by Sarah | Mar 10, 2020 | Life
I love nature … but lately I’ve discovered that this love is conditional. My love of nature is conditional upon nature being where nature should be – outside. Once it breaches the perimeter though, all bets are off. One night recently, when I was hanging out on the...
by Sarah | Apr 19, 2018 | Reviews
Though it’s sci-fi rather than fantasy, I thoroughly enjoyed Unearthed. On Gaia’s unforgiving surface, academic Jules forges an unlikely and often uneasy alliance with scavver, Mia in his quest to decipher the cryptic riddle of an extinct alien race. While Mia’s...
by Sarah | Apr 19, 2018 | Reviews
Book 2 in the Summoner series by Taran Matharu, is a genuine page-turner. Framed for murder, Fletcher endures a farcical trial but in the course of the inquisition his heritage is revealed. Armed with his true identity, which is as big a surprise to him as everyone...
by Sarah | Sep 20, 2017 | Reviews
I snuck outside the fantasy genre to read Jim Reay’s Catching Legends and was hooked from the beginning. When Rockhampton high school student Alfredo de Faino attends a Philosophy club meeting to impress the exotic Julia, he has no inkling of the intrigue that will...
by Sarah | Sep 20, 2017 | Reviews
Check out Jasper Fforde’s Dragonslayer series. I recently read The Last Dragonslayer and have added the sequel, Song of the Quarkbeast to my Goodreads bookshelf. The protagonist, Jennifer Strange is a sassy, down-to-earth teen who runs an employment agency for...
