Reviewsday: Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce
Tempests and Slaughter was the Tamora Pierce book I wasn’t sure I needed but ended up really loving. I adore Tamora Pierce. I’ve been reading her since the age of ten, and her books dominated my early teens. Among my favourites was her Immortals sequence, in which we first met the powerful mage, Numair. Tempests […]
QBD Reviews: The Secrets At Ocean’s Edge by Kali Napier
Meet our February Book of the Month! The Secrets At Ocean’s Edge has been likened to Australian classics like M.L. Stedman’s award-winning novel The Light Between Oceans, and Rosalie Ham’s The Dressmaker. 1932. Ernie and Lily Hass, and their daughter, Girlie, have lost almost everything in the Depression; all they have keeping their small family […]
Reviewsday: Bonfire by Krysten Ritter
Explosive from the first kindling down to the last ember. Krysten Ritter has a detailed imagination and, in her debut novel, she weaves a mysterious web. Protagonist Abby Williams returns to her small county hometown of Barrens to investigate a case of corporate pollution in the reservoir. This case burns a little too bright and […]
Spotlight on QBD Broadmeadows
  Meet our Broadmeadows team as they go under our QBD Spotlight for the first time!   Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll: This story began with a well-to-do, ambitious, self absorbed character that I absolutely could not relate to. I was into the first chapter and almost put the book down… But there was […]
