Book Reviews

Uptown Oracle Reads… Those Who Lie

I received Those Who Lie* by Dianne Jeffrey as an e-book from the lovely Jenny! Those Who Lie focuses on Emily Klein, a widow who may or may not have something to do with her husbands tragic death. As she tries to remember what really happened before the car accident, strange things stir up old memories. Emily…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Reader

I recieved The Reader* by MK Harkins as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley. This is an unbiased and honest review. Within this world, alongside humans there are also ‘readers’, ‘jacks’ and the now extinct ‘seers’. When Ann meets two young readers as she washes ashore with amnesia, she takes their protection and follows them back…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Miranda and Caliban

Miranda is a lonely child. For as long as she can remember, she and her father have lived in isolation in the abandoned Moorish palace. There are chickens and goats, and a terrible wailing spirit trapped in a pine tree, but the elusive wild boy who spies on her from the crumbling walls and leaves…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Cover Me In Darkness

I received Cover Me in Darkness* by Eileen Rendahl as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley. This is an unbiased and honest review. An intriguing mystery surrounds Amanda Sinclair and she’s in a rush to solve it.Since leaving the Children of the Greater God (COGG), Amanda has started a career and is starting to enjoy…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Today Will Be Different

I received Today Will Be Different* by Maria Semple as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. The premise of improving yourself by being a good wife, mother and friend is an easily relatable quest. The inability to complete this quest due to life getting in the way is even…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Schooldays of Jesus

I received The Schooldays of Jesus by J M Coetzee as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. The book was on the Man Booker Prize Long List, which was my first fascination to read it. My next interest was the cover (yes, I know you shouldn’t judge a book…
Uptown Oracle reads… Revenger

I received Revenger by Alastair Reynolds as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I was completely and utterly entranced by Revenger. After reading multiple books which were kinda ‘eh’ I was thrown out of my reading habit because I was bored. Revenger manged to reel me straight back…
Uptown Oracle reads… Beat the Rain

I received Beat the Rain by Nigel Jay Cooper as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to John Hunt Publishing and Nigel who I also spoke to! “Louise, grieving the death of her lover Tom, does the only thing she can think of to make the…
Uptown Oracle reads… Truly Madly Guilty

I received Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. “Despite their differences, Erika and Clementine have been best friends since they were children. So when Erika needs help, Clementine should be the obvious person to turn to. Or so you’d think. For…