Patrick Ness (Walker Books) (I don’t like, generally, to write reviews about books that aren’t released for ages; it seems mean to go on about how wonderful a book is, only to then add that by the way, you won’t be able to read it for six months. Or before 27th August, in this case. But I …
supernatural teen
Scattering Like Light
S.C. Ransom(Nosy Crow) Please be aware that Scattering Like Light is the final tome of a trilogy and therefore there might be spoilers in this review! Scattering Like Light picks up where Perfectly Reflected left off. Alex and her family are on their way to Spain for a family holiday. But on Alex’s mind is …
Perfectly Reflected
S.C. Ransom(Nosy Crow) Please be aware that Perfectly Reflected is the second in a trilogy of books and that there are some spoilers in this review! To enjoy Perfectly Reflected fully, please read Small Blue Thing first (you can find my review here) Perfectly Reflected picks up a few days after the end of Small …
City of Fallen Angels
Cassandra Clare(Walker Books) Please be aware that there are some spoilers in this review!City of Fallen Angels picks up six weeks after the end of City of Glass and the Mortal War that saw the demise of Valentine. Everybody is back in New York, apart from Alec and Magnus who are on the romantic tour …
Small Blue Thing
S.C. Ransom(Nosy Crow) When seventeen year-old Alex finds an unusual looking bracelet while she tries to rescue a swan caught on wire on the banks of the Thames, she thinks nothing of wearing it. It’s so pretty, and so unusual. But soon strange things start to happen: the apparition of a young man wearing a …
Raised by Wolves
Jennifer Lynn Barnes(Quercus) Bryn was, literally, raised by wolves … well, werewolves, not the Remus and Romolus kind. After her parents were savagely murdered by a rabid werewolf when she was four, she was rescued by Callum, werewolf himself and alpha of his pack and taken to live with them. And so she has done for …
Keys to the Repository
Melissa de la Cruz(Atom Books) Enter once more the fabulous world of the Blue Bloods, the vampire elite, and sneak a peek at their deepest secrets! Below the streets of Manhattan, sheltered from prying eyes, is hidden the Repository, the “library of Alexandria” for vampires, where all recorded movement from Blue Bloods, mostly unbeknown to …
The Eternal Ones
Karen Miller(Puffin) Love really is forever in this new supernatural teen novel. Haven is sixteen and has always had visions, visions about herself as a young lady called Constance Whitman and about her lover, a handsome young man named Ethan. She knows everything about New York, despite the fact that she has never stepped foot …
Blue Bloods series
Melissa de la Cruz (Atom books) No more love triangles. No more forbidden love. No more vampires!!! That’s what I had promised myself after reading what felt like one too many teen vampire books (Marked, by PC & Kristen Cast, which was abysmal. I read the second in the series too, just in case I had …
Magic Under Glass
Jaclyn Dolamore(Bloomsbury Children’s Books) Nimira left her native Tiansher after her mother, a dancer in the Royal Court, died and travelled to make her fortune as a dancer herself. But at the beginning of the book, we find her performing as a music-hall dancer, a “trouser girl”, forced to dance for drunken audiences in a …