Book Reviews

Uptown Oracle Reads… Night of the Dragon

Night of the DragonJulie Kagawa (Affiliate Links) Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has given up the final piece of the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers in order to save everyone she loves from imminent death. Now she and her ragtag band of companions must journey to the wild sea cliffs of Iwagoto in a desperate last-chance effort…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Girl and The Stars

The Girl and the StarsMark Lawrence (Affiliate Links) In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. On Abeth the vastness of the ice holds no room for individuals. Survival together is barely possible. No one survives alone. To resist the cold, to endure the months…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Burn

BurnPatrick Ness (Affiliate Links) On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm… Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Seven Devils | A Outstanding Feminist Space Crew Ready to Save the Galaxy

I wanted to reach Seven Devils for a couple of different reasons. Firstly, I loved Elizabeth May’s The Falconer and wanted to see what her writing sci-fi was like. I’ve not read any of Laura Lam’s work before, but I’m still excited to see what the two writer set up was like. Then I was…
Try a Chapter and First Impressions Book Reviews | SPFBO 6 2020 Entrants Part 2

Even more books I read from SPFBO 6’s 2020 entrants and here’s my first impressions of them.
Uptown Oracle Reads… Cinderella Is Dead | A Fairy Tale with a Historical Twist

Fairytale is history in Cinderella is Dead. Cinderella is the story of this kingdom, however others have different tales. I enjoyed that the story was also a play of the history being written by the victor, and altered to change the narrative favourably towards himself. The changes to the story were fun, and I liked…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Feathertide | A Magical Tale of Exploration and Finding Yourself

Feathertide starts with the birth of our main character and plenty of questions. Is she a bird? Is she fae? Will her father come for her? Leman, her mother, hides her away for her own safety and the questions we have are mirrored as our character grows up. Living in a brothel, and being taught…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Crow Rider

#Gifted | After finishing The Storm Crow I immediately wanted to find out what happened to Thia, Kiva and Erican and so I was super excited to read The Crow Rider. The premise of giant crows, which are not only super helpful in battle but are vital to the cities that have been built around…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Storm Crow

The Storm Crow starts off with us in flight on the back of a crow. This is such a beautifully written scene, and it truly helps you understand what Thia loses later on in the book. I adored the description of the lift and fall of flying, and it truly helps you imagine what it…