Uptown Oracle

Book Reviews

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Last Days of Magic

    An epic novel of magic and mysticism, Celts and faeries, mad kings and druids, and the goddess struggling to reign over magic’s last outpost on the Earth. The Last Days of Magic follows the Vatican church trying to take over Ireland at a time where Fey are still strong and the Morrigna are there to…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… My Side of the Diamond

    My Side of the Diamond follows Jazmin as she reiterates the story of how her best friend Becky died. She didn’t just die though, she vanished. Just like magic, as Becky jumped from St Pauls Cathedral but her body never hit the ground. The same thing happened years earlier to Skye and Lazarus, but nothing…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Booke of the Hidden

    Kylie Strange up and moves to the town of Moody Bog to open a Tea and Herb Shop. When she arrives however, she’s thrown into the supernatural after finding the Booke of the Hidden. With the help of the local Wiccans, and a demon she must hunt the monster that’s escaped the Booke. Westerson mentions…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Central Station

    Central Station follows Boris as he returns to Tel Aviv from Mars. His father is terminally ill, his cousin is infatuated with a robotnik and his ex lover is taking care of an orphan who can read his data stream. Everything seems be growing and evolving in the futuristic area at the base of a…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Ninth Circle

    When little sister Hartley goes missing Aiva must rejoin the family business of demon hunting to help Tala find her. Their search takes them into Dublin’s criminal underground. Where the gangs are led by demons and for every circle up they go the danger increases. I’ve read a lot of fantasy books but not many that…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Crowns of Croswald

    For 16 years Ivy Lovely has been hidden behind a barrier that suppresses magic. When she’s kicked out of her maid role, she goes off through the barrier and is found by the headmaster of The Halls of Ivy. She goes to school and meets a mix of wonderful and not so wonderful people along…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Last Namsara

    Asha is a dragon hunter. The fiercest, most feared person in the city of Firgaard and branded the Iskari. The old stories give power to dragons, and so the stories have been outlawed by the Dragon King. What he doesn’t know is that his daughter uses these stories to help catch them.  As Asha learns…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Change: Paris

    The Change Paris follows Loic as he tries to save Adrian from the Impressionists. With Paris’s dark past full of culture there’s many threats throughout. The Impressionists come from the Louvre. The guillotine come alive, Madame Loisette. And then there’s the theatre known for cruelty, torture and death. The Change Paris was written in a…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Change: New York

    The Change has also happened in New York and the whole of Queens is a death trap. Grace must get the Queen of Coney Island to grant her access to Rikers Island to try and find her brother. With the help of ‘God’ and some others along the way she must undertake tasks set by…