The good, the bad and the bookish
Biased, candid and subjective book reviews of whatever we happen to be reading
Sunday, June 27
Earth to Hell - Kylie Chan
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In the eight years since her love, John Chen - also known as Xuan Wu, God of the Northern Heavens - was exiled from earth, Australian Regent...
Wednesday, June 23
Ann Herendeen: Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander
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Seeking both escape from her overbearing mother and the freedom society only awards to a married woman, a young authoress accepts a proposal...
Monday, June 21
The Gates of Zion - Bodie Thoene
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American Ellie Warne is still finding Palestine overwhelming - she's hoping that her work for her archaeologist uncle will lead to a pro...
Saturday, June 19
Eric Garcia: Cassandra French’s Finishing School for Boys
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From the cover- Cassandra French is a twenty-nine-year-old business affairs lawyer for a movie studio in Los Angeles. She has a creepy, plat...
Thursday, June 17
Laura Anne Gilman: Burning Bridges
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With vigilante attacks against magic users increasing exponentially the magical community has decided it’s time to start fighting back. But ...
Saturday, June 12
Elizabeth E. Wein: The Winter Prince
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King Artos’s son Medraut cannot stand being commanded and contradicted by his sickly younger half-brother. He may be a bastard born of inces...
Thursday, June 3
Jim Butcher: Summer Knight
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When the Winter Queen of the Faeries forces a wizard to clear her name by finding out who murdered the Summer Queen’s Knight, he thinks thin...
Tuesday, June 1
Julie and Romeo - Jeanne Ray
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For her entire life Julie Roseman has known that the only other florists in town are trouble - the Cacciamanis and the Rosemans have been fe...
Monday, May 31
Shaun Tan: Tales from Outer Suburbia
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From the back of the book- Shaun Tan…reveals the quiet mysteries of everyday life: homemade pets, dangerous weddings, stranded sea mammals, ...
Tuesday, May 25
Jane Lindskold: Through Wolf's Eyes
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When an elderly king’s heir dies the country’s noble families start jockeying for position all hoping the new heir will be selected from the...
Saturday, May 22
Angelica - Sharon Shinn
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Almost two hundred years ago, so legend has it, the god Jovah carried the settlers of Samaria from a world torn apart by war and technology ...
Thursday, May 20
Douglas Preston: The Codex
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When an eccentric millionaire is given only months to live he decides to go out with a bang. He takes all his possessions and has himself en...
Wednesday, May 19
Eat Cake - Jeanne Ray
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Ruth has always sought refuge in baking - something about the alchemy and fragrance brought her peace and clarity. Between the sulky teenage...
Sunday, May 16
The Master Quilter - Jennifer Chiaverini
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When Sylvia Compton wed Andrew in a quiet service on New Year's Eve, without the fanfare they'd planned, the Elm Creek Quilters feel...
Saturday, May 15
Reader and Raelynx - Sharon Shinn
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In the face of growing persecution of mystics, dissent from his Marlords, and grumbles of possible revolt (if not outright civil war), King ...
Tuesday, May 11
JJ Lumsden: The Hidden Whisper
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A parapsychologist visiting a small town for his grandfather’s funeral is asked to investigate a series of unexplained events at a neighbour...
Monday, May 10
The Alleluia Files - Sharon Shinn
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Acting Archangel Alleluia and her companion Caleb discovered the truth about their god, carefully documented and hidden - Jovah is the space...
Saturday, May 8
Footprints of the Devil - Olive Etchells
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Despite their estrangement, and the fact that he’s on the other side of the planet, when pro surfer Dave Tregenza gets a bad feeling about h...
Friday, May 7
The Perfect Stranger - Anne Gracie
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Despite the protests of her friends and family, Faith Meridew followed her heart, and left everything she knew for love. But the man she lov...
Thursday, May 6
As Darkness Falls - Bronwyn Parry
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Isabelle O'Connor is still on leave from the New South Wales police force, following the aftermath of a child abduction in her small cou...
Wednesday, May 5
Unlocking Mysteries with Solomon’s Key
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Subtitled A Companion Guide To “The Lost Symbol” (Dan Brown’s New Novel), this mag-book claims to help readers ‘understand the secrets of a...
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Tuesday, May 4
My Life in Orange - Tim Guest
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Tim Guest's mother left him when he was four, flying to India and becoming a disciple of controversial mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. No...
Monday, May 3
Laura Anne Gilman: Bring It On
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After a seemingly routine job went pear-shaped and resulted in the death of a long time friend all this witch wants is life to return to nor...
Sunday, May 2
The Quilter's Legacy - Jennifer Chiaverini
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Sylvia Compton is looking forward to marrying Andrew, the beau from her past who unexpectedly reappeared in her present, long past the time ...
Saturday, May 1
Murder at the B-School - Jeffrey Cruikshank
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Wim Vermeer has slowly come to the realisation that he'll never achieve academic greatness, or even tenure. An assistant professor of fi...
Friday, April 30
Welcome to Temptation - Jennifer Crusie
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Sophie Dempsey wants a quiet life - between her con artist father and younger siblings in need of a substitute mother, her childhood ended f...
Thursday, April 29
Dark Moon Defender - Sharon Shinn
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King's Rider Justin has been sent to investigate events at Coralinda Gesseltess's convent, where the increasingly fanatical Daughter...
Wednesday, April 28
The Crystal Singer - Anne McCaffrey
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When Killashandra Ree fails her music exam she's initially shattered - being a singer is the only thing that's occupied her life. Bu...
Tuesday, April 27
Susan Krinard: Dark of the Moon
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When a junior female reporter stumbles onto the story of a lifetime (a cult of blood-drinkers is stalking the poor of the city) she finds he...
Monday, April 26
Gone-Away Lake - Elizabeth Enright
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Every year Portia and her space-mad younger brother Foster spend the summer with their aunt, uncle and cousin in Creston - Julian's a ye...
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