Pages:
95
Publisher:
Bloomsbury
Release
Date: 30th
March 2012
Series:
Throne of
Glass #0.2
Edition:
e-book,
purchased
Synopsis
The
Silent Assassins of the Red Desert aren’t much for conversation, and Celaena Sardothien
won’t have it any other way. She’s not there to chatter, she’s there to hone
her craft as the world’s most feared killer for hire. Quiet suits her just fine
– until she begins to suspect there’s a traitor in the fortress, and she must
determine which of the mute and mysterious assassins is her deadly adversary.
Mini-review
Man, I’m in love with
everything this woman writes. The
Assassin and the Desert picks up shortly after Celaena and Sam have
returned home from their adventures in Skull’s Bay and faced the consequences. It
really feels like a series and many references and connections are made between
them which I loved.
While at the fortress, Celaena
makes friends with Ansel who I fell in love with immediately. She’s strong,
bolshy and very much like Celaena. There were good for each other and it was
nice to see Celaena interacts with girls and learn a little humility really.
then there’s an explosive twist that made me whine ‘Nooooo’ at my uncaring cat.
With the character growth,
brilliant story and a stunning setting that I’m beginning to see is one of
Sarah J Maas’ strengths, The Assassin and
the Desert was a great way to spend an hour of my Sunday and I’ve already
downloaded the next story in the series.
Bones in Her
Pocket – Kathy Reichs
Pages: 80
Publisher: Cornerstone Digital
Release Date: 11th July 2013
Series: Temperance Brennan #15.5
Edition: e-book, purchased
Synopsis
Dr. Tempe Brennan has seen it all. Human bones.
Animal bones. Old bones. Young bones. Male bones. Female bones. What she hasn’t
seen is all of them mixed together in the same case.
Until now.
The foothills of North Carolina aren’t the only unfamiliar
territory Tempe faces as she races to learn the meaning of the Bones in her
Pocket.
Mini-review
It’s
been a long, long time since I’ve read a Tempernace Brennan novel – about three
years – even though I pre-order the new one in super-expensive hardback each
year... It was lovely to be back in Tempe’s world of science, floaters and convoluted
cases. As ever, I loved Kathy Rsichs’ unrestrained use of science terms and
words/techniques specific to forensic anthropology; it just feels so authentic.
And I learn things! It’s good to get a brain work out in a book every now and
again.
I’d
never noticed how sharp and staccato Reichs’ prose is before and it’s given me
a whole new respect for her (to add to the towering pile...) and I’m now eager
to go back and read the books that I’ve missed. I actually genuinely started to
panic at the lack of mentioning of one of the characters in the main novels,
Andrew Ryan, who I love, and was terrified that I’d missed something huge. There
wasn’t nearly as much of Tempe’s personal life and goings on than there would
be in the novels and I was interested to discover that that was what Reichs
dropped to make a short story.
Bones in her Pocket will be a wonderful
introduction to Tempe’s world for new readers and a jump start to get stuck
back to those who have gone astray. I’m so glad I read this.
Duelling
Magics
– Stephanie Burgis
Pages:
20
Publisher:
Five Fathoms
Press
Release
Date: 24th
February 2013
Series:
A Most
Improper Magick #1.5
Edition:
e-book, free
Kindle download
Synopsis
Regency
England’s most magically mischievous twelve-year-old returns in this witty
short story of sisterly rivalry.
Kat
will do almost anything to escape a tedious shopping trip with Stepmama and her
sisters...but when she ends up in a magical duel of wits with her older sister
Angeline, no one can predict the results!
Mini-review
At only twenty pages Duelling Magics is short and sweet, and
so much fun. I love Kat’s world of magical Regency England and I hadn’t
realised how much I enjoyed being there until I rediscovered it. It’s made me
determined to get around to the final book in the trilogy by the end of the
year. Kat, Elissa and Angeline are just so much fun to be around and I would
have loved to have grown up in that house, even with the chaos, pranks and
torture of older sisters!
A gorgeous addition to a
wonderful trilogy!
Sophie
I tried to read a Brennan book a while back but for me, she exists in the TV show Bones and the books just don't work. Shame really.
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