When I saw Kostick had a new book, I was thrilled. Having loved Epic so much I was really looking forward to reading Saga. It did not disappoint. I will not call it a sequel but more of a companion novel. It does feature people from Epic, but is told from the point of [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Saga by Conor Kostick
Posted in science fiction, ya on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Men of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong
Posted in fantasy on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So yeah! Armstrong finally published a book about the men in her Otherworld series. In a collection of short stories originally published as an online serial, she tells the story of Clayton and Jeremy from Bitten. I have always wanted to know more about Clayton and this nicely fills in all the gaps from [...]
Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
Posted in children's on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wow. This is an amazing book. I thought it was going to be similar to Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie, but it wasn’t really. Sam is 11 years old and has leukemia. He only has about a year to live and this is his book. His teacher (who teaches him and his friend Felix [...]
The Seems: The Split Second by John Hulme and Michael Wexler
Posted in adventure, children's, fantasy on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the sequel to the first book in the Seems series, A Glitch in Sleep. The fate of the World is once more in jeopardy, and it is up to Fixer Becker Drane to fix it before the World is destroyed. Quick background. The seems is a place that actually created the World [...]
Conrad’s Fate by Diana Wynne Jones
Posted in children's, fantasy on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In another Chrestomanci novel, Jones takes us to a time shortly after The Lives of Christopher Chant into World 7. Conrad is a young boy who has BAD KARMA hanging over his head. So he is sent by his Uncle to work at the house on the hill. But something odd is happening and [...]
Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson
Posted in children's on January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ibbotson brings to life another tale set in England during WWII. Tally is a girl beloved by family and friends and, when she is offered a scholarship to a boarding school, her father insists she goes. She soon finds many friends at school and loves going there, but after watching a news reel about [...]
