Books

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…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Aurabel

Aurabel is the titular character whilst we spend our time under the sea. As tensions rise in the mer society, Sienna is rising up to try and take the crown. But she uses dirty tricks and both Aurabel and Lorali have a bone to pick with her by the end. I didn’t realise this was…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Party Girls Die In Pearls

Party Girls Die in Pearls is a high class whodunnit murder mystery. Ursula has just started at Oxford University and finds a dead girl in her first week. As she wan’t to be part of the University Newspaper, Ursula must solve the mystery by her deadline Sunday. Alongside this she must make friends, socialise, work…