Book Reviews

Uptown Oracle Reads… The Wendy

Wendy Darling is an orphan, living in an overcrowded almshouse, ridiculed for believing in a future she can never have. More than anything in the world, she wants to be the captain of a ship. By 1789, she’s sixteen, old enough to be sold into service as a dressmaker or a servant. When she learns…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Blackheath

Seventeen-year-old Maggie Ellmes is dogged by a case of chronic bad luck. She figures that’s just her lot in life—that is, until the psychic at Blackheath’s annual carnival reveals that Maggie’s problems are caused by more than just ordinary misfortune; she’s actually been cursed. Desperate to shake the hex, Maggie has no choice but to…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Bone Witch

When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different. Her gift for necromancy means that she’s a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community. But Tea finds solace and guidance with an older, wiser bone witch, who takes Tea and her brother to another…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Here We Are Now

Despite sending him letters ever since she was thirteen, Taliah Abdallat never thought she’d ever really meet Julian Oliver. But one day, while her mother is out of the country, the famed rock star from Staring Into the Abyss shows up on her doorstep. This makes sense – kinda – because Julian Oliver is Taliah’s…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Sunflowers in February

Lily wakes up one crisp Sunday morning on the side of the road. She has no idea how she got there. It is all very peaceful. and very beautiful. It is only when the police car, and then the ambulance arrive, and she sees her own body, that she realises that she is in fact……
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Gilded King

In the Blue, the world’s last city, all is not well. Julia is trapped. She serves the nobility until she meets Lucas, a boy who believes in fairytales that Julia’s world can’t accommodate. The Blue is her prison, and she’d escape into the trees if she didn’t know that contamination and death awaited humanity outside.…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Waking Land

Lady Elanna Valtai is devoted to the King who raised her like a daughter. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder and must flee for her life. Returning to her homeland, Elanna is forced to reckon with her despised, estranged father. Feeling a strange, deep connection to the natural world,…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Blood of the Four

In the great kingdom of Quandis, everyone is a slave. Some are slaves to the gods. Most are slaves to everyone else. Blessed by the gods with lives of comfort and splendor, the royal elite routinely perform their duties, yet some chafe at their role. A young woman of stunning ambition, Princess Phela refuses to allow…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Palom

Linaria’s cities lie in ruin following Aciel’s war. As dragons turn against the survivors the devastation worsens. The world attempts to recover from one war and arm itself against another, Palom, hero and creator of the dragon-forged weapons that thwarted Aciel, flees across the Val Sharis wilds to rid himself of unwanted fame. Overwhelmed by guilt…