So yesterday may have caught some UK based people out who are now thinking eeep I need something for... If a magazine subscription is not quite your ideal and you want something a bit different may I suggest a book from Wonderbly especially if you order by midnight tonight (20th December!) These books are an … Continue reading Last minute gift with feeling? try Wonderbly Books
Middle Grades takes on Thursday is a weekly feature originated by Mary at Book Craic to celebrate a love for Middle Grade Books. Each week a new Middle Grade Book is celebrated
In Dark Whispers the Brightstorms’ journey is growing hotter with the weather & secret plans. Vashti Hardy has this time chartered a thrilling journey to tropical climes with a thrilling adventure filled with secrets, lies and the edge of the world. The return to the world of the Brightstorm twins feels deeper and darker this … Continue reading Dark Whispers: A Brightstorm Adventure- Vashti Hardy
This book where Little Orphan Annie meets the Superhero universe is a book that makes me feel like a little kid again. I've always enjoyed superhero films and this is the perfect middle grade novel that draws on both that genre and Ally Carter's experience writing the YA Gallagher Girls spycraft and teenagers series. Imagine … Continue reading Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valour – Ally Carter
Orphans of the Tide is an intensely brooding and emotive Fantasy exploring both the inner and social struggle in The Last City, a post apocalyptic society of Inquisitions and Witchhunts to uncover & destroy the next Vessel of the malicious God who Drowned the World. But what if they’ve got it so very wrong? Outstanding … Continue reading Orphans of the Tide – Struan Murray
I absolutely adored Sinead’s The Star Spun Web earlier this year for its alternate reality- parallel worlds theme and the way she explored real events and places within a fictional alternative setting that made it both a safe space and yet closer to home through investment in the characters. So when Believathon popped up I … Continue reading Believathon Seasonal Read: The Eye of the North- Sinéad O’Hart
For my childhood favourite Believathon reread there was strong competition from the fantasy and Blyton ranks but Littlefae picked this from the selection and I’m so pleased she did as it was a wonderful read. I loved this book as a child, I totally credit Malorie Blackman and this book with beginning my love of … Continue reading Believathon: Reread a Childhood Favourite – Hacker by Malorie Blackman
