Published by Del Rey Synopsis: A girl.A secret.A life-changing journey.Born covered in the feathers of a bird, and kept hidden in a crumbling house full of secrets, Marea has always known she was different, but never known why. And so to find answers, she goes in search of the father she has never met.The hunt … Continue reading Feathertide by Beth Cartwright
Published by Flame Tree Press Synopsis: A multi-national research team, led by a medical genomics expert suffering from MS, study an ancient pandoravirus at a remote Siberian research facility. Called "Molli" by the research team, the organic substance reveals some unique but troublesome characteristics, qualities that, in the wrong hands, could lead to human extinction. … Continue reading The Apocalypse Strain by Jason Parent
Published by Shadow City - A Next Chapter Imprint It's the year 2446, and the first three Horsemen of Revelation's Apocalypse have ridden.Pestilence, War and Famine have changed the world into a dictatorship ruled with an iron fist. Commoners have few rights, and liberty is a distant memory.Before the final Horseman is released, the Archangel … Continue reading Misericorde by Cynthia A. Morgan (Mercy Series book #1)
Synopsis:An emotionally charged and captivating novel about the complexities of female friendship and motherhood.Lizzie Thomson has landed her first job as a music teacher, and after a whirlwind romance with Markus, the newlywed couple move into a beautiful new home in the outskirts of Edinburgh. Lizzie quickly befriends their neighbour Morag, an elderly, resourceful yet … Continue reading The Memories We Bury by H.A. Leuschel
I dedicated last week to only reading print books rather than digital - time to get back to my roots!Between you and me, I started reading books on my phone a year or so ago and though that lets me power read like some kind of machine, it does mean that I don't have time … Continue reading A Week In Print
Synopsis: Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran … Continue reading The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
Published by HarperVoyager Synopsis: In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown.On Abeth the vastness of the ice holds no room for individuals. Survival together is barely possible. No one survives alone.To resist the cold, to endure the months of night when even the air … Continue reading The Girl and the Stars by Mark Lawrence (Book of the Ice #1)
It's now family tradition that we have a Sunday afternoon quiz - I love quizzes so I thought that some of you might like to get in on this! Just email me via the contact tab or leave a comment if you'd like me to share the answers with you. Fun with flags: which flag … Continue reading The Most Sublime Quiz Night!
We all have a list of books we’ve told ourselves we’ll read ‘one day’, this is the most ambitious of TBRs filled with books that need our full and undivided attention. Perhaps they’re the classics that you’ve been told over and over that you need to read or just really long and you haven’t had … Continue reading Time, Space and Books I Will Never Read
Published by Blood Bound Books Synopsis: Imagine if everyone in America wanted the same thing.Your plumber, the mail carrier, the folks next door, the girl at the coffee shop, cops, those who worship in churches, synagogues, and mosques, your favorite band. Your best friend.They all want the same exact thing. They want to kill you.Daniel … Continue reading Review: Canni by Daniel O'Connor
Synopsis: An isolated Swedish town. A deaf reporter terrified of nature. A dense spruce forest overdue for harvest. A pair of eyeless hunters found murdered in the woods.It’s week one of the Swedish elk hunt and the sound of gunfire is everywhere. When Tuva Moodyson investigates the story that could make her career she stumbles … Continue reading Dark Pines by Will Dean (Tuva Moodyson Mystery #1)
I am a sucker for internet nonsense - the weird, totally harmless hobbies that people film and share online only to find that there are other people out there who love what they do. This has been a Most Sublime household pastime for ages now, we watch one YouTube video a night to help unwind … Continue reading The Most Sublime Internet Nonsense
