Brave New World

Okay. OKAY. So, I read Brave New World, and this is a book I probably never would have read outside of my University course, but oh my gosh, it was really really good.  Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements...

The Time Machine

Back in June, I read H. G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau, a book which I'd wanted to read for a while and found myself really really enjoying (even if it was confusing and creepy and weird). And for one of my university units, I had to read H. G. Wells' The Time Machine....

Doctor Sleep (and my lack of sleep)

LADS L A D S I read Doctor Sleep. I've finished my first Stephen King book of the year/decade and my LORD it was a good 'un. Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan...

One Of Us Is Next

If you haven't heard, there's a sequel to One Of Us Is Lying (aka one of my favourite books) called One Of Us Is Next. So when I found out there was a sequel, well I just about screamed until I got my hands on it.  And I'm so gosh darn happy!! It is a...

A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange is one of those books I never thought I'd get around to reading any time soon and I never really had a desire to read it. BUT the perks of doing an English degree is I get to read the books I never even thought about, and while I didn't love this book,...

Dry

Yes, I did just make a big post about Shusterman's Scythe series and I know I'm probably sounding like a broken record just talking about his books, but I just read Dry and I'm still not okay!! This book is brilliant BRILLIANT I tells you!!! Everyone's going to remember where they were when the taps...

Scythe Trilogy ft. me crying like a baby

As is widely known, my favourite book series to exist is the Unwind series by Neal Shusterman. I adore it so much and I've definitely read the first one at least ten times. I've also read another one of his series, the Skinjacker trilogoy. And then a few months ago I read both Scythe and Thunderhead...

The Corset (and why you should definitely read it)

I have read some truly terrible books this year. And I have read some absolutely amazing books this year. The Corset, I am happy to announce, lands itself squarely in the latter category.  Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain? Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visitor and prisoner. Powerful and powerless. Dorothea...

The Silver Kiss

So, I read a vampire book. and it was set around teenagers. and the vampire was the sad, depressed, broody type. and I LOVED IT. Like, I really, really liked it. This was another book I had to read for one of my University units and I wasn't expecting to like it this much. Zoe...

The Big Sleep

Ew. EW. E W  I had to read this book for my Crime And Terror university unit and at first, was kind of excited. I'd heard of Raymond Chandler before and I'm trying to read different books to what I usually chose, but my god. My life. No. I could not stand this book. At...