Book Reviews

Uptown Oracle Reads… The Burning Girl

The Burning Girl is a coming of age story of best friends Cassie and Julia. As their paths diverge, Cassie starts to make more and more decisions which could endanger not just their friendship but her life. Julia worries but can Cassie really be saved? I wasn’t quite sure what The Burning Girl was about…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Borne

Rachel and Wick are doing all they can to survive in the Balcony Cliffs in this new dystopian earth. When scavenging on Mord’s giant body, Rachel finds Borne. As Rachel becomes maternal towards Borne and Wick becomes suspicious, their survival may start to crumble away. Will their safety be compromised or heightened with Borne in tow?…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Song of Edmon

For my Kindle First book I decided to pick up Song of Edmon by Adam Burch. Song of Edmon* is set in the fictional future on another planet called Tao. After many wars, genocides and destruction, the human race still lives with prejudice, violence and savagery. Then comes Edmon Leontes, a gentle boy of mixed…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Godblind

After years of exile, the Mireces are planning an invasion of Rilpor. Dom, the Calestar, has forseen the messenger of war coming from the borders. When Rillirin, an escaped Mireces slave shows up, the watchers, wolves and ranks of Rilpor must work together to survive to oncoming attacks. The immense battle between faiths in nearly…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Collective

Time travel and pirates are two very interesting topics for a book. R.S. Williams has smashed them into one another to create The Collective. Jenny, an agent from The Collective, meets Tilly in the local university Library one day. Harvey, another agent also takes an interest in Tilly, and ends up kidnapping her through time.…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Monster in the Closet

After a brutal murder, a child is at risk as a leak is within the department trying to protect her. Taylor, the child’s therapist, is the only one she’s started to open up to. But this leaves a target on her back too. Taylor came from California to find her real father, a man her…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

When she was the sole survivor of a mass murder, Lydia and her father move away. When Joey commits suicide, Lydia is left behind wondering what had happened to him and why did he have a photo of her when she was 10 and with the murdered girl. As she works to find out more…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Hollow Crown

The Hollow Crown follows Trynne as a threat rises for the kingdom of Ceredigion. Trynne has grown up learning to be strategic and have a military mind, so when it comes to defending her kingdom, will she become the warrior she’s destined to be? Or the Wizr her parents want from her? I keep started…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Fall

For this months Kindle Lending Library Book of the Month I chose The Fall. I’d seen a lot of ads for it on Facebook, and I think on my Kindle as well. The Fall is about Sam who is a student at Oxford, but he must go on the run from The Shadow. After escaping…