Genre: Fantasy

Uptown Oracle Reads… The Trouble With Peace

The Trouble with PeaceJoe Abercrombie (Affiliate Links) Conspiracy. Betrayal. Rebellion. Peace is just another kind of battlefield… Savine dan Glokta, once Adua’s most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in her way. For heroes like Leo…
Uptown Oracle Reads… A Little Hatred

Whilst A Little Hatred is based on a world Abercrombie has wrote about before, you don’t need to have read Abercrombie’s other books to enjoy it. The book also nicely wraps up the conflicts in this book, but leaves certain aspects open for the second book to continue. Overall it’s an exciting new series to…
Uptown Oracle Reads… A Song Below Water

A Song Below WaterBethany C Morrow (Affiliate Links) Tavia is already at odds with the world, forced to keep her siren identity under wraps in a society that wants to keep her kind under lock and key. Never mind she’s also stuck in Portland, Oregon, a city with only a handful of black folk and…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Night of the Dragon

Night of the DragonJulie Kagawa (Affiliate Links) Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has given up the final piece of the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers in order to save everyone she loves from imminent death. Now she and her ragtag band of companions must journey to the wild sea cliffs of Iwagoto in a desperate last-chance effort…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Girl and The Stars

The Girl and the StarsMark Lawrence (Affiliate Links) In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. On Abeth the vastness of the ice holds no room for individuals. Survival together is barely possible. No one survives alone. To resist the cold, to endure the months…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Burn

BurnPatrick Ness (Affiliate Links) On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm… Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Cinderella Is Dead | A Fairy Tale with a Historical Twist

Fairytale is history in Cinderella is Dead. Cinderella is the story of this kingdom, however others have different tales. I enjoyed that the story was also a play of the history being written by the victor, and altered to change the narrative favourably towards himself. The changes to the story were fun, and I liked…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Feathertide | A Magical Tale of Exploration and Finding Yourself

Feathertide starts with the birth of our main character and plenty of questions. Is she a bird? Is she fae? Will her father come for her? Leman, her mother, hides her away for her own safety and the questions we have are mirrored as our character grows up. Living in a brothel, and being taught…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Crow Rider

#Gifted | After finishing The Storm Crow I immediately wanted to find out what happened to Thia, Kiva and Erican and so I was super excited to read The Crow Rider. The premise of giant crows, which are not only super helpful in battle but are vital to the cities that have been built around…