Book Reviews

Uptown Oracle Reads… Everless

In the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency. The rich tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. A decade ago, she and her father were servants at Everless, the Gerlings’ palatial estate, until a fateful accident forced them to flee in the dead of night. When Jules discovers that her…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Stalker

A video-clip is sent to the National Criminal Investigation Department. Someone has secretly filmed a woman through her window from the garden. The next day she is found dead after a frenzied knife-attack. The police receive a second film of another unknown woman. There is no way of identifying her before time runs out. As…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Cruel Prince

Seven year old Jude and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the cruel prince. To win a place at the Court, she…
Uptown Oracle Reads… This Mortal Coil

Catarina Agatta is an all round gene-hacking genius. Her father Dr. Lachlan Agatta, a legendary geneticist, was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called Cartaxus, leaving Cat to survive the last two years on her own. Cartaxus soldier, Cole, arrives with news that her father has died and also brings a message: before he died, he…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Bonfire

It has been ten years since Abby Williams left her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands. But a new case takes her back home to Barrens. Tasked with investigating the town’s most high-profile company and…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Red Sister

At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. But the mistresses of sword and shadow don’t truly understand the trouble the eight year old Nona Grey brings with her. Despite the security and…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Fix Me

The new drug Fix is extremely addictive and is what Pen’s sister was on before she killed herself. As Pen tries to quit the drug, she wants to find out who the mysterious Nate is as she only see’s him in her head, why her sister killed herself and where the missing girls are…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Eleanor Oliphant struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully time-tabled life. Then everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond – and it is Raymond that will help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged heart. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Wings Unseen

The Meduans and Lanserim have maintained an uneasy truce for two generations. As Janto sets out for his Murat, Serra accepts an invitation to study with the religious Brotherhood. What she finds instead is a horror that threatens both countries. To defeat it, Janto and Serra must learn to work together with the only person…