Books

Five Fridays: Books I Wish I’d Read Sooner

There’s some books that you read that are just so good you wish you had read sooner. There’s also some books you wish you’d read when you were in your YA paranormal fantasy stage as you definitely would have appreciated it back then. Or maybe you wish you’d read it when it came out as…
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…
Who Has The Final Say in How A Character Looks?

Recently I saw a mood board created by another reader of two main characters from a book I have read. The images they used were very similar to what I had imagined from my own reading. So when the author commented telling them they were completely wrong, I was shocked. As both of us had imagined…
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…
Five Fridays: Books I Wanted To Start Yesterday

You know those books that you really want to read but you’ve just never gotten round to it? There always seems to be a new book that I want to read first. Or I just know I can’t purchase the whole series right now, so I buy a standalone instead. Or many other reasons which…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Fallen Flame

19 years ago a small baby with charred skin as rough as rock was found on Garlin. Vala grew up to be feared for her cursed skin, but the royal family welcomed her as a guard. When the High Kingdoms Queen and Princess are to visit, the prince needs extra protection after an assassination attempt. What…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Nyxia

Ten recruits have been chosen by Babel to go into space to mine a substance called Nyxia. On the way journey Emmett must train and fight for his place to be allowed to go down onto Eden. To create a new life for himself and earn the money to help his family back home. But…