Top Five Children’s Authors

Top 5 children’s’ authors and book suggestions One of the perks of having a younger sister? You have an excuse to be nostalgic and go buy a bunch of books from a beloved children’s author. These of 5 children authors that I thought needed to be celebrated. Most are authors that stood out to me…

Best Book Villains (In My Opinion)

This list consists of some of my personal favourite villains. There are so many wonderfully evil villains out there that it was difficult to choose, considering that this list probably changes every couple of days. But as of right now this is the list. These are the villains that either in childhood or whatever I…

The Bloody Chamber and Other stories Review

Angela Carter stated that her intention with this collection of short stories was not “to do ‘versions’ or, as the American edition of the book said, horribly, ‘adult’ fairy tales, but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories”. However, I was unaware of this statement when I first read the book, so I…

10 book summaries in five words or less.

I had some help with this, my friend Jack did of couple of these. This is supposed to be a little bit of fun, so no one get offended 🙂 Wuthering Heights Adorable necrophilia romance Northanger Abbey Fangirling gone wrong City of Bones Angels, Demons and Incest Percy Jackson and the lightening theif Magic, Monsters…

Are Fairy Tales just for Children?

My friend Carly and I love fairy tales so our friend came up with some questions for us to answer about our thoughts and feelings on fairy tales and re-tellings of fairy tales in literature. I’ve focused on the literature side of re-tellings, whilst Carly has also looked at re-imaginings of fairy tales in film….

The Gothic Space

In my second year at university I studied a module called “The Female Gothic”. I wrote an essay on Gothic spaces in Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca and The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter. I found this subject really interesting so I thought i’d share the essay to see if anyone else agreed, so enjoy! The gothic space in…

The Book Sacrifice

The Book Sacrifice Three years ago a YouTube personality called Ariel Bissett created a tag called “The Book Sacrifice Tag” and created a video to go along with it. It’s basically a fun game to describe your least favourite books as you are given different scenarios and asked to “sacrifice” a book for each one….

This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen

Title: This Lullaby Author: Sarah Dessen Genre: Young Adult romance Star Rating: 4 stars Sarah Dessen was an author that I discovered by accident one day when I was waiting for a friend in Waterstones. The first book of hers I read was called Just Listen and I’m not really proud to admit that it…

Isle of Winds By James Fahy

  Title: Isle of Winds Author: James Fahy Genre: Fantasy Star Rating: 5 Stars Even though Hell’s teeth is the first book by this author that I reviewed on this blog, Isle of Winds is actually the first published novel by this author, so I thought it only fair to give a s review as…

Top Five Vampire Characters

Top Five Vampire Characters  Vampires have been seen and used in literature for hundreds of years, from a “vampire craze” being reported as occurring in the 1700s, to the “Twilight Mania” that started in 2005, and they continue to be play a huge part in our literature. These are the vampire characters in a book…

Star Ratings

This is just a quick message to let people know how I use the star rating. I use a similar star rating to Goodreads, with all ratings being out of five. The star number means something like this: 5 Star – It was amazing 4 Star – Really liked it 3 Star – Liked it 2…

Hell’s Teeth by James Fahy

This is a NON SPOILER REVIEW Title: Hell’s Teeth Author: James Fahy Genre: Urban Gothic Dystopia Star Rating: 5 stars This book is probably one of my favorite books of 2016, and that is for one simple reason. Phoebe Harkness. In Phoebe you get a heroine who is smart, sassy, brave and so funny I…