Something from Tiffany’s by Melissa Hill Hodder & Stroughton (May 2011) Hardback, 404 pages Contemporary Romance Warning: contains spoilers for the book’s ending It has been a while since I have read a book that would have been classed as “chick-lit”. This is due to the fact that they are all pretty much the same, but I picked up this book since it fit nicely in with the “SmeXmas” event held in December. Unfortunately I didn’t finish it in time, but this is not a reflection on the quality of the novel as…
PANDEMONIUM (Delirium #2) by Lauren Oliver PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton RELEASE DATE: March 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 375 pages GENRE: Science Fiction, Dystopian, Young Adult Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you when you have it. And when you don’t. I’m pushing aside the memory of my nightmare, pushing aside thoughts of Alex, pushing aside thoughts of Hana and my old school, push, push, push, like Raven taught me to do. The old life is dead. But the old Lena is dead too. I buried her. I left…
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor Hodder (Sept 2011) | Hardback, 420 pages Paranormal Romance | Urban Fantasy CAROLYN: There has been quite a lot of buzz about Daughter of Smoke and Bone so I’ve really been looking forward to reading this one. The Otherworld Taylor has created, named Elsewhere, is mysterious and intriguing and the characters are imaginative and fun. The angels are frightening but beautiful and the Chimaera strange and complex, and Karou is a fabulous heroine. As I read through each chapter, Daughter of Smoke and Bone…
Title: Delirium (Delirium #1) Author: Lauren Oliver Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (UK) | Harper Teen (US) Publication Date: February 2011 ARC: 441 Pages Genre: Science Fiction Young Adult Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Laura RATING: 7/10 – Very good, would definitely recommend GOODREADS SUMMARY: Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn’t understand that one love -the deliria- blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the governments demands that…
Title: Sisters Red Author: Jackson Pearce Publisher: Hodder Publication Date: June 2010 ARC: 324 pages Genre: Fantasy Young Adult RATING: 8/10 SUMMARY: The story of Scarlett and Rosie March, two highly-skilled sisters who have been hunting Fenris (werewolves), who prey on teen girls, since Scarlett lost her eye years ago while defending Rosie in an attack. Scarlett lives to destroy the Fenris, and she and Rosie lure them in with red cloaks (a colour the wolves can’t resist), though Rosie hunts more out of debt to her sister than drive….
Title: Before I Fall Author: Lauren Oliver Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (UK) | HarperCollins (US) PublicationDate: 4 Mar 2010 Paperback: 352 pages Genre: Contemporary fiction Young Adult Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Laura RATING: 7/10 BACK COVER SUMMARY: They say that when you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that’s not how it happened for me
Sam Kingston is dead. Except she isn’t.
On a rainy February night, eighteen-year-old Sam is killed in a horrific car crash. But then the impossible happens: she wakes up in her own…
Marley & Me by John Grogan Hodder (July 2007) | Paperback, 304 pages | Non-Fiction John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they bought home Marley, a wiggly yellow fur ball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley quickly grew into a barrelling, ninety-seven pound steamroller of a Labrador retriever, a dog like no other. He crashed through screen doors, gouged through drywall, flung drool on…
