Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Feyre is a young human girl who hunts in the forest that she lives in to feed her two older sisters, Nesta and Elain, and her crippled father. One day, she goes into the forest and kills a wolf. After she has sold its pelt, she is ambushedContinue reading “2021 Book #74 – A Court of Thorns and Roses”
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2021 Book #72 – The Priory of the Orange Tree
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – In this epic fantasy, we are introduced to a world divided by religion and ideology. At one side of the world, the house of Barethnet rules the realm, led by the beautiful queen Sabran the ninth. She must give the realm and heir in order to keep theContinue reading “2021 Book #72 – The Priory of the Orange Tree”
2021 Book #65 – The Girl of Ink and Stars
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Isabella Riosse is the daughter of a cartographer, trapped on an island ruled by a cruel governor. One day a young girl in her class is murdered by an unknown but terrifying beast, and Isabella’s best friend (who is also the governor’s daughter) disappears into the island’s forgottenContinue reading “2021 Book #65 – The Girl of Ink and Stars”
2021 Book #60 – The Broken Raven
Medium – Book About the Book – Leading on from ‘The Good Hawk’, the second book in the Shadow Skye Trilogy begins a few weeks after the previous book ends. We again see Jaime and Agatha, our heroes from the previous story, but also meet Sigrid, the eponymous Broken Raven of the title. The storyContinue reading “2021 Book #60 – The Broken Raven”
2021 Book #53 – The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Medium – Book About the Book – Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia live in a version of 19th century Britain which never existed, which is full of wild wolves that rule the countryside and hunt people. Bonnie’s kind parents, Sir Willoughby and Lady Green leave to go on a sea voyage to improve Lady Green’sContinue reading “2021 Book #53 – The Wolves of Willoughby Chase”
2021 Book #40 – Priestess of the White
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Auraya is a young woman who is picked to be one of the White – five humans who become immortal and serve as the sword and shield of the gods. They are imbued with magic, and given special properties, but Auraya is different – gifted with strong magicContinue reading “2021 Book #40 – Priestess of the White”
2021 Book #27 – The Assassin’s Blade
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – From the universe of the ‘Throne of Glass’ comes the prequel to the series, ‘The Assassin’s Blade’. It follows our main character, Celaena Sardothien, in five mini-stories, charting her beginnings as Aderlan’s assassin, to her fall – leading to the first book of the series, ‘The Throne ofContinue reading “2021 Book #27 – The Assassin’s Blade”
2021 Book #25 – The Wicked King
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – The sequel to ‘The Cruel Prince’, and set a few months after, Jude is now the chief advisor to High King Carden – the cruel prince of the previous novel. She has Carden under an enchantment, where he has to follow her orders for a year and aContinue reading “2021 Book #25 – The Wicked King”
2021 Book #24 – Maskerade
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Agnes Nitt, a young woman of Lancre, decides that she is going to go to Ankh Morpork to make her way in the world as an opera singer – she does have a rather ‘magical’ voice. But the witches of Lancre (Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg) have decidedContinue reading “2021 Book #24 – Maskerade”
2021 Book #9 – The Good Hawk
Medium – Book About the Book – Agatha is a young ‘Hawk’, a member of a clan in the Isle of Skye, who patrols the sea wall, looking for enemies and keeping her clan safe. She has Down’s Syndrome, and although many people question her right to be a Hawk, she knows that she isContinue reading “2021 Book #9 – The Good Hawk”