“When summer falls, the Lord of Winter will arise…” In the seaside village of Watchcombe, young Kate is determined to make the most of her last week of summer holiday. But when she discovers a mysterious painting entitled ‘The Lord of Winter’ in a charity shop, it leads her on an adventure she never… Continue reading Book Eighteen of 2013: DOCTOR WHO: SUMMER FALLS by James Goss
VELOCITY is the last installment to the GRAVITY SERIES by Abigail Boyd, an independent author. I fell in love with her first book, GRAVITY, and had to jump into the others as soon as possible. If you read my reviews for UNCERTAINTY and LUMINOSITY, then you would know that I devoured them both in… Continue reading Book Seventeen of 2013: VELOCITY by Abigail Boyd
There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face before Annah left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the Horde as they swarmed the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of… Continue reading Book Sixteen of 2013: THE DARK AND HOLLOW PLACES by Carrie Ryan
Love or life. Henry or their child. The end of her family or the end of the world. Kate must choose. During nine months of captivity, Kate Winters has survived a jealous goddess, a vengeful Titan and a pregnancy she never asked for. Now the Queen of the Gods wants her unborn child, and… Continue reading Book Fifteen of 2013: THE GODDESS INHERITANCE by Aimee Carter
Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective… Continue reading Book Fourteen of 2013: A GAME OF THRONES by George R R Martin
We first see this book in the Doctor Who episode "Angels Take Manhatten". It is the book that the Doctor reads and the book that shows the last moments of the Pond companions. Though the actual book doesn't feature that episode, it is a great read. This is the story of the River Song when… Continue reading Book Thirteen of 2013: THE ANGEL’S KISS by Justin Richards
Reese can’t remember anything from the time between the accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. She only knows one thing: She’s different now. Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people die. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds… Continue reading Book Twelve of 2013: ADAPTATION by Malinda Lo
In Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love, Andrew Shaffer explored the romantic failures of some of the great minds in history. Now, in Literary Rogues, he turns his unflinching eye and wit to explore our love-hate relationship with literature's most contrarian, drunken, vulgar, and just plain rude bad boys (and girls) in this very… Continue reading Book Ten of 2013: LITERARY ROGUES by Andrew Shaffer
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Together this dynamic pair… Continue reading Book Nine of 2013: HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up… Continue reading Book Eight of 2013: THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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