Wednesday 25 January 2017

Reviews By Genre


Here you can find all of my book reviews, loosely grouped genre. Obviously, there is a little bit of personal discretion in how I have categorised these; sometimes there is a very thin line between YA and Adult, or Fantasy and High Fantasy, or a book might fit under several headings. 

I have done my best to group these intuitively. 

If you are looking for reviews ordered by title, click here.



Young Adult

Contemporary
Am I Normal Yet? (The Spinster Club #1), Holly Bourne
Castaways, The, Jessika Fleck
Female of the Species, The, Mindy McGinnis 
Final Draft, Riley Redgate
Genuine Fraud, E. Lockheart
Girlhood, Cat Clarke
Girls Can't Hit, Tom Easton
Girl Off The Grid, Jillian Dodd
Mountain, Ursula Pflug
More of Me, Kathryn Evans
Noteworthy, Riley Redgate
Nothing, Annie Barrows
One Of Us Is Lying, Karen McManus
Orchid Caper, The, Connie Dowell
Radio Silence, Alice Oseman
S.T.A.G.S, M. Bennett
Solitaire, Alice Oseman
Sucktown, Alaska, Craig Dirkes
Valley Girls, Sarah Nicole Lemon


Fantasy
Ariadnis, Josh Martin
Beasts Made of Night, Tochi Onyebuchi
Boy With The Porcelain Blade, The, Den Patrick
Carve the Mark, Veronica Roth
Den of Shadows, Christopher Byford
Descendants, Rae Else
Everless (#1), Sara Holland
Fireblood (Frostblood Saga #2), Elly Blake
Fire Queen, The (The Hundredth Queen #2),  Emily R. King
Frostblood (Frostblood Saga #1), Elly Blake
Hundredth Queen, The, Emily King
Mask of Shadows, Linsey Miller
Tethered Mage, The (Swords and Fire #1), Melissa Caruso
Now I Rise, Kiersten White
One Dark Throne (Three Dark Crowns #2), Kendare Blake
Quests of the Kings, Robert Evert
Rebel of the Sands, Alwyn Hamilton
Red Queen, Victoria Aveyard
Scythe, Neal Shusterman
Sky In The Deep, Adrienne Young
Smoke Thieves, The, Sally Green
Thief, The (The Queen's Thief #1), Megan Whalen Turner
Three Dark Thrones (Three Dark Thrones #1), Kendare Blake

The Last Namsara (Iskari #1), Kristen Ciccarelli

Historical
Blood and Sand, C. V. Wyk
Girl With The Red Balloon, The, (The Balloonmakers #1), Katherine Locke

Magical Realism
All the Crooked Saints, Maggie Stiefvater
Caraval, Stephanie Garber
Crown's Game, The (The Crown's Game #1), Evelyn Skye
Daughter of the Burning City, Amanda Foody
Fallen Flame, J Miller
Hush, The, Skye Melki-Wegner
House of Mountfathom, The, Nigel McDowell
Trial By Fire, Lore Graham
Uncrossing, The, Melissa Eastlake
Witchtown, Cory Putnam Oakes

Mythology
Epic Crush of Genie Lo, The, F. Lee
Hammer of Thor, The (Magnus Chase & the Gods of Asgard #2), Rick Riordan
Hidden Oracle, The (Trials of Apollo #1), Rick Riordan
Sword of Summer, The (Magnus Chase & The Gods of Asgard #1), Rick Riordan

Novellas
A Tale of Two Ladies, Glenn Song
Brother's Ruin, Emma Newman

Retellings
Bull, David Elliott
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles #1), Marissa Meyer
Flame In The Mist, Renee Ahdieh
Heartless, Marissa Meyer
To Kill A Kingdom, Alexandra Christo

Romance
Definitions of Indefinable Things, Whitney Taylor
Elite, The (The Selection #2), Kiera Cass
Love and Vandalism, Laurie Crompton
Under Rose-Tainted Skies, Louise Gornall
When Dimple Met Rishi, Sandhya Menon
Winner's Curse, The, Marie Rutkoski

Romance LGBT
Antisocial, Heidi Cullinan
Autoboyography, Christina Lauren
In Ageless Sleep, Arden Ellis

Sci-Fi
Diabolic, The (The Diabolic #1), S. Kincaid
Defy the Stars, Claudia Gray
Digging in the Stars, Katherine Blakeney
Evaporation of Sofi Snow, The, Mary Weber
Invictus, Ryan Graudin
Mercury in Retrograde, Merethe Walther
My Side of the Diamond, Sally Gardner
Nyxia (The Nyxia Triad #1), Scott Reintgen
Satellite, Nick Lake
Unknown Horizons, C J Birch
Warcross (Warcross #1), Marie Lu





Adult

Contemporary
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
Release, Patrick Ness
Shock of the Fall, The, Nathan Filer
Ten Birthdays, Kerry Wilkinson

Fantasy
Godsgrave (The Nevernight Chronicles #2), Jay Kristoff
Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle #1), Jay Kristoff
Red Rising, Pierce Brown

Grimdark
Court of Broken Knives, The (Empires of Dust #1), Anna Smith Spark

High Fantasy
Assassin's Fate (Ftiz and the Fool #3), Robin Hobb

Magical Realism
Management Style of the Supreme Beings, The,  Tom Holt

Mythology

Novellas

Non-Fiction
Mandelbrot the Magnificient, Liz Ziemska
No Time To Spare, Ursula K. Le Guin
Princess Saves Herself In This One, The, Amanda Lovelace

Romance

Romance LGBT
Eyes Like Those, Melissa Brayden
Strawberry Summer, Melissa Brayden

Sci-Fi



Children


State of Grace, The, Rachael Lucas
White Hare, The, Michael Fishwick



Misc. 
Stuff that doesn't really fit anywhere else!


Big Mushy Happy Lump, Sarah Andersen
Elf Warfare, Chris Pramas
Joyride #1, Jackson Lanzing
Romeo And/Or Juliet, Ryan North
Welcome Back #1, Christopher Sebela

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