"Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others." RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a story about love, life and lobster every Tuesday... Love isn't an exact science - but no one told Don Tillman. A thirty-nine-year-old geneticist, Don's never had a second date. So … Continue reading The Rosie Project | Graeme Simsion | Review

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will" RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: Eleven-year-old orphan Anne Shirley has just arrived at Green Gables, and already her guardians want to send her back. First, she’s not the boy the Cuthberts expected. Second, she talks too much. … Continue reading Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery | Review

"Death was inevitable, but it was not the enemy. Comfort could be found in both its solitude and the embrace of the others who had fallen before him." RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: The Shroud of Prophecy tests fate to discover what happens when the path of good and right, the triumph of light over darkness, the … Continue reading Fate of the Fallen | Kel Kade | Review

"Oh I'm the Queen of Minaris,  And all the ladies have to curtsy to me,  Curtsy to me,  Curtsy to me, In the City of the Fish." RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: In a world where magic is so powerful it has been outlawed, Cass is a rare creature - an obtuse, someone who is unaffected by … Continue reading The Conspiracy of Magic | Harriet Whitehorn | Review

"I am afraid I cannot name them all, but overall they were known as Mele's Sword Fighters or the Company of Eight" RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: When Ravellous's Circus Ship comes to Minaris, Cass is determined to audition despite her guardian Mrs Pott's disapproval. But when her chance is snatched away from her, Cass refuses to … Continue reading The Company of Eight | Harriet Whitehorn | Review

"Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world." RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew's old friend, the School of Night. As the search … Continue reading Shadow of Night | Deborah Harkness | Review

"One for the rook, one for the crow, one to rot and one to grow." RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: 1906: A large manor house, Wakes End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wakenhyrst. It is the home of Edmund Stearn and his family - a historian, scholar and land-owner, … Continue reading Wakenhyrst | Michelle Paver | Review

"What? I am a one - word question, a one - man patience test. What? What language would we speak without ears?" RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 SYNOPSIS: The Perseverance is a book of loss, contested language and praise, where elegies for the poet's father sit alongside meditations on the d/Deaf experience. REVIEW: Firstly, I want to say … Continue reading The Perseverance | Raymond Antrobus | Review

"There's only so much you can make being described as somebody you're not." RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Its hard to get your come up, though, when you're labeled "trouble" at school and your fridge at home is empty after you mom loses her job. … Continue reading On The Come Up | Angie Thomas | Review