Book Reviews

Uptown Oracle Reads… Good Me Bad Me

The book starts of strong as we meet Milly (previously called Annie) as she copes with a guilty conscience from both knowing about her mothers crimes, and turning her in to the police. This has a lot of trigger warnings and is very dark, these include abuse, sexual abuse, murder, child abuse and bullying.
Uptown Oracle Reads… Saving Fable

Saving FableScott Reintgen (Affiliate Links) Side characters can be heroes too in this charming and fast-paced adventure that is The Land of Stories meets The Phantom Tollbooth! Indira has been a character-in-waiting her entire life. So she can’t believe her luck when she’s finally chosen to travel to Fable and study at the renowned Protagonist…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Emily Eternal

Emily EternalM.G. Wheaton (Affiliate Links) Meet Emily – she can solve advanced mathematical problems, unlock the mind’s deepest secrets and even fix your truck’s air con, but unfortunately, she can’t restart the Sun. She’s an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Good Luck Girls

The country of Arketta calls them Good Luck Girls – they know their luck is anything but. Sold to a “welcome house” as children and branded with cursed markings. Trapped in a life they would never have chosen.
Uptown Oracle Reads… Holy Sister

Holy SisterMark Lawrence (Affiliate Links) Nona Grey’s story reaches its shattering conclusion in the third instalment of Book of the Ancestor. They came against her as a child. Now they face the woman. The ice is advancing, the Corridor narrowing, and the empire is under siege from the Scithrowl in the east and the Durns…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Grey Sister

Grey SisterMark Lawrence (Affiliate Links) In Mystic Class Nona Grey begins to learn the secrets of the universe. But so often even the deepest truths just make our choices harder. Before she leaves the Convent of Sweet Mercy Nona must choose her path and take the red of a Martial Sister, the grey of a…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Lud-in-the-Mist

Lud-in-the-MistHope Mirrlees (Affiliate Links) The town of Lud is a prosperous, bustling little country port, situated at the confluence of two rivers: the Dawl and the Dapple. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie beyond the Elfin Marches and the Debatable Hills, is a source of great trial to Lud, which…
Uptown Oracle Reads… City of Girls

City of GirlsElizabeth Gilbert (Affiliate Links) In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Into The Crooked Place

Into the Crooked PlaceAlexandra Christo (Affiliate Links) The streets of Creije are for the deadly and the dreamers, and four crooks in particular know just how much magic they need up their sleeve to survive. Tavia, a busker ready to pack up her dark-magic wares and turn her back on Creije for good. She’ll do…