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As White as Snow Review

Saturday, 28 February 2015

As White as Snow

Rating: 4/5

Buy or Borrow: Buy

Source: NetGalley (Released 5th March 2015)

Lumikki Andersson is backpacking in Prague, where the weather is scorching hot. A girl approaches her in a small café and claims to be her half-sister. Lumikki’s parents seem to be hiding a secret concerning the family’s past, so the girl’s claim rouses Lumikki’s interest. Despite her erratic behaviour, the girl manages to persuade Lumikki to join a religious family community. Lumikki gets acquainted with the streets and graveyards of Prague when she is forced to run for her life to prevent the tragedy. The religion of the cult is not pure; and innocence is not as white as snow.

Simon Cheshire Interview

Thursday, 26 February 2015

I had a chat with Simon Cheshire, the author of Flesh and Blood. I recently reviewed this book and it's set for release on 2nd March (or now if you download onto your Kindle).

A huge welcome from No Safer Place to Simon Cheshire.

Flesh and Blood Review

Saturday, 21 February 2015

Flesh and Blood

Rating: 5/5

Buy or Borrow: Buy

Source: NetGalley

Sam Hunter has grown up in a relatively poor household. When his family comes into some money and moves to an affluent town, he feels out of place in his new school and his new environment.

Sam now lives close to the imposing Bierce Priory. Its owners, the wealthy and influential Greenhills, are the town’s resident philanthropists and a case study in success.

Slowly, Sam uncovers the terrifying truth about the Greenhills and the town they live in. A truth so disturbing that Sam’s life becomes a living, freakish nightmare, in which he is forced to doubt his own sanity…

Half Wild

Rating: 5/5

Buy or Borrow: Buy

Source: Copy from publisher (released 26 March 2015)

After finally meeting his elusive father, Marcus, and receiving the three gifts that confirm his as a full adult witch, Nathan is still on the run. He needs to find his friend Gabriel and rescue Annalise, now a prisoner of the powerful Black Witch Mercury. Most of all he needs to learn how to control his Gift – a strange, wild new power that threatens to overwhelm him.

Meanwhile, Soul O’Brien has seized control of the Council of White Witches and is expanding his war against Black Witches into Europe. In response, an unprecedented alliance has formed between Black and White Witches determined to resist him. Drawn into the rebellion by the enigmatic Black Witch Van Dal, Nathan finds himself fighting alongside both old friends and old enemies. But can all the rebels be trusted, or is Nathan walking into a trap?

Half Bad Review

Friday, 20 February 2015

Half Bad

Rating: 5/5

Buy or Borrow: Buy

Source: Christmas Present

Half Bad by Sally Green is a breath-taking debut novel about one boy’s struggle for survival in a hidden society of witches.

You can’t read, can’t write, but you heal fast, even for a witch.

You get sick if you stay indoors after dark.

You hate White Witches but love Annalise, who is one.

You’ve been kept in a cage since you were fourteen.

All you’ve got to do is escape and find Mercury, the Black Witch who eats boys. And do that before your seventeenth birthday.

Easy.

City in Embers Review

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

City in Embers

Rating: 4/5

Buy or Borrow: Buy

Source: NetGalley (Copy from publisher)

Zoey Daniels has been tossed from foster home to foster home, where she grows up fast and tough. When she is placed in her “last-chance” home, she finds a reason to stay and turn her life around: her foster sister, Lexie, who is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. Zoey will do anything to keep her safe. After high school, Zoey is hired by a special government agency, the Department of Molecular Genetics (DMG), where she meets the other reason to remain: Daniel, her co-worker. The man she loves.

But there is something unique about Zoey. She can see fae. Because of this, the DMG hires her to work as a Collector: catching, researching, testing, and using the fae to save human lives. The work never registers on her sympathy radar. She was raised to think of fae as beasts that feed on humans and want to destroy them.

When devastation hits Seattle, Zoey's whole world is turned upside down. The electric storm connects her to a ruthless fae, a Wanderer named Ryker, whose dealings expose them to even more trouble and danger. They embark on a journey, running and hiding from both the government and fae, both of which threaten their lives and those they love.

Update

Friday, 13 February 2015

Hey! I'm sorry for the blog silence but I've just moved into a new flat and am currently waiting for my wi-fi to be sorted. I've got reviews ready for City in Embers, Half-Bad and Half-Wild. Expect them within the next couple of days and this blog will be back up and running as soon as I can!

Thanks for staying with me!

Zoe