Joo's Book Reviews and Interviews

Bad and Badder is a collection of 5 short stories with the theme of badness.   They are all different and, in my opinion, all great self-con...

This, apparently is the first in a new series from Derek Landy.  I enjoyed the first of the Skulduggery Pleasant series, but this one is aim...

No Time Like the Past is Jodi Taylor's 5th book in the St Mary's series.  This time Max and the team are in a "quieter" pe...

This is a book of two very different halves.  The first half is Caitlin's story.  She starts at college and meets a guy Steven.  They st...

I'm on holidays and fancied a bit of a bonkbuster, so I started this one.  As it happens, this is not a bonkbuster, it's a story of ...

Having adored both Clovenhoof and Pigeonwings I thought I might miss Jeremy.  As it happens I didn't.  The "Godsquad" were alm...

This is the fourth story in the St Mary's Chronicles and has to advance the story from the catastrophic ending of book 3.  I'm not s...

This is the sequel to Alloria, the tale of Alloria finding out she is the first wizard's daughter.  They think they have vanquished the ...

Tom Gray has settled down with his wife and child and is just running the company now.  He sends people out to train up foreign armies, but ...

Eddie Collins the SOCO guy is back.  This time he's investigating a murder that might just go back a long way. I do like a good murder...

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...