holmes #2 Rating: 3 Stars 304 pages Published December 9th 2014 by Harper Review copy received from the publisher Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository I’m a huge self-proclaimed fan of anything Sherlock. Recently I’ve started dabbling in the original works by Arthur Conan Doyle, while simultaneously gorging […]
Title: The Stranger Author: Albert Camus First Publication: 1942 The Stranger is a short novel written by Nobel-prize winner essentialist-but-not-really Camus. There are a few things you should know about this book. One, it has plenty of philosophical meaning and such, but if you’re not interested in that, the plot isn’t very strong. Two, if […]
Title: The Mysteries Author: Lisa Tuttle Series: None Rating: 4 Stars 464 pages Published September 4th 2014 by Jo Fletcher Books Review copy provided by the author Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository The Mysteries is The Cuckoo’s Calling with fae. It follows private investigator Ian, from his earliest encounter with a missing person in […]
Title: Eye Spy Author: Tahir Shah Series: None Rating: 4 Stars 241 pages Published July 2013 by Secretum Mundi Publishing Review copy received from the publisher Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository As veteran wearer of contact lenses, I’m fine with eyes. I don’t mind touching my own eyes, and I’m pretty confident that I […]
Nyx at Night is the darkly delicious event at Nyx Book Reviews. To see all of the posts, go to the schedule Although a big part of Halloween is the scares, not everyone enjoys that tingling sensation in their spine and quickly beating hearts. Luckily, there are plenty of amazing reads out these featuring witches, […]