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  • Shattered Worlds Challenge: by the skin of my teeth

    Well, it was looking like I might not manage a Shattered Worlds book report this week. Life’s been manic and I haven’t had as much time for reading as I would have liked. However, I’m delighted to report that I reached THE END of The Magic or the Rulership by Emily Martha Sorensen while I…

  • Shattered Worlds challenge: two worlds collide

    My Shattered Worlds pick for this week was The Space in Between by Jen Minkman. Now, I’ve read Jen’s work before so I knew I was going to be in safe hands. The Space in Between was fabulous. I am entirely in love with hero Hayko, and the technical stuff that only writers ought to…

  • Shattered Worlds Challenge: A Tale of Two Reapers

    Well, I hope I’ve made up for my fail last week by zipping through two Shattered World stories this week. I read Mistress Grim by Jane Redd, and A Reaper Made by Liz Long back to back. It was really interesting reading them one after the other, because they were both stories featuring a female…

  • A bumper book week

    Well, I have been a reading machine this week with three books comfortably under my belt and a fourth nearly done! First up was Rhoda Baxter’s Girl in Trouble. I know Rhoda IRL, and I absolutely love it when I’m properly able to rave about a friend’s book. Girl in Trouble isn’t my usual genre,…

  • Girl in Trouble blog splash

    Something a bit different today, readers. A good friend of mine, Rhoda Baxter, has a new book out, Girl in Trouble. As well as being a friend, she’s also a fabulous writer and I jumped at the chance to be part of her blog splash. For the splash, Rhoda asked me to blog on an…

  • Shattered Worlds Challenge: Curse Breaker

    My blog is late this week, because I only finished Curse Breaker last night (not a slow reader, I’ve been taken up with lots of non-fiction reading this week, all about marketing, social media and advertising, yawn). Curse Breaker is just as lovely as I hoped it might be: a beautifully-realised fantasy world with some fabulous…

  • Shattered Worlds challenge: black-eyed horrors and more boys

    Well, my learn from my reading this week was to GIVE IT A CHANCE, FOR GOODNESS SAKE! This week I picked Death Knocks from Shattered Worlds. It starts with two boys playing console games while they babysit one of their little sisters. I’m sorry to have to admit I’d probably have put it down right there…

  • Shattered Worlds Challenge – a surprising Scourge

    This week I read A G Henley’s The Scourge. This took me by surprise in a lot of very good ways. What seemed at first to be a pre-industrial fantasy world turned out to be set in a post-apocalyptic future. There were other twists like that, but I don’t want to give away any spoilers.…

  • Shattered Worlds challenge – star-crossed lovers

    I’m on a roll, readers. This week I read and reviewed Slayer by JA Armitage and JA Culican with time to spare. When a trainee dragon-slayer and a dragon shifter come face to face there are bound to be sparks. I loved this Romeo-and-Juliet story about Julianna and Ash discovering the truth about their villages’…

  • Shattered Worlds challenge – that sunny Caribbean sky

    I travelled in time and space this week, with Kristy Tate’s The Pirate Episode. It’s a time travel romance which took me to the sunny Caribbean during the American revolutionary war. I loved it! The sense of place was gorgeous – I could feel the sun on my face. Kristy’s writing is light and deft…