I don’t normally post such large cover images with my reviews, but how could I not give this cover by James Jean the attention it deserves? But of course it’s what’s inside that counts does the story match that fantastic cover?
I’ve had a mixed experience with Annette Curtis Klause so far, I was left cold [...]

See my reviews of books 1 and 2.
Just a warning, as this is the final book in the trilogy, there will inevitably be some spoilers, just so you know.
After the events of the previous book, the five Midnighters are licking their wounds, their bonds of friendship stretched – if not quite to breaking point – [...]

About the Book
Emma Morley and Dexter Meyhew, meet properly for the first time on the 15th July 1988, the night of their graduation from University.
We meet them again, on the same day each year for the next twenty years.
Each chapter of the book, covers Emma and Dexter’s lives on that day, following their lives, [...]

A Weekly Geeks Style Review
About the Books
Midnight Alley
Claire Danvers has pledged herself to Amelie, the most powerful vampire in town. The protection her contract secures does little to reassure her friends. All of a sudden, people are turning up dead, a stalker resurfaces from Claire’s past, and an ancient bloodsucker extends a chilling invitation for [...]

At last, everything was sorted out.
About the Book
As we found out in the first book of the series, The Secret Hour, midnight in the small town of Bixby, Oklahoma, brings about something very different to what most of the towns residents know about. Midnight, is when the blue hour happens, the world freezes, and the [...]

Peter Mcallister kicked open the door and tottered down the basement steps, looking like a box with no legs.
I’ve had the good fortune of watching this trilogy develop over the years on James’ blog. During the process of writing the books James often posted about the experience and various snippets along the way, so it [...]

The halls of Bixby High School were always hideously bright on the first day of school.
This was my on-plane read for my recent little weekend jaunt to Spain, and it turned out to be a perfect, fun, little read.
The only other book I’ve read by Scott Westerfeld before this was, Parasite Positive/Peeps, and I’m happy [...]

Rule #3: Don’t stare at invisible faeries.
Rule #2: Don’t speak to invisible faeries.
Rule #1: Don’t ever attract their attention.
I listened to the audiobook version of this story, narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan, and I have to say I was very impressed with the production, Bresnahan doesn’t so much as narrate or read the story, as [...]

Welcome to another author interview here at Bart’s Bookshelf, and this time our guest brings pirates!
Danielle Thorne, freelanced for online and print magazines from 1998 through 2001, adding reviewing and editing to her resume. 2009 will see the release of two novels: THE PRIVATEER, a 1729 historical about British privateering in the Caribbean, and TURTLE [...]

Publishers need to ‘re-masculate’ books if they want to get more men reading.
Interesting article in todays Guardian about the imbalance between male and female literary habits and what can be done about it.
It turns out in the important “Page Turners” bracket (the avid reader) 48% of the women surveyed fell into this category, while only [...]