Joo's Book Reviews and Interviews

As with Nick Spalding's other novels we have the "he said / she said" swapping forth of chapters.  I enjoy this method of gett...

Piper is the second book in the Jerrick series. In the first book, Michael has been spirited away / rescued from the Grand Inquisitors ...

Whilst Auto 2 follows Auto, it is more of a linear story as opposed to Auto 1's individual stories only tying-in in retrospect. Auto 2...

This is a shortish story by the Master of Macabre David Haynes, but it's back in his smoggy London that he evokes so well. Basil Jenki...

This person has made me a junkie.  A chocolate junkie.  But now I cannot have any old stuff, it has to be hand-made with love and a bit of s...

I was told this is one of the only books to show you how to easily make your own chocolate from raw ingredients.  I didn't really believ...

From reading the sample, I was hooked and wanted to read more. This is a great little story introducing us to the character of Abigail who ...

This is the second in the Felicity (Flick) Carter series of books, set in a post-apocalypse England where there's no technology, and mar...

The title of this story can be read in more than one way.  Oliva's father-in-law tells her what seems to be a confession, but since he h...

I started reading this story without a clue of the plot.  All I know is that I love this author's stories. This one starts with a murd...

Number 10 in the ongoing adventures of our faithful Pitkirtly gang has a bit of a mouthful for a title.  It does become obvious what it refe...

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 ...