Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death’s threshold to restore the balance.
Being responsible for the hopes of an entire town is a heavy burden, and the semi-final match is the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected.
A pregnant woman’s sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning.
A child’s picture of his home contains a dark secret message.
A sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments leads an amateur sleuth down a rabbithole that will reveal a horrifying reality..
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. The Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror. Then, when hope was long lost, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the most hellish prison.
Wrap up of my reading highlights this month! What book did you enjoy this month?
The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than a speck at the edge of the universe. Evacuating into a warship a plague soon breaks out, the fleets AI may be their enemy and nobody in charge is talking..
All the world, from Scirland to the farthest reaches of Eriga, know Isabella, Lady Trent, to be the world’s preeminent dragon naturalist. But before she became the illustrious figure we know today, there was a bookish young woman whose passion for learning, natural history, and, yes, dragons defied the stifling conventions of her day.
Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots.
One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild.
And all of them grow teeth.
Babel and its students are the world’s center for translation and, more importantly, magic. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland.
New books, book subscription and general life updates of travelling around Scotland. How is it half way through the year already?
