Joo's Book Reviews and Interviews

Nicola Palmer writes children's books.  I like reading Nicola Palmer's stories.  I'm not a (young) child. Again, this is a fab...

We get James Bond's side of the story, The Saint's, Bourne's, Austin Powers' too.  But what about the bad guy?  What's h...

Vegas, Lies and Murder is the fifth book in the Amber Fox series.  This time Amber and her fiance Brad are off to Las Vegas to get married. ...

Sleep Tight is the 3rd in the DCI Tom Douglas series, however Tom's life plays a secondary part in this and it's not important that ...

I like a bit of silly and this was certainly a bit of silly. An inexperienced wizard is employed to cast a spell to help the fishermen catc...

The Lost City is the fifth and final installment in the wonderful Time Hunters series.  Becky, her brother Joe and Uncle Percy, the time tra...

This is the ninth in the Pitkirtly series and is probably my favourite so far. Amaryllis has put herself forward for being a councillor, b...

The third in the Chronicles of St Mary's series gets even darker.  Whilst these books are mostly light and witty and exciting, people do...

I found it hard to pigeon hole this book into a genre.  On the surface it's a paranormal/supernatural story, but only a little bit.  It ...

I didn't fancy the third in this series but jumped straight to the fourth as this storyline looked more my thing.  As with the others in...

Max Bloom is back and this time he's had a year to hone his powers and he's the most powerful wordsmith in the land, but certainly n...

Now my review for Book 2 in this series stated I wasn't as impressed with it as I was with the fantastic first book, so I'm glad to ...

In the future, life has fallen apart and it's bad out on the streets.  There's no electricity and the people that are left in the ci...

This is the story of 15 days in 12-year-old Gerald's post-war summer holidays when he finds a caterpillar and forms a bond with it. I ...

I'd ignored this book for some time as "post apocalypse dystopian books are not my thing", but once I started reading it, it w...

Adnan, a bookshop owner in Baghdad finds an old book in his store and starts reading it.  But once he's started, he just can't stop,...

This is the third story featuring Gavin Shawlens, a biochemist who gets caught up in bad guys plans for world domination in the previous two...

Top Banana is a world away from this authors previous books.  It is a light slightly comedic gentle look at Steve's life from under his ...

Any book about a young boy going off to a special school with a bit of magic will inevitably be compared to Harry Potter.  I've not read...

In the near future a spaceship sets off to Mars, its 6 person crew made up of more mature members.  They are all capable of doing each other...