Heartsong was the book I never knew I needed. I love the Green Creek series, starting with Wolfsong and continuing with Ravensong. Ox and Gordo’s stories felt necessary and right as they both played such a huge role in the series as it was developing. Robbie, as much as I liked him, always felt more like a periphery character to me. Same with Kelly. So colour me surprised when I […]
This book isn’t as easy to read (or review, for that matter) as Wolfsong. Gordo Livinstone is the narrator for this one and he definitely is harder to love than Ox (yet I love him all the same!) Gordo is a prickly character, grumpy and pretty closed off. He has good reason for it but it does make it harder to be in his headspace. Gordo also has a connection […]
I first read Wolfsong by T.J. Klune a couple of years back. It wasn’t my first by the author (that would be Bear, Otter and the Kid – his debut) but it was the one that really spoke to me on a deeper level. No knock on BOATK (it’s a great book and if you haven’t read it yet please do so at your earliest opportunity) but I tend to […]
I admit, the very first thing that drew this book to me was the gloriously creepy cover. However, the synopsis also had me pretty much convinced too! Any book about Norse mythology is always going to catch my attention. The fact that it set in a modern setting is just icing on the cake! my review of the twisted tree The story is about a young girl called Martha who […]
I absolutely adored Storm. I had seen many glowing, overwhelmingly positive reviews for this series but for some reason had never gotten around to reading it even though it looked like something I would really enjoy (I am a sucker for a good paranormal tale with well-drawn, intriguing characters). I stumbled across the first book and on a whim decided to purchase and read it. I wondered if it would live […]