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Review: The Forever Girl, Rebecca Hamilton

Title: The Forever Girl (Goodreads) Author:   Rebecca Hamilton (@InkMuse) Rating:  Series: Forever Girl book 1 (of ?) Genre: YA Paranormal Romance Published: Immortal Ink Publishing, January 2012 Pages: 354 Paper copies: Amazon.com E-copies: Amazon.com • Amazon.co.uk Sophia lives in a small town where her Wiccan practices are disapproved of by the local church. Research into her family’s history leads […]
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Posted on March 6, 2012
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Review: How To Be A Pirate, Cressida Cowell

Title: How To Be A Pirate (Goodreads) Author:   Cressida Cowell Rating:  Series: How To Train Your Dragon Book 2 of 9 Genre: Childrens Fantasy Published: Little, Brown and Co, 2004 Pages: 211 . Paper copies: Amazon.com • Amazon.co.uk • Book Depository Not available as an e-book. Hiccup is a Viking and a member of the […]
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Posted on March 1, 2012
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Equipment: Kindle Wi-fi

I love real books – real paper, the smell of a new book and admiring the collection on my shelves. I’m one of those people who like books to be kept looking as new as possible and cringe when I find a crease down the spine. When I first met an e-reader, it was while […]
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Posted on February 28, 2012
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Review: City of Bones, Cassandra Clare

Title: City of Bones (Goodreads) Author:   Cassandra Clare Rating:  Series: The Mortal Instruments, Book 1 of 4 (5 & 6 planned) Genre: YA Paranormal/Urban Fantasy Published: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2008 Pages: 512 (paperback) Paper copies (paperback): Amazon.com • Amazon.co.uk • Book Depository E-copies: Amazon.com • Amazon.co.uk • Diesel Ebooks Clary Fray has just witnessed a […]
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Posted on February 24, 2012
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Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor

Title: Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Goodreads) Author:   Laini Taylor Rating: Series: Book 1 of 3 (planned and unnamed) Genre: YA Fantasy Published: Hachette Book Group, 2011 Pages: 418 Paper copies: Amazon.com • Amazon.co.uk • Book Depository E-copies: Amazon.com • Amazon.co.uk • Ebooks.com “Errand requiring immediate attention. Come. The note was on vellum, pierced by […]
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Posted on February 16, 2012
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Review: Snuff, Terry Pratchett

Title: Snuff (Goodreads) Author:   Terry Pratchett Rating:  Series: Discworld, No 39 Genre: YA/Adult Fantasy Published: Doubleday, 2011 Pages: 378 Paper copies (hardback): Amazon.com • Amazon.co.uk • Book Depository E-copies: Amazon.com • Amazon.co.uk • Ebooks.com It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork […]
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Posted on February 11, 2012
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Review: The Dragonbone Chair, Tad Williams

For my first review, I re-read an old favourite of mine. This review was originally guest posted on Once Upon a Time. ~~ Title: The Dragonbone Chair (Goodreads) Author:   Tad Williams Rating:  Series: Memory, Sorrow and Thorn – Book 1 of 4 Genre: YA/Adult Fantasy Published: Legend Press, 1988 Pages: 912 Paper copies: Amazon.com • Amazon.co.uk • Book Depository E-copies: Not […]
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Posted on February 7, 2012
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