Age Category: YA

Uptown Oracle Reads… City of Bones

The Mortal Instruments Series has been popular for quite a while. Especially when I was around 12 or 13 years old. I just never read them. Probably because no one gave me the books as a gift. The reason I am now reading them is because I watched the TV show on Netflix. Yes, it is…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Missing

Missing is set in Reeve’s End, a small town where kid’s are leaving as soon as they can. No one really take’s this as strange, that is until Winter finds an injured boy in the woods who say’s her childhood friend is missing. When he disappears as well, Winter, with the help of the mysterious…
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… 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 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…