Reviewsday: The Red Queen
Mare Barrow always thought her world was black and white. If you had Silver blood, you were part of the elite nobility, boasting special powers and the status that came with them. If you had Red blood, you were boring, ordinary – only good for completing the dirty work. But Mare is about to find […]
Reviewsday: Emergence by John Birmingham
When Dave Hooper boarded the chopper out to the Longreach rig, he was feeling pretty sorry for himself. Hungover, he was feeling the pressure from his bosses and the squeeze from his soon-to-be ex-wife. Still, he was good at his job, and his men had just finished drilling the deepest hole in history. Celebrations were […]
Reviewsday: The Luminaries
One dark and stormy night Walter Moody arrives in Hortika, a Gold Rush town on New Zealand’s wild rough west coast. Here he stumbles across a secret council, called to discuss a series of strange coincidences, to strange in fact to be mere coincidence. The Luminaries had a thoroughly unique structure with the longest Part […]
Reviewsday: Thirteen Reasons Why
” A lot of you cared, just not enough.” I’m going to be honest. Thirteen Reasons Why is a hard book to read – but it’s worth it. Any book that deals with an issue as sensitive as teenage suicide is going to be emotional and this one really hits hard. The main message that […]
