Category: Reviews
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New Book Review: Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
Lady Midnight is the first book in The Dark Artifices trilogy which was published in 2016. If you’ve read Clare’s previous Shadowhunter books, most notably The Mortal Instruments Series, which was also adapted for film, you’ll love reading this book. Clare creates an immersive, supernatural world that is a boon of escapism.
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Interlude In Kosovo by Robert Hedley
Dr. Claire Peters flees her unfaithful husband, James, to work for The World Health Organisation in post-war Kosovo. Her husband follows, hoping for reconciliation. Both take lovers, she a French Captain in KFOR (Kosovo Force), part of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo) he a beautiful Kosovar, wife of a senior member of the KLA…
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New Book Review: VOX by Christina Dalcher
The story follows our heroine Dr Jean McClellan as she fights against this corrupt system, above all else for her daughter Sonia, who has known nothing but the Pure Movement.
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Booktube Review: Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
Hey Bookworms! Today I posted my book review of Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare to my Booktube channel. See below to watch it! Lady Midnight is the first book in The Dark Artifices trilogy and was published in 2016 in the U.K. by Simon&Schuster. This book was gifted to me by LoveReading UK and Simon&Schuster…
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MANGA Review: Orange by Ichigo Takano
Orange has a distinctive concept and is as sweet and charming as a dusting of icing sugar. It portrays a typical romance with an imaginative twist and extremely likeable characters.
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Book Review: Time Of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski
The scene is being set for the gathering of the Conclave of Mages, where sorcerers throughout the four kingdoms will gather on the Isle of Thanedd to discuss political affairs and the threat of war from the land of Nilfgaard. Meanwhile a rebellion is brewing that will divide the Council concerning the fate of Ciri,…
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Book Review: The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwall
Cornwall maintains the action filled momentum of The Last Kingdom in this sequel novel, with a lively and animated plot that was consistent throughout the book. I enjoyed the rawness of the story-telling which complemented the book’s historical setting, during an age of battles, war and rebellion.
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Booktube Review! The Tattooist Of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
I just posted my Booktube review of The Tattooist Of Auschwitz by Heather Morris. View it here and tell me in the comments if you have read this book before and what you thought about it.
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Classic Book Review: Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
I feel no review on such as book as Gone With The Wind would be complete without some form of commentary of the slavery situation that was prevalent in those days. This book offered invaluable insight into the plight that black people faced under the tyranny of the Old South
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New Book Review: The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwall
When the Northumbrians fail to defeat an army of bloodthirsty Danish Vikings, Uhtred is taken hostage where he learns to fight, talk and act like a Dane. As he grows into a battle hardened man, he faces the internal conflict of fighting alongside his English countrymen and his affinity towards Danish ways and customs.
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