Genre: YA Fantasy

Uptown Oracle Reads… Fable | A Sea-Faring Adventure With a Girl Made of Stone and Glass

Fable is a young girl who was left to fend for herself by her own father, Saint. Growing up on Jevali as a dredger who finds and sells precious gems where possible, she’s suffered more than most as she tries to survive the ruthless island. As she earns just enough to get away, and just…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Sky Weaver | A Dazzling Tale of Dragons, Pirates and Gods

The Sky Weaver brings back Safire as a link to the previous books, and includes what happens to the other leads of both The Last Namsara and The Caged Queen. I thought this was a good tie-in to the overall series, but similar to when reading The Caged Queen I felt like I’d forgotten a…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Hunter and The Mage

The Hunter and The Mage Kaitlyn Davis (Affiliate Links) A mage written in prophecy… When Lyana wakes in the Sea of Mist, adventure is the first thing on her mind. But between her unruly new magic and an unyielding young king, the world below comes with more responsibility than she ever dreamed. An entire civilization…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Grace & Fury

The first thing I have to say about Grace & Fury is that I think I’ve actually read it before and have just forgot. There’s one scene that caused a spark of recognition and then it repeated for some of the other core scenes throughout the book, mostly for Nomi’s storyline. However, whilst I did…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Viper

I re-watched Pirates of the Caribbean and wanted to read a pirate-y book, so Viper was strongly suggested by Connie. It has pirates, a sea adventure and many great characters that you grow to love.
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… 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…