“The great big universe was infinite and beckoning, and I was at the precipice, ready and willing to jump.” Being a teenager is hard. Being an young adult is harder because nobody and nothing can prepare you for all the experiences life will put you through. Being an young adult also means new responsibilities, freedom …
Review & Blog Tour: The Undying Tower by Melissa Welliver
Title: The Undying Tower Author: Melissa Welliver Publication date: 09 September, 2021 Age group: Young Adult Genres: SSF, Dystopian Synopsis: What if living forever was a death sentence? Decades after the discovery that a small percentage of the population has stopped ageing, theAvalonia Zone is in crisis. From overpopulation to food shortages, the ‘Undying’ have been blamed forthe state’s problems, …
Recipe for the Book – A Cuban’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor
Recipe for the Book – A Cuban’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor NameyFrom the Kitchen of The Urban Reader Ingredients: A Cuban girl, a grieving trifecta (loss of grandmother, boyfriend and best friend), one ticket to England, a cute English bloke, many flavours of tea. Flour, water, yeast, sugar, salt and all …
Review: Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket
Poison for Breakfast is such a delightful book! Well it’s odd to call it delightful if you consider that our author probably had poison for breakfast. But it’s delightful, well technically it’s bewildering. This is book about a mystery, it’s also about death, it’s even about philosophy, but mainly it’s about bewilderment. Poison for Breakfast …
Review: Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
Ariadne is the story about a righteous man. No. It’s about many righteous men. It’s about how in the wake of these righteous men and heroes it is the women who suffer the consequences silently. It is also a story which brings to light the many women who have either been sidelined or have been …
Review: Second Place by Rachel Cusk
“… my individuality had tormented me my whole life with its demand to be recognised.” Second Place is a rewriting of Mabel Dodge Luhan’s memoir “Lorenzo in Taos”, which talks about the time D. H. Lawrence came to stay with her in Taos, New Mexico. The story is about our protagonist M who invites L …
Review: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
This story is about a lot of things, but mostly idiots. I specifically am thinking about the idiot who happens to be the guy who was supposed to pack for me an undamaged book or maybe the idiot is the Amazon delivery guy who damaged the book during transportation. You see when this book was …
Review & Blog Tour: Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
Shiori, the only princess of Kiata, has a secret. Forbidden magic runs through her veins. Normally she conceals it well, but on the morning of her betrothal ceremony, Shiori loses control. At first, her mistake seems like a stroke of luck, forestalling the wedding she never wanted, but it also catches the attention of Raikama, her stepmother.
Raikama has dark magic of her own, and she banishes the young princess, turning her brothers into cranes, and warning Shiori that she must speak of it to no one: for with every word that escapes her lips, one of her brothers will die. Penniless, voiceless, and alone, Shiori searches for her brothers, and, on her journey, uncovers a conspiracy to overtake the throne—a conspiracy more twisted and deceitful, more cunning and complex, than even Raikama’s betrayal. Only Shiori can set the kingdom to rights, but to do so she must place her trust in the very boy she fought so hard not to marry. And she must embrace the magic she’s been taught all her life to contain—no matter what it costs her.
Review: Animal by Lisa Taddeo
Title: Animal Author: Lisa Taddeo Publisher: Bloomsbury India Publication date: 28 June 2021 Age group: Adult Genres: Thriller, Contemporary Fiction Synopsis: Honestly, sometimes I think it’s the only recourse. Killing men in times like these . Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruel acts of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, …
Review and Blog Tour: The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
Title: The Jasmine Throne Author: Tasha Suri Publisher: Orbit Books Publication date: 08 June 2021 Cover art: Micah Epstein (illustrator), Lauren Panepinto (designer) Age group: Adult Genres: Fantasy Synopsis: Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once the source of the powerful, magical …