A Darkness of Dragons, S.A. Patrick

  Thank you Usborne Publishing for this book in exchange for an honest review   Synopsis: After playing a forbidden spell-song to save a village from rats, 12-year-old piper Patch Brightwater is thrown in jail. But there he meets Wren – a noble girl under a rat-shaped curse – and together they befriend Barver, a...

The Wicker King, K. Ancrum

Thank you Macmillan publishing for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review Synopsis: When August learns that his best friend, Jack, shows signs of degenerative hallucinatory disorder, he is determined to help Jack cope. Jack’s vivid and long-term visions take the form of an elaborate fantasy world layered over our own—a...

White Rabbit Red Wolf, Tom Pollock

White Rabbit Red Wolf Thank you Walker Book for this book in exchange for an honest review.   Synopsis: Peter Blankman is afraid of everything and must confront unimaginable terror when his mother is attacked. Seventeen-year-old Peter Blankman is a maths prodigy. He also suffers from severe panic attacks. Afraid of everything, he finds solace...

Butterflies in Sand Storms, Steve Bakarich

Thank you to Sid Harta Publishers for this book in exchange for an honest review.   Synopsis: A marriage with little or chance of success - where boredom, disappointment and depression lead to suicidal contentions by both. The throw of the dice not only involved becoming social outcasts or 'butterflies in sandstorms' in the isolated...

The Emerald Sea, Richelle Mead

Thank you Penguin for this book in exchange for an honest review.   Synopsis: Meet Tamsin, the Glittering Court's hard-angled emerald. Her outsized aspirations make her a fierce competitor, rising to the top of the ranks. But when the ship she boards for the New World is tragically lost at sea, she is quite literally...

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi

Synopsis: Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut Children of Blood and Bone. They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Zelie remembers when the soil of Orisha hummed with magic. When different clans ruled - Burners...

Token Huntress, Kia Carrington Russell

Token Huntress   I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review   Synopsis: The sun’s light dimmed many centuries before; now in the year of 2,341 rampant vampires now stalk their victims in a half-lit world. Humanity has been overtaken by a new society: one comprised of vampires, the supernatural...

The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater

Synopsis: There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.” It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead...

Aesop the Fox, Suniti Namjoshi

Thank you to Spinifex for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Aesop’s fables are brought to life by the timely intervention of Sprite from the future, who prods Aesop into debate about the meaning of stories: are they for fun, or do they have the chance to change the...

This Intimate War, Robyn Rowland

Thank you Spinifex for this book in exchange for an honest review Synopsis: Robyn Rowland’s powerful poems record the experiences of soldiers, nurses and doctors, women munitions workers, wives, mothers, composers, painters and poets during the Gallipolli War,1915. It began with the Battle of Çanakkale and the defeat of the British navy. The land battle...