REVIEW: The Cuckoo's Calling (#1) - Robert Galbraith

The Cuckoo's Calling (#1) - Robert Galbraith
Series: Cormoron Strike
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Robert Glenister
Time: 15hrs 53mins
Rating: ★★★★

Goodreads Blurb

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.

Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.

REVIEW: The Line (#1) - J. D. Horn

The Line (#1) - J. D. Horn
Series: Witching Savannah
Publisher:  Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Shannon McManus
Time: 9hrs 6mins
Rating: ★★★★★ (It was Amazing)

Goodreads Blurb

To the uninitiated, Savannah shows only her bright face and genteel manner. Those who know her well, though, can see beyond her colonial trappings and small-city charm to a world where witchcraft is respected, Hoodoo is feared, and spirits linger. Mercy Taylor is all too familiar with the supernatural side of Savannah, being a member of the most powerful family of witches in the South.
Despite being powerless herself, of course.

Having grown up without magic of her own, in the shadow of her talented and charismatic twin sister, Mercy has always thought herself content. But when a series of mishaps—culminating in the death of the Taylor matriarch—leaves a vacuum in the mystical underpinnings of Savannah, she finds herself thrust into a mystery that could shake her family apart…and unleash a darkness the line of Taylor witches has been keeping at bay for generations.

REVIEW: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Format: Paperback
Pages: 61 Pages
Rating: ★★

Goodreads Blurb

Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher, came to Tarry Town in the glen of Sleepy Hollow to ply his trade in educating young minds. He was a gullible and excitable fellow, often so terrified by locals' stories of ghosts that he would hurry through the woods on his way home, singing to keep from hysterics. Among these stories was the legend of the Galloping Hessian, the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow.

REVIEW: Flesh and Blood (#4) - Simon Cheshire

Flesh and Blood (#4) - Simon Cheshire
Series: Red Eye
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336 Pages
Rating: ★★★★

Goodreads Blurb

I must record the facts that have led me to where I am now. So that, when someone reads this, they understand. Sam Hunter's neighbours are pillars of the community, the most influential people in town. But they're liars too. The Greenhills are hiding something and Sam's determined to find out what it is. As his investigation unfolds, he realizes the lies reach further than he ever imagined - is there anyone he can trust? Uncovering the horror is one thing ...escaping is another.

REVIEW: Midnight Alley (#3) - Rachel Caine

Midnight Alley (#3) - Rachel Caine
Series: Morganville Vampires
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Format: Paperback
Pages: 365 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★ (It was Amazing)

Goodreads Blurb

When Claire Danvers learnt that her college town was run by vampires, she did what any intelligent, self-preserving student would do: she applied for a transfer and stocked up on garlic. The transfer is no longer an option, but the garlic may come in handy.
Now Claire has pledged herself to Amelie, the most powerful vampire in town. The protection her contract secures does little to reassure her friends. All of a sudden people are turning up dead, a stalker resurfaces from Claire's past, and an ancient bloodsucker extends a chilling invitation for private lessons in his secluded home.

REVIEW: Trial by Fire (#1) - Josephine Angelini

Trial by Fire (#1) - Josephine Angelini
Series: Worldwalker
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★ (It was Amazing)

Goodreads Blurb

This world is trying to kill Lily Proctor. Her life-threatening allergies keep her from enjoying experiences that others in her hometown of Salem take for granted, which is why she is determined to enjoy her first high school party with her best friend and longtime crush, Tristan. But after a humiliating incident in front of half her graduating class, Lily wishes she could just disappear.

Suddenly, Lily is in a different Salem—one overrun with horrifying creatures and ruled by powerful women called Crucibles. Strongest and cruelest of them all is Lillian . . . Lily's other self in this alternate universe.

What makes Lily weak at home is what makes her extraordinary in New Salem. In this confusing world, Lily is torn between responsibilities she can't hope to shoulder alone and a love she never expected.

REVIEW: Bad Bones (#3) - Graham Marks

Bad Bones (#3)- Graham Marks
Series: Red Eye
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336 Pages
Rating: ★★★ (Liked It)

Goodreads Blurb

Some things are best left buried. Gabe is feeling the pressure. His family has money troubles, he's hardly talking to his dad, plus lowlife Benny is on his case. Needing some space to think, he heads off into the hills surrounding LA. And he suddenly stumbles across a secret that will change everything. A shallow grave. Gabe doesn't think twice about taking the gold bracelet he finds buried there. Even from the clutches of skeletal hands. But he has no idea what he's awakening

REVIEW: The Dead Girls' Dance (#2) - Rachel Caine

The Dead Girls' Dance (#2) - Rachel Caine
Series: Morganville Vampires
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Format: Paperback
Pages: 380 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★

Goodreads Blurb

Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favours beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance, hell is really going to break loose.

REVIEW: Rivers of London (#1) - Ben Aaronovitch

Rivers of London (#1) - Ben Aaronovitch
Series: Peter Grant
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Kindle
Pages: 432 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★ (It Was Amazing)

Goodreads Blurb

My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluble, and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England.

REVIEW: Glass Houses (#1) - Rachel Caine

Glass Houses (#1) - Rachel Caine
Series: Morganville Vampires
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Format: Paperback
Pages: 348 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★ (It Was Amazing)

Goodreads Blurb

College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life, but they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Will she be able to face the town's terror or will she drown like everyone else?

REVIEW: The Dark Day's Club (#1) - Alison Goodman

The Dark Day's Club (#1) - Alison Goodman
Series: Lady Helen
Publisher: Walker Books
Format: Kindle
Pages: 496 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★ (It was Amazing)

Goodreads Blurb

London, April 1812. On the eve of eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall’s presentation to the queen, one of her family’s housemaids disappears-and Helen is drawn into the shadows of Regency London. There, she meets Lord Carlston, one of the few who can stop the perpetrators: a cabal of demons infiltrating every level of society. Dare she ask for his help, when his reputation is almost as black as his lingering eyes? And will her intelligence and headstrong curiosity wind up leading them into a death trap?

Sleepless (#2) - Lou Morgan

Sleepless (#2) - Lou Morgan
Series: Red Eye
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352 Pages
Rating: ★★ (It was OK)

Goodreads Blurb

Young, rich and good-looking, Izzy and her friends lead seemingly perfect lives. But exams are looming and at a school like Clerkenwell, failure is not an option. Luckily, Tigs has a solution. A small pill that will make revision a breeze and help them get the results they need. Desperate to succeed, the group begin taking the study drug. It doesn't take long before they realize there are far worse things than failing a few exams.

Frozen Charlotte (#1) - Alex Bell

Frozen Charlotte (#1) - Alex Bell
Series: Red Eye
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368 Pages
Rating: ★★★★★

Goodreads Blurb

We're waiting for you to come and play. Dunvegan School for Girls has been closed for many years. Converted into a family home, the teachers and students are long gone. But they left something behind...Sophie arrives at the old schoolhouse to spend the summer with her cousins. Brooding Cameron with his scarred hand, strange Lilias with a fear of bones and Piper, who seems just a bit too good to be true. And then there's her other cousin. The girl with a room full of antique dolls. The girl that shouldn't be there. The girl that died.