This book has grabbed me from the first word, and pulled me into the pages of its world, where New South Wales is no longer a beautiful city, but two worlds separated by a wall. I don’t know about anyone else, but this book made me cringe; a lot. It wasn’t gruesome or bloody, but [...]
I must confess to glancing at the contemporary, stylised ‘movie poster’ cover for Stasia Ward Kehoe’s Audition and dismissing it instantly. (Interestingly, I did the very same thing with Anna And The French Kiss- Stephanie Perkins, which thanks to Persnickety Snark, I later read and adored) Still unsure of what caught my attention and prompted [...]
I adore Laini Taylor’s work, her unerring ability to evoke such magic using mere words. Those same words become powerful tools indeed under her skilled hand… I have many words to use in a possible review for her lastest novel. Instead I will use only these 15… Ethereal, Magical, Enchanting, Breathtaking, Magnifique. READ IT, LOVE [...]
My entire life I have been entranced with all things Arthurian. This, as with my obsession for faerie tales, is due in no small part to the early influences of my Granny Annie and the books she read to me/placed in my hands when I was a child. I still remember vividly being curled at [...]
Today on The Book Gryffin…Guest reviewer Tegan is back with her thoughts on Maile Meloy’s wonderful novel, The Apothecary. Allow for the possibilities! Allowing for the possibilities is probably the most important thing you will need to do when reading this book! Its not everyday that you read a book where there is an elixir [...]
She has to escape. But who else is out there? And can anyone survive days like this? I want to go back to the days when life made sense. The days before our parents became strange; before the warming ate away at all the living things in the world; before The Committee and their Blacktroopers. [...]
I believe we live in possibly the most narcissistic age of human history. No generation has been photographed or filmed more than this one. We have cameras everywhere. On our phones, on our laptops, on our desktop computers and the truth of the matter is, our teens are so used to documenting everything they do on film, [...]
Adrian Stirling’s second novel, The Comet Box, is secretly a time machine. The very act of reading it will transport you instantly back to 1986. The sights, sounds and scents of a typical Australian summer are but a page turn away…except for one thing. Most of us (I hope) did not have the added emotional [...]
The latest and greatest of delightful and poignant offerings from legend Morris Gleitzman, does not, disappoint! (As if that is even possible!) I adored Too Small To Fail- Morris Gleitzman. The protagonist of this particular novel, like his predecessors, is endearing, adorable and utterly loveable. My arms still ache with the need to give this [...]
Have you ever been so drawn to someone, that even the knowledge that they will never love you as much as you love them, cannot deter you from being irrevocably drawn to them? The knowledge that the only possible result for you, will amount to a world of pain from which you might never recover, [...]
