Medium – Book About the Book – This story tells the tale of two different women, who are often overlooked in Greek history/myth. The first is Jocasta, the wife and (eek) mother of Oedipus, whose story is told in the third person. The second is Ismene, her daughter /grand-daughter, whose story is told in theContinue reading “2021 Book #45 – The Children of Jocasta”
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2021 Book #43 – A Quiet Life in the Country
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Lady Hardcastle and her maid and best friend, Flo Armstrong, decide to move to the country in order to get some peace and quiet. They move to a beautiful, friendly village near one of Lady Hardcastle’s friends and enjoy about a week of calm. The calm is broken,Continue reading “2021 Book #43 – A Quiet Life in the Country”
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 #39 – The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
Medium – Book About the Book – Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, making her own way in future Britain, a dystopian landscape full of dangerous creatures, eugenics and cannibalistic Zombie men. She is a bank robber who shoots first and asks questions later, stealing and killing as she goes through Britain. On one of herContinue reading “2021 Book #39 – The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne”
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 #16 – The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow
Medium – Book About the Book – Audrey and Ivy are two students at the prestigious Illumen Hall on the South Coast of England. The school is famous and well-regarded, with a strange obsession with magpies. Ivy is a straight-A student who lives in a council flat in London outside of term-time, Audrey is anContinue reading “2021 Book #16 – The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow”
2021 Book #15 – Nimona
Medium – Book (Graphic Novel) About the Book – Nimona is a shape-shifter, who can shift into any real creature (this includes dragons!) or human. She has a real knack for villainy, and is not afraid to get her hands/claws/teeth dirty in becoming a villain. She becomes the sidekick of Lord Ballister Blackheart – aContinue reading “2021 Book #15 – Nimona”
2021 Book #14 – The Castle of Tangled Magic
Medium – Book About the Book – Olia is the descendent of Russian royalty, though now an ordinary person, and she lives in the beautiful Castle Mila, which has a huge number of domes. She lives with her parents (her mother is a character from a previous book by Sophie Anderson), her newborn sister RosaContinue reading “2021 Book #14 – The Castle of Tangled Magic”
2021 Book #13 – Splinters of Scarlet
Medium – Book About the Book – Marit Olsen is a young orphan living in Denmark hundreds of years ago. She is a magic-user in a land where magic comes with a terrible cost – if the person uses magic too often, they will be overtaken by the Firn, a deadly, ice-like build up whichContinue reading “2021 Book #13 – Splinters of Scarlet”
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