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Book review – Ice Wolves

Ice wolves rather than werewolves, but the Elementals – humans with the ability to shift into wolf form – have talents beyond merely changing shape. The wolves can summon water, creating ice spears to battle their sworn enemies the scorch dragons, a constant threat in...

Book review – Encrypted

Philologist Professor Tikaya Komitopis turned the tide in her country’s war against the marauding Turgonians using her most powerful weapon – her mind. Her talent for languages made her the Kyatt Islands’ most esteemed cryptographer, but her ability to decode...

Book review – Waer

Read this book. Really. Just read it. Lowell Sencha enjoys a peaceful existence in a lush valley among others of his kind. The waer. Humans who can take the form of a wolf. But when Lowell discovers a near-dead girl on a riverbank near his home, and the Sencha family...

Book review – Rise of the Sea Witch

I had doubts about this one, but it turns out I didn’t need to worry. Rise of the Sea Witch by Stacey Rourke details the fall (or rise, depending on how you want to look at it) of mermaid Princess Vanessa of Atlantica, eldest daughter of King Poseidon. She could have...

Book review – Shadow of a Slave

Saffron Bryant’s Shadow of a Slave is the first instalment in the Blood Mage Chronicles. Teen twins Ash and Rae should not exist. They should have been killed at birth. The fact that they’ve avoided the Faceless Monks this long is a miracle, but their luck can’t last....