Well paced plot, exciting setting, intriguing mystery and lots emotional turmoil, all skilfully woven together by the author. When her mother is unable to look after her due to illness, Freja is sent from her home in Denmark to Singapore to live with her father and his new family, 2nd wife Clementine, and their young […]
Tag: Horror
Book Review: Long Lost by Jacqueline West
When eleven-year-old Fiona Crane’s family move to a little town called Lost Lake, taking Fiona away from all her friends, just so that sister Arden can be closer to the skating rink, Fiona is hurt, angry and really fed up. It seems that all that ever matters to her parents is Arden’s potential Olympic career. […]
Book Giveaway – win these six middle grade fantasy books
To celebrate the launch of my own middle grade fantasy, The Lucky Diamond, I am doing a give away of six fabulous middle grade fantasy paperback books. I’ve selected five books I hugely enjoyed this year, so I can personally recommend them. The sixth book is on my TBR and I am really looking forward […]
Book Review: Dark Waters
In Dark Waters, Ollie, her Dad, Coco and Brian are taken on a boat trip across Lake Champion by Coco’s Mum, who is researching Champy, the fabled monster of the lake. Passing through a strange mist, an apparently uncharted island appears. When the boat is rammed and sunk by an unseen monster, Ollie, Coco and […]
Book Review: Ghost Girl
11 year old Zee lives in Knobbs Ferry, a small, sleepy (or comatose, if you listen to Zee) town, where nothing much happens. Her mother is dead, her sister Abby works double shifts at the local diner to pay their bills, while their father, who left a few months earlier, tries to find work upstate. […]
Book Review – The Gatekeeper of Pericael
But I hate the creepy spirits and this creepy place – Porter 12 year old Porter is Kotalla kan, the Gatekeeper’s son, currently in training to take his mother’s place as the Gatekeeper in due course, to guard the portal between Pericael and our world. An awesome responsibility, according to Porter’s mother, the grandchild of […]
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