Broken by Kelley Armstrong

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


I like Elena. She's a stroppy woman but not just for the sake of being stroppy. You have to be that way around the kind of men she's grown up with, otherwise they would just walk right over you.

This is new territory for both Elena and the author. Elena is pregnant, and unsure. The author also seemed to be uncertain how to make a very pregnant werewolf also be an active fighting participant. So we have a lot of filler - the characters going round and round in circles, and the story also not really going anywhere.





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Breathing in Colour by Clare Jay

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“These are the stars we catch before I go to sleep,” Mia had announced, her eyes ablaze with pride as she pointed at the sequins. “When the pink ones sparkle, they fizz in my mouth like sherbet.”

This is a really lovely story. The themes are not so lovely - a teenage daughter gone missing in India, divorce, abandonment, estrangement, and yet the author has done a really stellar job of addressing all these topics without being heavy and depressing but still serious and sincere.

The main characters behaviour while not always likeable is believable. They are normal people with normal reactions.

Mia has a condition which means that you experience emotions etc as colours as feelings. It adds a lovely poetical tone to the story.



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Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Hmmm. What I liked best about this story was the ending because Stephen King so often sucks at endings. I actually struggled a little to get through this. It didn't grab me like the others.

However, this one the characters are almost normal. I din't really see the point in Pere's story i.e. why we had to have his whole life story that way. I think it ruined the pace for me.



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The Second Mrs. Darcy by Elizabeth Aston

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This is not one of those stories that you just can't put down. It just kind of meanders along, and stuff happens but nothing super interesting. So, it's interesting that regardless, it was good enough to read to the end.

Didn't love it, didn't hate it.



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Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict- Laurie Viera Rigler

A closet Jane Austen addict, Courteney Stone delves into J.A's novels whenever she needs solace, comfort, or anything really.So it seems inevitable that one day she wakes up and she seems to actually be living the life of someone who could certainly have been one of Austen's characters. Is she dreaming?delusional?drunk? Read it for yourself and find out.

Romanitas - Sophia McDougall

'This is the first of three books set in a Roman Empire which never fell but spread to take in half the world.'

The story begins with Marcus age 16, who's parents have both just been killed and whose coffins are making a slow procession throughout the city. Now Rome is left with the question of who will be the next Emperor. Marcus? One of his uncles? A cousin?

Meanwhile, a young man is waiting to be crucified and a young malnourished girl is making her slow and painful way through the city. For what purpose?

I didn't realise that this was the first of 3 books so I was taken by surprise when the story ended long before I was ready for it. Not that I felt that the story was unfinished, but because I still wanted to know more about the characters.

It took me a few pages to get into the story, but I'm glad that I persevered. Plus it took me a little while to get my head around a futuristic Rome.

Dragon Blood (The Hurog Duology, Book 2)- Patricia Briggs

Sequel to Dragon Bones. Ward has been Hurogmeten for a few years now. He is slowly rebuilding his keep. And the land is also recovering from the curse of the Dragon Bones. So all should be well. Except that Jakoven still reigns and he is as power hungry and vengeful as ever.

It's a good sequel. I still enjoyed the first story more but not by much more.
recommended reading - teen fiction
anyone who likes fantasy