Tag Archive | speculative fiction
If I Stay
If I Stay by Gayle Forman My rating: 5 of 5 stars Im finding it hard to believe that I am giving this book five stars. Sometimes I just get a prejudice in my head, and I can’t shake it. Maybe it was because I wasn’t that fussed over Just One Day. Perhaps it was […]
The Door That Led to Where
The Door That Led to Where by Sally Gardner My rating: 4 of 5 stars My first Sally Gardner, and not a disappointment. A clever time-slip novel, set in the 21st and 19th centuries, the main character of AJ is instantly recognisable – a lost and aimless youth who is given a break when he […]
The Whisperer
The Whisperer by Fiona McIntosh My rating: 4 of 5 stars What if you could hear everyone else’s thoughts? All the time? And what if one of the voices you could hear was that of the Crown Prince? And What if that Crown Prince was under threat from his ambitious and ruthless uncle?Well then. You’d […]
Of Poseidon
Of Poseidon by Anna Banks My rating: 3 of 5 stars Of Poseidon seems that it may be just another novel in the para-normal romance genre that’s been sweeping the world. And on one level it is. Girl meets boy, they fall in love, he turns out to be something fantastic. Love blossoms. Etc. But […]
Marly’s Ghost
Marly’s Ghost by David Levithan My rating: 4 of 5 stars Using Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as a starting point, Leviathan has re-written the story for a modern age. On Valentine’s Day, Ben cannot face the day without his beloved Marly by his side. Her death has become all to hard for him to cope […]
The Jewel
The Jewel by Amy Ewing My rating: 5 of 5 stars The cover of The Jewel is off-white, with gold-embossed title text and curlicues, and a girl in a purple ball gown. It has everything I would usually run a mile from. Except that the cover also includes this tagline: “Today is my last day […]
Edsel Grizzler
Voyage to Verdada by James Roy My rating: 4 of 5 stars Edsel Grizzler’s life is pretty miserable. His parents treat him like a baby, wrap him in cotton wool, and protect him from the world. So when Edsel finds a mysterious egg-shaped object in the junkyard of his mate, Pete, Edsel throws caution to […]
The Sequin Star
The Sequin Star by Belinda Murrell My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m a fan of Belinda Murrell. I love her time-slip novels for younger readers. They always have strong female leads, interesting historical back-stories and a nice juicy mystery. And The Sequin Star doesn’t disappoint. Claire is struggling with being a tween. Her best […]
Dying To Tell Me
Dying to Tell Me by Sherryl Clark My rating: 4 of 5 stars This crossover YR/ YA novel is a well-written mystery. Moving to a new (country) town after their mother leaves the family, Sasha, her dad and brother become embroiled in a local mystery involving art, dope and deadbeats.There are some cliches in this […]
Phoenix
Arrival by Chris Morphew My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Phoenix Files is another very good spec-fic novel series from Australia, which initially threw me, as I’d had one of those “this sort of cover equals this particular country” moments. And if I’d really thought about it properly, which, obviously, I didn’t, I would […]
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