"Doctor Walden looked glumly at the form she had o fill in." There are so many books set in magical schools, but have you ever wondered how it all looks from the teachers' point of view? Incandescent (which comes from a piece of poetry where it rhymes with 'adolescence', in case you're wondering) follows Saffy … Continue reading The Incandescent – Emily Tesh
"Selena picked her new home for no better reason than the dog laid down on the porch." As much as I love T Kingfisher's writing, I'm always a little cautious approaching one of her horror novels - I have this annoying habit of liking my sleep undisturbed 😉 So let me start off by saying … Continue reading Snake-Eater – T Kingfisher
"There was only one kind of weather in Camp Sunshine, and the wind threw rain by the rattling bucketload against the office window as Derek leaned myopically close to the typewriter's platen." Back in the 80s, the growing popularity of the role-playing board game, Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), met with a confused moral panic. In … Continue reading A Conventional Boy – Charles Stross
"The thing about life is that it is fundamentally impossible." We're back once again with the staff of the Stranger Times newspaper, purveyor of all that is weird and sometimes wonderful, if very rarely all that true. Still, it's a living. Following on from events in the series so far, it's nice to see life settling … Continue reading Relight My Fire – CK McDonnell
"Tristram Bleeker's mind went blank. Staring down the wrong end of a gun will have that effect on a man." We first met the staff of the Stranger Times newspaper - dedicated to all things weird, if only occasionally true 😉 - back in the self-titled first volume. Now on book 3 and things are not going … Continue reading Love Will Tear Us Apart – CK McDonnell
"Boom. Lassie from the slums winds up in a castle. Ain't that a right old fairy tale?" Ropa Moyo, 15-year-old 'ghostalker' and resident of a post-'Catastrophe' Edinburgh, still might not be too chuffed that her magical apprenticeship was downgraded to an unpaid internship, but there seems to be some benefits when she gets to attend … Continue reading The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle – TL Huchu
"So, I'm skint again." Welcome back to a shadowy, ghost-infested, post-'Catastrophe' (nope, still don't have the deets!) Edinburgh. Teenage ghostalker, Ropa Moyo, has a new gig, working for the Library of the Dead. Sounds ideal, but... yeah, no, Ropa's life rarely gets unfiltered 'good', and the first problem is when she's downgraded from 'assistant' to … Continue reading Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments – TL Huchu
"I'm not really supposed to be doing this, but a girl's gotta get paid." Meet Ropa Moyo, 14-year-old school dropout - oh, and a registered ghostalker. Delivering messages from the dead is how Ropa provides for her family of 3 (herself, little sister Izwi, and their grandmother) in a 'post-Catastrophe' (no, we never quite find … Continue reading The Library of the Dead – TL Huchu
Oof. Self-restraint was turned off this month! o.O Still, it's such a clean and civilised hobby lol! eBooks I've heard many, many good things about Ninth Rain by Jen Williams, and to be honest thought I'd maybe bought it a while back - nope! So a bargainous copy of The Winnowing Flame trilogy omnibus (Ninth … Continue reading Stacking the Shelves – July 2023
I always enjoy seeing these posts on other blogs, but to be honest didn't feel I 'acquired' (ahem) enough books in a week to make it worth while. Why did it take me so long to think about a monthly haul post, instead?! This month has been very generous on the book-buying, hurrah, so suddenly the … Continue reading Stacking the Shelves – January 2023
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