Gossamer Obsessions

Yeah, sequels are rarely as good as the original story. I could pretty much end my review of Little Men  (the sequel to the classic Litt...

There are three stages to reading Louisa May Alcott's Little Women . Stage One   is when you read it for the first time because your...

You've probably heard the expression, "resting on your laurels." It means to milk a singular success instead of going out and ...

Okay, so I'm going to start this review with two warnings: Warning the First: I had no interest in reading this book, no desire to p...

The Chick: Lady Lydia Reeve. A genteel lady whose family has traditionally held a high political interest in the town of Lively St. Lemest...

The Protagonist: Cassel Sharpe. The only non-magical dud in a family of curse workers, he ought to be able to live a normal life. The Rub...

The Protagonists: Lord Scott Oken and Professor-Prince Mikel Mabruke. Two princes from different nations under the mighty Egyptian Empire,...

At 5:00 am on the morning of our final day in NYC, I was woken up by the ringing of my hotel room's phone. I picked it up, blearily thin...

The Protagonist: Kestral Trajan. The daughter of Valorian's most celebrated general, she's under extreme pressure to either marry ...

(Sorry for the lateness, I've been very lazy - I now have a second  trip to New York with my mum to write about so I'd better hurry ...

For my last reread pick, I went with a book from my childhood - A Little Princess , by Frances Hodgson Burnett. While I remember enjoyin...

Thank God this book didn't suck. I mean it. My last draws from the Kinsale Deck were major duds - Seize the Fire  and Midsummer Moon...

Well lookee here! Another videogame review! Don't worry - I'll go back to reviewing books relatively soon (including Ashes to Ashe...

You didn't think I was much of a gamer, did you? Neither did I, to be honest. As a kid, I howled at my parents for a Nintendo 64 after...

The Word:   The Innkeeper's Song  was one of those hidden literary gems that I picked up by chance at a remainders bookstore and immed...

So, for the first book on my Reread Rollout, I decided to reread that life-ruiner of required school reading: The Giver . Kids either ha...