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…
Category: Book Reviews
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.
Book Review: Christopher Fowler’s The Memory of Blood
Bryant and May are confounded by yet more impossible deaths that follow the impossible death of a baby, strangled by a puppet and tossed from a window.
Book Review: Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Deadmen Walking
To catch evil, it takes evil. And the captain and crew of the Sea Witch are deadmen with tales to tell and evil to banish back, back to their hell realms and repair the gates.
Book Review: Derek Benz and J.S. Lewis’ The Revenge of the Shadow King
Max Sumner and his three best friends, Harley, Ernie, and Natalia, find themselves caught up in the quest to save their town when the creatures from their card game come to life.
Book Review: Chris d’Lacey’s The Fire Within
Inspiration comes from an unexpected source when David moves in with Elizabeth Pennykettle and her eleven-year-old daughter, Lucy, and he discovers a new love.