Uptown Oracle

Genre: Retellings

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Court of Miracles | Criminal Masterminds during the French Revolution

    Uptown Oracle Reads… Court of Miracles | Criminal Masterminds during the French Revolution

    The Court of MiraclesKester Grant (Affiliate Links) Les Misérables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris’s criminal underground in the wake of the French Revolution. In the violent urban jungle of an alternate 1828 Paris, the French Revolution has failed and the city…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… A Curse so Dark and Lonely

    Uptown Oracle Reads… A Curse so Dark and Lonely

    Overall I enjoyed the book, and found that there were a few twists and turns that are different to the original. I also found out that there will be a second book which continues this tale! There’s a slight cliffhanger, but not one that’s too frustrating.

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… The Wendy

    Wendy Darling is an orphan, living in an overcrowded almshouse, ridiculed for believing in a future she can never have. More than anything in the world, she wants to be the captain of a ship. By 1789, she’s sixteen, old enough to be sold into service as a dressmaker or a servant. When she learns…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Heart of Iron

    Found as a child drifting through space with D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the crew she now calls family. But D09 – one of the last remaining illegal Metals – has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him. Ana’s desperate effort leads…

  • 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…

  • Uptown Oracle Reads… Miranda and Caliban

    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…