The title of this post is misleading. I’m not a big fan of watching sporting events in general – I’d much rather be participating than watching – but when you’re husband is one of those slightly crazy people who likes to push himself to his limits, you don’t really get given an …
November is National Novel Writing Month (NanoWriMo), where writers from all over the world attempt to write a novel (or part of a novel) in a month. The goal is to hit 50,000 words by writing 1,677 words per day. I don’t tend to write evenly, so my words tend …
I am going to begin this review by saying that I don’t read a lot of LGBT novels, but in light of the current ‘postal survey’ on marriage equality initiated by the Australian Government, I decided I should support some of our Aussie LGBT authors.
Like Nevernight, Godsgrave begins by switching back and forth between two different events in Mia’s timeline. It was used to great affect in the first book, but I’m not sure it has the same impact here. The characters I fell in love with – Mia, Ashlinn, and Mercurio – were all back, along with a whole heap of new characters in the form of the Gladiatii.
Nevernight wasn’t at all what I was expecting. The narrator’s viewpoint was a little disorienting for me at first, but by the end I barely noticed it. The comparison between two different scenario’s Jay Kristoff used in the first chapter intrigued and sucked me into Mia’s story. I was invested in her as a main character and wanted her to succeed. I loved that while she was a killer, she had a heart.
Title: The Lake House by Kate Morton Publisher: Allen & Unwin Publication Date: October 2016 Genre: Historical Fiction / Mystery Living on her family’s idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are …
