Book Review: Chris D’Lacey’s Gauge
Lucy’s mother intends to stop Councilman Trustable and the town council from demolishing the old clock. But can a timing dragon really help?
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Book Review: Emily Rodda’s The Wizard of Rondo
After fiddling with the box while Mimi was away, Leo Zifkak and his cousin must put the world of Rondo to rights and find a missing wizard and free an innocent man.
Book Review: Sarah Prineas’ The Magic Thief
Having survived pickpocketing Nevery’s locus magicalicus, the wizard takes Conn on as an apprentice, even as they race to discover who or what is stealing the city’s magic.
Book Review: Simon R. Green’s Very Important Corpses
Ishmael Jones travels to the Scottish Highlands on a mysterious dual mission: find the impostor, protect the entitled, uncover the truth of the Coronach Creature.
Book Review: Chris D’Lacey’s Gruffen
When Lucy suspects there’s a ‘monster’ in her bedroom, her mum knows exactly what to do. Liz makes a guard dragon, Gruffen, to look after her…
Book Review: Naomi Novik’s Blood of Tyrants
From Japan to China, Laurence is tossed from xenophobes to political assassins. Worse, Napoleon has turned on the Russians, and they’re desperate for allies.
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Fair Play
It’s an affront to Elliot Mills on both levels, and he’ll do everything he can to discover who is willing to kill his father to prevent him from publishing his memoirs.
Book Review: Seanan McGuire’s Magic For Nothing
It’s Verity’s fault, and Antimony Price has to clean up her selfish sister’s mess…and risk her own life infiltrating the Covenant. It doesn’t help that she can’t control that little, ahem, fire trick.
Book Review: Helen Lester’s All For Me and None For All
Gruntly is a hog who refuses to share and is quite happy to take. And is he in for a surprise when he discovers the true treasure at the end of the hunt!
Book Review: Simon R. Green’s Dead Man Walking
A rogue agent has come in from the cold and wants to spill his secrets, and Ishmael Jones is sent to ascertain his real identity only to fall into a menacing series of incidents.