Mirror Mirror – an honest review

Mirror Mirror Jessica Jesinghaus Nearly twenty years ago a teenage girl was murdered... Samantha Carlson was just a young girl when her cousin, Emily, was brutally raped and killed in her own home. As a child, Sam's family did their best to shelter her from the gruesome details. Now, working the crime beat for the...

Filthy Rich

Filthy Rich Three illegitimate children discover they each have a claim to the fortune of one of NZ's wealthiest men, John Truebridge. With so much money on the line, John's legitimate family will do anything to stop these new, unexpected heirs! I stumbled across this series quite by accident, and this is one fall I'm...

Mirth Defects

Mirth Defects Clint Forgy I was given an advanced copy of this book for review and I'm glad I was. I like comedy but as a visual medium, it's not a genre I usually read because it's very hard to get right, so I was a little nervous about this book; my uncertainty disappeared by...

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones A Song Of Fire And Ice Book One George R R Martin ‘When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground’Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. From the fertile south, where heat breeds...

Raised by Wolves

The Garry family are an unconventional family; Della raises her six children (five daughters and one son) in a small house with the help of their grandfather, who has split from their grandmother, where they are home-schooled and taught the art of fending for themselves in the big bad world. Among the lessons they are...

Commando

Commando A retired elite Black Ops Commando launches a one man war against a group of South American criminals who have kidnapped his daughter to blackmail him into starting a revolution and getting an exiled dictator back into power. This is one of the numerous action movies Arnie did in the 80's, which means it's...

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before-and survival, for her, is second nature. The Hunger Games is a searing...

Sharpe’s Tiger

Sharpe's Tiger Bernard Cornwell Richard Sharpe is a private, fighting with the British army in India, and he's had enough of it. He's ready to desert when he's punished for striking the sergeant who is making his life a misery; the capture of a British agent by the Tippoo of Mysore provides him with an...

Insomnia

Insomnia Stephen King Since his wife died, Ralph Roberts has been having trouble sleeping. Each night he awakens a little earlier until he's barely sleeping at all. During his late night vigils and walks, he observes some strange things going on in Derry, Maine. He sees colored ribbons streaming from people's heads. He witnesses two...

Pawn Of Prophecy

Pawn Of Prophecy (The Belgariad Book One) David Eddings A battle is coming... ...And in that battle shall be decided the fate of the world Myths tell of the ancient wars of Gods and men, and a powerful object – the Orb – that ended the bloodshed. As long as it was held by the...