Uptown Oracle

Book Reviews

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Wren Hunt

    Every Christmas, Wren is chased through the woods by her family’s enemies—the Judges—and there’s nothing that she can do to stop it. Once  the Augurs controlled a powerful magic. But now that power lies with the Judges, who are set on destroying her kind for good. In a  bid to save her family, Wren takes a…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Queen’s Rising

    When her seventeenth summer arrives, Brienna desires to master her passion and to be chosen by a patron. Growing up in at the renowned Magnalia House should have prepared her. While some are born with an innate talent for one of the five passions, Brienna struggled to find hers until she chose to study knowledge. However,…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Keeper

    When a 200-year-old witch attacks her, Lainey Styles is determined to find a logical explanation. Even with the impossible staring her in the face, Lainey refuses to believe it—until she finds a photograph linking the witch to her dead mother. Lainey discovers that she, like her mother, is a Keeper: a witch with the ability…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The New Dark

    There is no “Before”, there is only “Now”. Because now there’s no internet, no TV, no power grid. Food is scarce, and the world’s a hostile place. But Sorrel lives a quiet life in the tiny settlement of Amat. It’s all she’s ever known… Until a gang of marauding mutants destroys the village, snatching her…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… WaR: Wizards and Robots

    Sara Luring is the founder of robot’s, the age-old foes of wizards. The wizards have sent a team to hunt down Sara and stop robots from being created. Geller, a wizard and Ada Luring, Sara’s daughter must learn to work together with the robots to change the past and secure the future. But they don’t…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Elysium Fire

    Ten thousand habitats orbit Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs police. For the Glitter Band the police are the prefects of Panopoly. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction of their neural…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… City of Circles

    City of Circles is an entrancing love story between Danu and Morrie, two circus performers, and Danu’s Lewis Carroll-esque odyssey through the magical city of Matryoshka, that ends with a heart-warming yet bittersweet twist. Danu is a tightrope walker who is mourning her parents, left with a locket that hides a secret. When the circus…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… To Seize a Wayward Spirit

    After a their last mission turned into chaos, Hidden Government chaser Kam and her friends must hunt and recapture souls. Seventeen, to be precise. But by the time they chase down the a goblin soul, a banshee gets assassinated, leaving their progress at negative one. The connection between the goblin and her banshee? A cosplay club.…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads…. Zenith

    Androma Racella, the Bloody Baroness, is a powerful mercenary whose reign of terror stretches across the Mirabel Galaxy. But when a routine mission goes awry, the Marauder‘s all-girl crew is tested as they find themselves in a treacherous situation and at the mercy of a sadistic bounty hunter from Andi’s past. Meanwhile, a ruthless ruler waits…