Publisher: HarperVoyager

Uptown Oracle Reads… The Girl and the Mountain | Stunning 2nd novel for Book of Ice Series

After loving The Girl and the Stars I just had to pick up the second book in the Book of Ice Series. The good thing is the book continues off straight after the cliffhanger of the first book, so you’re straight back into the story and excited to know more. If you’re reading them straight…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Sisters Grimm | A Unique Retelling of Classic Fairytales

The Sisters GrimmMenna van Praag (Affiliate Links) Once upon a time, a demon who desired earthly domination fathered an army of dark daughters to help him corrupt humanity . . . As children, Goldie, Liyana, Scarlet, and Bea dreamed of a strange otherworld: a nightscape of mists and fog, perpetually falling leaves and hungry ivy,…
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… Holy Sister

Holy SisterMark Lawrence (Affiliate Links) Nona Grey’s story reaches its shattering conclusion in the third instalment of Book of the Ancestor. They came against her as a child. Now they face the woman. The ice is advancing, the Corridor narrowing, and the empire is under siege from the Scithrowl in the east and the Durns…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Grey Sister

Grey SisterMark Lawrence (Affiliate Links) In Mystic Class Nona Grey begins to learn the secrets of the universe. But so often even the deepest truths just make our choices harder. Before she leaves the Convent of Sweet Mercy Nona must choose her path and take the red of a Martial Sister, the grey of a…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Tempests and Slaughter

| Amazon | Waterstones |Tempests and SlaughterTamora Pierce Arram Draper is a boy on the path to becoming one of the realm’s most powerful mages. The youngest student in his class at the Imperial University of Carthak, he has a Gift with unlimited potential for greatness–and for attracting danger. At his side are his two…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Blood of the Four

In the great kingdom of Quandis, everyone is a slave. Some are slaves to the gods. Most are slaves to everyone else. Blessed by the gods with lives of comfort and splendor, the royal elite routinely perform their duties, yet some chafe at their role. A young woman of stunning ambition, Princess Phela refuses to allow…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Red Sister

At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. But the mistresses of sword and shadow don’t truly understand the trouble the eight year old Nona Grey brings with her. Despite the security and…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Godblind

After years of exile, the Mireces are planning an invasion of Rilpor. Dom, the Calestar, has forseen the messenger of war coming from the borders. When Rillirin, an escaped Mireces slave shows up, the watchers, wolves and ranks of Rilpor must work together to survive to oncoming attacks. The immense battle between faiths in nearly…