Joo's Book Reviews and Interviews

This is an epic tale of the Morley family owning and living on a sugar cane plantation in 18th century Jamaica. The story starts when Char...

Amber Fox is back and I'm happy to read a new story, even if it is just a shorter filler. It is Christmas Eve and St Nicholas' bone...

I wasn't quite sure what this book was about before I started and it starts off quietly enough.  Talon is a man who wants to cure cancer...

Lucy starts her life in early 19th Century Eastern England in a good home as her mother is a maid to a well-to-do family, but they have to l...

A Gathering of Ghosts is a collection of short stories.  David Haynes has moved from his macabre stories and delves into the world of ghost ...

Ethan Burke arrives in the town of Wayward Pines but things aren't quite as they should be.  He tries to get out, to contact his family,...

I adore Cecilia Peartree's Pitkirtly mysteries and the author herself had said this early story is "not a Pitkirtly", so it la...

Without a Hitch is almost two books for the price of one.  It's kind of like an episode of Law and Order where the first bit is the Law ...

The No-Kids Club is thought up by Clare when she couldn't get a decent conversation with her friends without them going on and on about ...

Meet Tim Arnot.  You'll find him hanging out after the apocalypse. How do you strike the balance between writing something you wan...

FAG is the story of life in an 1930s English boys boarding school.  It is an unsettling read of bullying, intolerance and non-acceptance. ...

Katherine Roberts is the author of children's fantasy stories. How do you strike the balance between writing something you want to ...

This is a story of many parts.  It starts off with Molly and Abel finding themselves to be true soul mates, but life for Molly is short.  Ex...

The Sword of Ages is the fourth instalment in The Time Hunters series.  This time Becky, Joe and Uncle Percy are on the trail of a sword in ...

Katie Stewart not only writes imaginative books, but also designs magical covers How do you strike the balance between writing somethi...

This is a silly story about the ludicrousness of office life.  Kind of. Clive and Sam are mates, who met when they started working togethe...

Look Behind You is a departure from the normal Sibel Hodge fare of sassy chick-lit.  This one is a psychological thriller that is much deepe...

Madrick, Tung and Michael, two wizards and one computer wizard, are back for the third part of the trilogy. As soon as I settled down to r...

This is the sequel to the fantastic Clovenhoof, but this time Jeremy aka Clovenhoof, aka Satan is joined by the Archangel Michael.  Michael,...

Venetia comes across a photo of her grandfather and recalls his tales of the shop in the village of Bumpkinton he worked in when he was a yo...