There’s an elephant in this room, and it is one that it is impossible for this book to get away from. Teenagers. Going to a magical boarding school. Complete with quirky teachers. And a weird game involving magic…
I don’t know if it’s in the writing, or the reading, but for a while there’s something [...]

I have been with the Court all my life, travelling with the King’s Progress.
About the Book
One of the main characters from Deep Secret, Fourteen year old Nick Mallory returns in this semi-sequel.
But the book opens with us meeting a new character, Roddy. A young page with the Kings Progress a neverending journey around the Isles [...]

I may as well start with some of our deep secrets because this account will not be easy to understand without them.
About the Book
Why yes, I am using the publishers synopsis, because otherwise I am going to struggle to explain this one!
All over the universe, Magids are at work to maintain the balance of magic, [...]

The woods came to the edge of the property: to the gravel of the drive, the electronic gate, and the green twisted-wire fence that kept out the boars.
I’ve heard many good good things about Guy Gavriel Kay’s writing, his ability to create wonderful characters, and a sense of place that puts you right in the [...]

Little Peggy was very careful with the eggs.
Set in an alternate version of 19th Century America, Seventh Son, follows the story of Alvin Miller Jr, a ten year old boy (and the titular Seventh Son (of a Seventh Son)). The America in which Alvin lives is one coloured by the folk magic and lore of [...]

The escalator crept along slowly, straining upward. In an old station like this, what else could you expect? But the wind swirled like a wild thing inside the concrete pipe–ruffling his hair, tugging the hood off his head, sneaking under his scarf, pressing him downward.
Synopsis
Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its [...]

It’s here!

Carl V, is once again hosting the, Once Upon a Time challenge which begins Saturday, March 21st and ends Friday, June 2oth. I missed out on this one last year having only been book blogging for a couple of months, but out of all the challenges I’ve come across in that time this is [...]

Well I’ve completed my first challenge for the year, and it comes as no surprise to me, that it was the Young Adult Book Challenge one that was the first to fall! I could have finished it earlier but I choose to only include books that were not going to count in any [...]

In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other. – Hermann Hesse, “Steppenwolf”
Vivian Gandillon relishes the change, the sweet, fierce ache that carries her from girl to wolf. At sixteen, she is beautiful and strong, and all the [...]

Welcome fellow Sunday Saloners (and everyone else who drops by!). February has been a good month so far reading wise – helped no doubt by having a week off work – with 12 books already finished so far! So it’s quite possible that the shortest month of the year is likely to be [...]