Book Reviews

Uptown Oracle Reads… Ready Player One

In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade’s devoted his life to studying Halliday’s past to unlock the puzzles and win the ultimate prize. When Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Starlings

A strange Eritrean coin travels from lovers to thieves, gathering stories before meeting its match. Google becomes sentient and proceeds toward an existential crisis. An idealistic dancer on a generation ship makes an impassioned plea for creativity and survival. Three Irish siblings embark on an unlikely quest, stealing enchanted items via bad poetry, trickery, and…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Traitor Prince

Javan has been at school for 10 years and is only just returning to his kingdom and father. Before he has the chance however, he miraculously survives assassination attempts only to find that an impostor is posing as him. When he tries to let the palace guards know, his uncle betrays him and he’s sent…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Honor Among Thieves

Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that’s made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn’t much better than a prison cell. Still, when Zara commits a crime that has her running scared, jail…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Paris Adrift

Determined to escape her old life, Hallie packs up her life in England and heads to Paris. She falls in with the eclectic expat community as a bartender at the notorious Millie’s, located next to the Moulin Rouge. Here she meets Gabriela, a bartender who guides her through this strange nocturnal world, and begins to find…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Hazel Wood

Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the bad luck at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Wren Hunt

Every Christmas, Wren is chased through the woods by her family’s enemies—the Judges—and there’s nothing that she can do to stop it. Once the Augurs controlled a powerful magic. But now that power lies with the Judges, who are set on destroying her kind for good. In a bid to save her family, Wren takes a…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Queen’s Rising

When her seventeenth summer arrives, Brienna desires to master her passion and to be chosen by a patron. Growing up in at the renowned Magnalia House should have prepared her. While some are born with an innate talent for one of the five passions, Brienna struggled to find hers until she chose to study knowledge. However,…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Keeper

When a 200-year-old witch attacks her, Lainey Styles is determined to find a logical explanation. Even with the impossible staring her in the face, Lainey refuses to believe it—until she finds a photograph linking the witch to her dead mother. Lainey discovers that she, like her mother, is a Keeper: a witch with the ability…