Review: ‘Dragon Teeth’ – Michael Crichton 2017
My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars. Alright, I loved this book. It took me a while to realise this, but I did. At it’s very core, Dragon’s Teeth is about getting there a...
Review: ‘Iron Cast’ – Destiny Soria 2016
My rating: 4 of 5 stars A tale of friendship, family and magic in interwar New York. Ada and Corinne are best friends, keeping secrets from the world together a...
Review: ‘The Marvels’ – Brian Selznick 2015
My rating: 5 of 5 stars A moving and magical tale that seamlessly blends illustration and text. A story about family, identity, history and myth-making. The Mar...
Review: ‘Everything I Never Told You’ – Celeste Ng 2014
3.5 stars. A layered novel about all the secret lives families lead when they can’t or won’t communicate. The story focuses on a Chinese-American fa...
Review: ‘Reading in the Dark’ – Seamus Deane 1996
My rating: 4 of 5 stars Haunting tale of a family twisted by secrets and a society in conflict with itself. Set in Ireland in the 1940s and 50s Reading in the D...
‘Passenger’ – Alexandra Bracken 2016
My rating: 2 of 5 stars Adequate. When that’s the best word you can think of to describe a novel you know you haven’t enjoyed it. Passenger had all ...