“The Ten Thousand Doors of January” by Alex E. Harrow
Thanks to Little, Brown Book Group UK and NetGalley for the Advance Review Copy in exchange for an honest review.
So, I actually read this book a number of months ago and I’ve started writing a review for it at various points since but I could never really get my head in the right place to talk about it properly. There is something so incredibly difficult about writing a review for a book that you absolutely love and this was one of those books for me.
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“Come Again” by Robert Webb
Thanks to Canongate and NetGalley for the Advance Review Copy in exchange for an honest review.
I feel like I’ve been completely behind on my reviews lately (this is not so much a feeling as a fact) and being a high school teacher who has had to completely reinvent her way of working has made things more than a little busy recently. I’m going to try and catch up a little with my reviews over the next few weeks, I think I’m sitting at about a 67% ratio on NetGalley at the moment and I want to try and get that up to maybe about 70% over the next week because there are quite a lot of books I have read but haven’t had a chance to review. To try and speed things up a little bit I am going to be dictating my reviews using a voice recognition programme so if my reviews seem a bit “chattier” then that might be the reason why. It’s also quite a fun exercise to see how Microsoft Word deals with accents, every time I say “rather” it thinks I am saying “robber” which is rather fun.
“The Court of Miracles” by Kester Grant
Thanks to Harper Collins UK and NetGalley for the Advance Review Copy in exchange for an honest review.
I’m aware that there has been quite a lot of hype about this book on Book Twitter and other social media and my interest was further piqued when I read the synopsis. You can think about this book as something between a retelling of Les Miserables mixed with a story about post-revolutionary France in an alternate reality where the revolutionaries lost, and the French monarchy is still very much in place…yup. There’s supposed to be some tie in with The Jungle Book too apparently but that passed me by completely.
“Night of the Dragon” by Julie Kagawa
Thanks to HQ and NetGalley for the Advance Review Copy in exchange for an honest review.
I’ve really enjoyed this series and was excited to read the final book in the trilogy. It’s guilty of being a bit trope-y at times but it is YA after all and it’s a hell of a lot of fun with it, so I’d say it gets a free pass.
“Tsarina” by Ellen Alpsten
Thanks to Bloomsbury and NetGalley for the Advance Review Copy in exchange for an honest review.
I really enjoy Russian fiction, as in books written by Russian authors but when I wracked my brain, I couldn’t think of a single Russian historical fiction book I have read. So, time to remedy that with this book.
“The Bass Rock” by Evie Wyld
Thanks to Random House UK and NetGalley for the Advance Review Copy in exchange for an honest review.
This book tells the story of three women whose stories are cleverly interwoven across time. The main setting is the area around North Berwick where the Bass Rock looms eternal. Sarah and Ruth’s narratives are written in the third person and Viviane’s is in the first person. This was quite an interesting approach for the author to take but it took a little bit of getting used to as a reader. There is an element of the supernatural in the story but the living are scarier than the dead in this particular tale.
“One Year of Ugly” by Caroline Mackenzie
Thanks to HarperCollins UK and NetGalley for the Advance Review Copy in exchange for an honest review.
I am usually allergic to describing any book as “sexy” but…this book is sexy. It’s also funny, charming and has a big dollop of (mostly light-hearted) family drama stirred in too.
