A Belle in a Bookshop

Azarias Tor: The History Maker by Richard Abbott-Brailey ” Remember, whatever you do now, in the past, and in the future — timing is everything. “ What if there really is more to life? What if your life truly has a higher purpose? Most members […]

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.” Happy Summer! We get lots of reading done in the hot […]

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas ” Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don’t feel anything at all. ” Feyre knows nothing but survival. Since the financial collapse of her family’s fortune and livelihood, she has had […]

Alice : The Wanderland Chronicles by J.M. Sullivan ” ‘Rule number one: Always protect your queen.’ “ Alice Carroll is desperate. A plague has been sweeping her city for an incalculable amount of time and although she and her sister have been able to avoid […]

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon “ Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, ’til our Life shall be Done. ”  The Second World War is at […]

Dream Magic by Joshua Khan ” The six legendary princes who’d brought magic into the world and founded the great houses of magic. Her ancestors. Djinn, the master of fire. Coral, lord of the seas. Typhoon, ruler of the endless winds. Herne, the antler-headed sorcerer […]

The Music Maker Series – Inharmonic by A.K.R. Scott ” Nadja’s eyelids fell shut once more as his breath washed over her. The room spun, threatening her ability to remain standing. She slid one hand down across the hard plane of his chest. She could […]

Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire “ ‘I shall pray for your soul,’ promised Nessarose. ‘I shall wait for your shoes,’ Elphie answered. “ Most everyone has heard of the Tony Award-winning musical, Wicked. It is […]

The Alchemyst – The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott ” I am legend. Death has no claim over me, illness cannot touch me. Look at me now and it would be hard to put an age upon me, and yet I […]

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness ” It begins with absence and desire.  It begins with blood and fear.  It begins with a discovery of witches. “ I usually seem to have the luck to stumble upon serial books at the end,  when all of […]