From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction. Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you eat, let it watch you while … Continue reading People From My Neighbourhood | Hiromi Kawakami #JPNshortstories
I do love it when an unexpected gem falls into your lap.Regency romance/supernatural YA is not my usual genre, but I can tell you now, that this review of Alison Goodman's first installment in her Lady Helen trilogy will be a rave one with some outright gushing thrown in for good measure!I could barely put … Continue reading Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman
I've enjoyed highlighting and remembering all the Australian classics I've read over the years in preparation for November's AusReading Month.And Flashback Friday has been a great motivator to get me to do one a week at least - thanks Lisa.This weeks FF needs no introduction...well not in Australia anyway.Not only is Picnic At Hanging Rock … Continue reading Picnic At Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
As most of you know by now, vampire/werewolf literature is not really my thing. But every now and again I feel obligated to give one a go. I tried Twilight three years ago when B14 was reading it. I read 6 or 7 chapters. I could see the appeal during the set-up stage, but by the … Continue reading The Highgate Vampire | Asa Bailey
It feels like a while since I gave a completely positive review for a YA book, but here it is! The Hunt is the first book in a new series by Andrew Fukuda. It's strong, gripping and exciting from the word go. The world as we know it is populated by the dominant vampire people. … Continue reading The Hunt | Andrew Fukuda
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer came to me with a LOT of hype attached to it and a LOT of high expectations. My rep at work was talking it up. Her publishing house was putting a lot of time and effort into getting the message out there. I was assured it was the next big … Continue reading The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer | Michelle Hodkin
As you all know vampire-lit is not my usual thing. All the ones I've tried to read until now just leave me cold. They're either too tedious and ernest or too teenage-angsty. So I started reading Dead Until Dark, the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series reluctantly. Sookie lives in a world where vampires … Continue reading Dead Until Dark | Charlaine Harris
I reluctantly picked up Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick. It's black and red cover with a looming dracula-like figure hiding a knife behind it's back, did not really look like my kind of book. But I wanted to read something by Marcus Sedgwick as I had heard good things about him. Midwinterblood turned out to be a "don't … Continue reading Midwinterblood | Marcus Sedgwick
As you know by know paranormal lit is not really my thing, but I received a reading copy of Forever and felt obliged to try it. I haven't read the first 2 books in the trilogy, but the story was pretty easy to pick up. Wolves and teen angst is the short version! It was … Continue reading Forever | Maggie Stiefvater
Stephen King's The Stand meets William Golding's Lord of the Flies in Gone, book one in a new series for teens by Michael Grant. What would happen if everyone over 15 suddenly disappeared from your world? Could you survive on your own? Who would step up to lead? What if something bad happened? Who would … Continue reading Gone | Michael Grant
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