I am not sure how Maggie Stiefvater does it but every time I read one of her books I fall a little bit more in love with her writing. To say that I enjoyed The Raven Boys would be a gross understatement. I absolutely loved every minute of it and was so disappointed when I got to the end (and so relieved that I waited until the second book The […]
The Devil’s Reprise is the eagerly anticipated sequel to The Devil’s Metal, a book which managed to both thrill me and chill me to my very core; the blending of scares and emotional gut-punches making it one of my favourite reads of this year. I have been anxiously awaiting the release of The Devil’s Reprise with some trepidation – I loved the first book so much I feared it would never live up to […]
I really didn’t expect to enjoy this novella very much as Sophie has never been a character I have particularly taken to. She has always appeared to be an archetypal ‘mean girl’, with little or no redeeming features. Her antagonistic relationship with her cousin Kaylee has never endeared her to me. However, I had to read this given what a huge fan of this series I have become. I am […]
When I found out there was a novella about Tod I knew I had to get my hands on it. This novella used to be quite easy to find but as it was out a few years ago it isn’t online anymore. Luckily I managed to track down a copy in Soul Screamers Volume 2 (yes I bought this even though I already owned My Soul to Keep and My Soul to Steal – that is […]
My Soul to Lose was a nice little introduction to the Soul Screamers series (even though I read this after finishing the main series). It is not a requirement to read this novella prior to reading the first book but it does set the tone for the series and answers a few questions which were never really fully explained in the books. It describes what happened to Kaylee when she was first overwhelmed […]