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Audiobook Review: Medicus by Ruth Downie

Posted on June 18, 2013 Leave a Comment

Medicus by Ruth Downie This story follows military medicus (doctor) Gaius Petreius Ruso who is a Roman man living in Brittania (England). He’s escaped to the Brittania to heal from a disaster of a marriage that ended in divorce and the death of his father that left the family with many undue debts to pay. […]

Audio Book Review: City of Lies by Lian Tanner

Posted on June 5, 2013 1 Comment

City of Lies by Lian Tanner Okay, let’s see if I can pull this review off without making it another gush-fest on my love for Claudia Black. As usual, her narration is fantastic, but for this second book of The Keepers Trilogy, I want to focus on the story because that’s what I think really […]

Book Review: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

Posted on May 27, 2013 Leave a Comment

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey Having really enjoyed Rick Yancey’s The Monstrumologist, I became interested in checking out the author’s other works and decided to pick up his new young adult book The 5th Wave. The book tells the story of an alien invasion, happening over a period of time in a series of planned […]

Book Review: The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson

Posted on May 24, 2013 2 Comments

The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson Huge fan of Brandon Sanderson here, which is why I was all over this book even though I knew it would take place outside of his Cosmere universe and be a little different from his usual epics. I admit I was mostly curious as to what reading a young adult […]

Book Review: Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis

Posted on May 20, 2013 Leave a Comment

Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis This book could have been a story arc in a comic book, and I mean that in a good way. In fact, I’m thinking that could be why I liked this book so much. You have British warlocks versus Nazi Germany’s engineered super soldiers in an alternate history of World War […]

Book Review: Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch

Posted on May 17, 2013 12 Comments

Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch Wow, never have I snapped up and read all the currently available books in a series so quickly. With my enthusiasm waning for Harry Dresden in light of the new direction the Dresden Files series has taken in the last few books, someone else has recently dethroned him as […]

Film Review: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Posted on May 13, 2013 Leave a Comment

What is a movie review doing in a book blog, you might ask? Well you see, I would reply conspiratorially, I cheated. Persepolis – the graphic novel – was the topic of discussion in our recent Ladies Night Comic Club meeting, but procrastination various distractions and priorities got in the way of me reading it. […]

Comic Review: Private Eye by Brian K. Vaughan

Posted on May 1, 2013 Leave a Comment

It’s the year 2076. After all the information we’ve ever uploaded online is suddenly released for everyone to see, privacy has become a sacred right valued by everyone. Well, almost everyone. Where there are secrets, there will always be paparazzi. In this case, the paparazzi become private detectives, hunting the secrets behind the secret identities […]

Book Review: Overkill by Robert Buettner

Posted on April 20, 2013 Leave a Comment

Overkill by Robert Buettner Genre: Military Science Fiction Series: Book 1 of Orphan’s Legacy Publisher: Baen Author Information: Website Tiara’s Rating: 4 of 5 Stars Narrator: MacLeod Andrews | Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins | Audiobook Publisher: Audible Studios | Whispersync Ready: Yes I originally bought the book as an impulse buy from Audible because they kept taunting me […]

Book Review: Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake

Posted on January 19, 2013 Leave a Comment

Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake Genre: Young Adult, Horror, Supernatural Series: Book 2 of Anna Author Information: Twitter | Website Tiara’s Rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve just finished reading this book. It’s 3:30 in the morning, and my Nexus 7 is on its last leg because I was too enthralled to plug it […]