Uptown Oracle

Book Reviews

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Central Station

    Central Station follows Boris as he returns to Tel Aviv from Mars. His father is terminally ill, his cousin is infatuated with a robotnik and his ex lover is taking care of an orphan who can read his data stream. Everything seems be growing and evolving in the futuristic area at the base of a…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Ninth Circle

    When little sister Hartley goes missing Aiva must rejoin the family business of demon hunting to help Tala find her. Their search takes them into Dublin’s criminal underground. Where the gangs are led by demons and for every circle up they go the danger increases. I’ve read a lot of fantasy books but not many that…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Crowns of Croswald

    For 16 years Ivy Lovely has been hidden behind a barrier that suppresses magic. When she’s kicked out of her maid role, she goes off through the barrier and is found by the headmaster of The Halls of Ivy. She goes to school and meets a mix of wonderful and not so wonderful people along…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Last Namsara

    Asha is a dragon hunter. The fiercest, most feared person in the city of Firgaard and branded the Iskari. The old stories give power to dragons, and so the stories have been outlawed by the Dragon King. What he doesn’t know is that his daughter uses these stories to help catch them.  As Asha learns…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Change: Paris

    The Change Paris follows Loic as he tries to save Adrian from the Impressionists. With Paris’s dark past full of culture there’s many threats throughout. The Impressionists come from the Louvre. The guillotine come alive, Madame Loisette. And then there’s the theatre known for cruelty, torture and death. The Change Paris was written in a…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Change: New York

    The Change has also happened in New York and the whole of Queens is a death trap. Grace must get the Queen of Coney Island to grant her access to Rikers Island to try and find her brother. With the help of ‘God’ and some others along the way she must undertake tasks set by…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Change: London Orbital

    Howard awakens with no memory of what has happened. He soon find’s out about The Change. After being taken in by a group of bikers who are learning to survive, their camp gets attacked. A large monster which can take on others forms begins to terrorise the group. Throughout the entire book, I was questioning…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Voiceless

    When Addy was 13 Maunga Richards stole her voice. Living with Vox Pox, Addy must relearn to write and live with her brothers invention for her to communicate. But when Theo is infected as well, Addy goes to confront Maunga to try and get Theo’s voice back. But when in a virtual psychoreality simulator she…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

    Sybel has grown up with only her father’s teachings and the forgotten beasts of eld. When one day a baby is given into her care, she must learn to love and care for him. When Coren returns years later for the boy, Sybel’s world is turned around all over again. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld…