Genre: Science Fiction

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… 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…
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… Perfect

Celestine North wants to clear her name from being flawed. On the run with Carrick, the only one she can trust with a dark secret which could tear down the guild. Therefore, Celestine must make a decision. Save herself, or save everyone from being flawed. Perfect started by recapping the first book, Perfect. As I read…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Flawed

In a world where making a poor decision is a punishable offence, Celestine North has been living her life perfectly. But one wrong decision means Celestine is branded flawed. Celestine’s perfect life is going to be completely different to how she had planned. I loved the premise of the book. Society is removing poor decisions…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The List

I recieved The List* by Patricia Forde as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley. This is an unbiased and honest review. Living in a post-flood dystopian world, language has been culled to a small selection of approved lexicon. Letta is a wordsmith, one of the privileged who can use more words. I liked this book, it was a…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Ensnared

EnsnaredRita Stradling (Affiliate Links) A Near Future Retelling of Beauty and the Beast Alainn’s father is not a bad man. He’s a genius and an inventor. When he’s hired to create the robot Rose, Alainn knows taking the money is a mistake. Rose acts like a human. She looks exactly like Alainn. But, something in…
Uptown Oracle reads… Revenger

I received Revenger by Alastair Reynolds as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I was completely and utterly entranced by Revenger. After reading multiple books which were kinda ‘eh’ I was thrown out of my reading habit because I was bored. Revenger manged to reel me straight back…