Uptown Oracle

Book Reviews

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Legion 

    Legion is the penultimate book of the Talon series by Julia Kagawa, and it’s really bringing the action. I feel like so much is packed into this book. It’s made me excited to read the final one when it’s released. We finally get to see dragon action in the war-setting that the previous books set…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Soldier

    The third book of the Talon Series, Soldier, has exceeded the previous two books  in my eyes. Although smaller than the previous installments, it’s faster paced and full of action. It’s so much more enthralling and I just wanted to rush through it. The plot of Soldier seemed a lot more like the ‘war’ promised…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Rogue

    So I’ve now finished Rogue, the second book in Julie Kagawa’s Talon Series. Kagawa has moved on from a YA light-hearted romance feel of Talon to the much more serious Rogue*. With break outs, break ins, a chase and action I was much more excited. Rogue greatly improved the lack of action from the first book.…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Talon

    I purchased Talon* because I was approved to read Legion on NetGalley. After realising that there were three previous books in the series I decided to speed read them in bulk. I loved Kagawa’s Iron Fey series so much, and I also quite like dragons. So this series was definitely promising. Luckily Talon arrived first…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Noteworthy

    My first thought while reading Noteworthy was that it connected with both Pitch Perfect and She’s the Man. As I love both of these films, I knew then that I would love this book. I loved the discussion about being feminine that Jordan has in her head. I feel like it’s a really important point…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… All The Places I’ve Ever Lived

    I received All The Places I’ve Ever Lived* by David Gaffney as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley. This is an unbiased and honest review. I found this book… strange. But in a good way. It’s got mass murder, a ghost who isn’t really a ghost? time travel and some teen drama as well. When I…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Inconceivable Life of Quinn

    I received The Inconceivable Life of Quinn* by Marianna Baer as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley. This is an unbiased and honest review. A sense of magic in an otherwise normal world was… strange. Especially since it arrived at a fairly late part of the book. Although I enjoy fantasy books filled with magic, this book didn’t…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The List

    I recieved The List* by Patricia Forde as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley. This is an unbiased and honest review. Living in a post-flood dystopian world, language has been culled to a small selection of approved lexicon. Letta is a wordsmith, one of the privileged who can use more words. I liked this book, it was a…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Ensnared

    EnsnaredRita Stradling (Affiliate Links) A Near Future Retelling of Beauty and the Beast Alainn’s father is not a bad man. He’s a genius and an inventor. When he’s hired to create the robot Rose, Alainn knows taking the money is a mistake. Rose acts like a human. She looks exactly like Alainn. But, something in…