The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey My rating: 5 of 5 stars I don’t usually enjoy a story that makes me stop and wonder what I missed, but this one made me regularly catch myself and love it! The catches, once I noticed them, didn’t slow me down, didn’t make me think there was a… Continue reading Review: The 5th Wave
A Letter From Italy by Pamela Hart (Goodreads Author) Hart has such a way with words! It’s not so much that she makes me visualize something I’ve never seen (which she does brilliantly), it’s more like I’m blind and she’s reminding me what vision used to be like. Picture this, for example: you’re in… Continue reading Review: A Letter From Italy
After You by Jojo Moyes My rating: 5 of 5 stars The pace in After You is deceptive: it feels like it gets off to a slow start, but it’s actually just a perfect reflection of Louisa’s state of mind. Lou is at a crossroads. She struggles to move on from the events of Me… Continue reading Review: After You
Demon Road by Derek Landy My rating: 3 of 5 stars Demon Road is a book with a great concept and lots of action, but there were things in its execution that slowed me down. Sometimes a point was rammed home (Amber really likes her eyes!) and there were the odd chapter recaps as though… Continue reading Review: Demon Road
The Boy Under the Table is a hard book to describe without giving anything away. Trope uses an unusual style – filled with early backstory, heavy on past tense, and liberal with dispassionate descriptions – that accentuates the horror of what’s actually happening. It’s almost as though the relative quiet of her style represents the… Continue reading Review: The Boy Under the Table
I was surprised to learn (courtesy of my Goodreads account) that I read 76 books last year! That’s a lot of procrastinating (and explains why my own novel is still not finished). It also made picking my Top 5 so hard I had to expand it to a Top 10. So here, in the order… Continue reading Top Five Books of 2016
Sand by Hugh Howey My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you loved Wool then I reckon you’ll love Sand just as much. Howey’s mastery of exquisite passive voice, perfectly balanced sentence lengths, and gorgeous prose are as evident in Sand as anything else he’s written. ‘The old dive master chewed on the grit in… Continue reading Review: Sand
