Book Number Two :)

It just got better, There are Goblins and frog people and dogs that wont get off horses and all these jewels that people want. Brand is now "The Wielder of Ambros". Well let me tell you that Ambros is an axe with a difference, Its alive. The wizard in this story sounds a little like Gandalf only better, He wields "Vaul", The green jewel in control of everything green and believe me that jewel would do well in my garden, I kill everything green.
 Then there is "Lavatis" the Blue jewel, This makes The Rainbow, Rainbows are pretty you think? Not this one, Its a giant Rainbow with legs and arms and a head and it goes round bashing bad people., And then theres "Osang" The Lavender jewel  that makes you sneaky, It prevents sound and sight. The others haven't been explained yet,
 Have some Blurb, On me. 
the Pact that has kept the peace for centuries between humanity and the Faerie is broken. Oberon, King of the Faerie, lost his Sky Jewel and can no longer command the marching Rainbow to keep the peace. Once again the darkest and most evil of his kind plague human lands. In defense of the Haven, a champion must be chosen to wield the Axe Ambros. A magical weapon powered by the legendary Amber Jewel, the eye of a long dead golden dragon, the Axe is difficult to master.
Bit of a sorry Blurb innit. 
 Trust me when I say you gotta read these books, I have just started the third one and its got me hooked already :)
 
Enjoy :)

B. V. Larson Is Now The Best

Well now. What can I say. Fab fab fab. 
 Amber Magic is the fist book in five lovely smashing beatifully written books. This is quite a short book but I was quite taken with it, Enough so that I purchased the other four as well :)
 Now, It smacks slightly of The Lord of the Rings, BUT, they are my favorite books of all time aside from Narnia.
 It even has Shade in Amber Magic, Now then, You will want a bit of bumf so here ya go:-
 The humans have no magic and are hunted for sport, but that is about to change. War is coming...

The Sun Dragon spawned nine lesser dragons which devoured their parent for the power the elder possessed. These young dragons fought for choice bits of the Sun Dragon, but each only managed to eat a portion, thus giving them specific powers. Over time, these foul dragons were hunted down and slain by heroes of old. When each body rotted away, nothing was left save for a Jewel—the lens of each dragon’s left eye. These Nine Eyes, or Jewels, form the basis for all magic in the world.
Ooooo yummy. The dragon Stone books (not that I have read them all yet) sound just divine. And the first one was just that, I couldnt put it down. Here is my little take on things so far.
 Now then, There was a pact between the Fearie and the River Folk (Or humans if you prefer) and the deal was that the River Folk gives one in seven of all their yearly harvest to the greedy Fearie people, (This is the Offering) And in return the Fearie wont play tricks, Now by tricks I mean really mean ones, Such as putting Changelings in place of new born babes so they can have an easy life of free food and warm baths and such for the rest of their lives, Its not mentioned where the new borns are sent but there is a mention of them being hidden away forever with no one to care for them.
 Anywho the pact is now broken (oops) and the Fearie lord has been overthrown because the rest of the Fearie quite like their tricks (obviously) another part of the deal was that the Fearie would keep out the other nasties from the River Folks dwellings. Well thats stopped hasnt it? Now there is this young River boy called Brand and he has been dragged into this head first and the poor mite hasnt got the foggiest about what is going on and has to fight all these little nasties, (just like poor Frodo Baggins eh) But who cares I mean the story is fabulous, And I had a really hard time putting my Kindle down, But seriously you HAVE to get this book, It should be law that you get this book. 
 I dont know if the others will be as short as this one but the first ones usually are quite short, Im assuming that the others will be longer, Its hard to judge on a Kindle to be honest cos there isnt really page numbers, Its just a percent of what you have already read. 
 Anyway, Prices are :-
 Kindle £0.71
There are no other prices available for paperback or hardback so I am not sure if you can buy this on anything but the Kindle. Sorry. Have a look round and let me know.

Enjoy :)

It Got Good

This is the first book I read when I bought my lovely Kindle way back in Feb, 
 Its called "Room" by Emma Donoghue. A friend of mine told me about this book and I remember my partner telling me he had looked at it in WaterStones, At first I thought it sounded like one of those true story thingies that I hate so much. I was wrong. So here is a little blurb about it:-
It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside . . . Told in Jack's voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.
 The story was really quite touching in some places and the little lad sounds lush, A typical five year old boy, But not quite, Can you imagine being shut away from the world not even knowing that it exists? I cant, But this book gives you an idea what it could be like......
 Quite a heart rending story and I really recommend you try it.
 Kindle price is £2.79. Paperback is £3.99. Hardback is £7.19. Please remember that I give the prices from Amazons list only. You can check out WaterStones or Orricks but I doubt you will find the books I review cheaper anywhere else.

Enjoy :) 

Bad Endings

 If there is anything in this world that annoys me and makes me want to beat something to a nasty little pulp, Its got to be people who pick their feet and bad endings in a book/film.
 I mean come ON people. You take all that time and effort to write a really good book then get bored at the end and think "well the reader wont know what happened but Hell I cant be arsed with this book anymore and my dead line is gaining fast" PFFT. You take a fantastic writer, Take one, Any will do, You have a fantastic story line, Terrific hero, Fabulous monsters, you go the the entire story keeping the reader completley enthralled to the very very end, And on the last page what do they do? They have the hero throw a sodding pig or something equally as pathetic at the monster and it vanishes into thin air never to be seen again and some silly girl falls at his feet promising him 67 kids and a house with a white picket fence and a golden lab. Yeah??? NOOOOO!!! Its irritating people, Not to mention the fact that because the ending is terrible you cant stop bloody thinking about it for weeks. 
  Well, I have just finished a book like that. The hero didnt throw a pig at the monster but he may as well have in my humble opinion. I am not saying that I could write a book any better but please, It cant be that hard to think of a good ending after writing the whole thing in the first place.
 Rant over and I am not telling you which book it is either. Cos you will be expecting a bad ending and flicking through to the last page just to find out. 
 Arnt I wicked :) hehe

 

Gratitude is fun :)

I would love to thank my very good friend Tanya for plugging my blog on her blog :) You are a honey. 
 So in return Im plugging hers. If you love art of any kind and we all know books are art as well, Take a look at Tanyas blog, Her art is amazing and I would be very blessed to own a piece of her work, Tanya does graphics work and its truely fantastic. From Little Red Riding Hood to images that just pop into her mind, I would love to have a look in her head to see the things that she sees. Just take a look and see, I love it and I am sure you all will too, If you like her work please follow her Blog. 

http://harrietsimaginations.blogspot.com/

The Red Church............And Other stuff

Well Spring is almost here and what have I been doing? Spring Cleaning. Pfft, I did my little boys room yesterday and Oh My God it was horrific, 5 bin liners later full of broken toys old baby toys, jigsaws with pieces missing, Games that no longer work, Old clothes that no longer fit all went to the tip. His room is now sparkly clean, I have just washed all the windows and even the front door got a taste of my Spring Cleaning Wrath. The washing is in the washer and the dogs hiding from all the water, (He will be found). 
 Anyways, The Red Church by Scott Nicholson. Im maybe one third of the way through this book and its goin good so far, The basic blurb on the back is :
For 13-year-old Ronnie Day, life is full of problems: Mom and Dad have separated, his brother Tim is a constant pest, Melanie Ward either loves him or hates him, and Jesus Christ won't stay in his heart. Plus he has to walk past the red church every day, where the Bell Monster hides with its wings and claws and livers for eyes. But the biggest problem is that Archer McFall is the new preacher at the church, and Mom wants Ronnie to attend midnight services with her.

Sheriff Frank Littlefield hates the red church for a different reason. His little brother died in a freak accident at the church twenty years ago, and now Frank is starting to see his brother's ghost. And the ghost keeps demanding, "Free me." People are dying in Whispering Pines, and the murders coincide with McFall's return.

The Days, the Littlefields, and the McFalls are descendants of the original families that settled the rural Appalachian community. Those old families share a secret of betrayal and guilt, and McFall wants his congregation to prove its faith. Because he believes he is the Second Son of God, and that the cleansing of sin must be done in blood.
 Well I can tell you that from what I have read so far its not just the McFall family that are the Village oddities, The whole bloody Village is as mad as a sack full of owls. Bloody barmy the lot of them, With the exception of Detective Sheila Storie. She seems to have a tight grip on reality, (For now). Lets see how long that lasts. And you can just tell that poor little Ronnie Day or his little brother Tim Day are gonna get sacrificed at some point, Or someone is gonna try damned hard, Im not giving anything away by the way as I havnt even got that far myself yet. 
 This seems to only be available on the Kindle but Im sure you can find it in paperback somewhere in the world. £2.15 for Kindle edition


Enjoy :)

Back to school for me :)

I have been meaning to do it for soooo long now. I have just enrolled on a course. O.K so its not exactly school but I got the courage to just do it. Its an eight week course for Indian Head Massage. Its a start eh? I really cant wait to get stuck in. And its a cheap course as well. £45.60 for 8 weeks, Every Tuesday evening 7pm til 9pm. The only thing Im gonna struggle with I think is gettin care for my Son every Tuesday evening. But I will work something out. Next course hopefuly will be a Reflexology course then Aromatherapy. Will need to save a little but hey its what I want to do.
 No book review today as I am way too excited about my course haha. And Im still reading "48". Which I read until half 11 last night. It has me hooked.

 Things are working out just as I want them. Who's up for me practicing on them? :)

Its Catching

Well, Over the weekend my little boy had a bug. The 24 hour kind that makes you sick as a dog, Or the other which is just as nasty, Anywho I caught it and was sick as a pig all day yesterday, So no reading or anything for me :(.
 But I have been reading a fabulous book called "48" by James Herbert, Here is the blurb from the back. In 1945, Hitler unleashes the Blood Death on Britain as his final act of vengeance. Hoke, an American pilot and one of a tiny minority with a rare blood group unaffected by the deadly disease, has survived alone among the debris and the dead of London for three years. Now, in 1948, a slow-dying group of Fascist Blackshirts believe their only hope is a transfusion of blood from one of Hoke’s kind. Ever more desperate as their deaths approach, they’re after his blood. Oh thrilling. And up to now, its gripping. Now Im not really one for books ar films about the war but it seems that the war is over in this one from what I have read so far, BUT, The animosity between English Yanks and Germans is still there, At least it is where Hoke is concerned. The only blood group that is immune is AB negative, And the people after him think (Heavens knows why) that by taking these few people and draining their blood for a quick blood transfusion will cure them. PAH. Everyone knows (dont they?) that you need to be the same group to have a transfusion. But hey this fella that wants their blood (literally) obviously never took biology in school. (lets hope he catches on fast eh). And it seems that animals are immune too as Hoke has a lil doggy called Cagney. Aww. 
 For Kindle this is £3.99. For hard cover its £11.99 and paperback is £4.45. 
 If you like this sort of thing, Which seems to me to be a cross between the aftermath of war and a Zombie wotsit, Then please get it as I am hooked and its not even my kinda book. Hows that for ya? :) 
  Definatly a must read.

 Enjoy :) 

The Colorado Kid. By Stephen King

Nom at this book. Stephen King is one of my personal faves. I love the man. I like the way he writes, Though some of his endings leave a lot to be desiredm Such as the ending of Black House. Fab book but left me wanting at the end. 
 Now The Colorado Kid? Where do I start?
 It is a selection of short stories, The leading one being The Colorado Kid itself. Set in Maine as is the norm, A young journalist named Stephanie asks her mentors and employers if anything strange and unexplainable has ever happened, Well if you ask me, Asking that question in one of Stephen King's books is just plain silly, Like the answer is going to be "NO" hahahaha.
 Anyway. Stephies employers begin the story of the Colorado kid. Without giving away the story, Its enthralling. A must read and not just for that story, If I remember rightly there are around four or five short stories in this book. 
 Now this will cost you £2.87 on your Kindle, For mass market paperback (used) £1.97. And for hard back (take a deep breath now.........£22.00. STEEP. But worth it. I tend to go to tiny little dusty book stores if I can find one, If not I put up with the bustle in Waterstones. The prices listed on here are Amazon prices. You may be able to find it cheaper somewhere else, But I am here to review books for fun and for other peoples pleasure. I aint doin your leg work :) 

 Enjoy :)

Books

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/17486 This book is fast paced and full of adventure. Its funny in places which really lightens the mood of story. Its free if you buy the edition for the Kindle. I have a Kindle and personally think everyone should own one. BUT and its a big but, It will never replace books. Even though I have one there is still nothing better than opening a brand new book.

 As I say if you have a Kindle this book is free. (Bonus). If not the paperback is available for £11.37p. Big difference eh haha.

 It follows the story of a girl named Faela, A Tereskan mind healer, The first of her kind in generations, Who fled her home pregnant and terrified, Outcast by her order she seeks for a legend that might be her only chance to make things right.

 A fantastic read for anyone. I have just finished reading this one myself and keep trying to find out when the second book is released. With no luck, But there is going to be one. There has to be haha.

Enjoy

Greetings and salutaions

Good day to you all.
 First I would like to tell you what this blog is about. Mainly Books. Any Books. I will review them. Just for fun really. Because I love them.
 My son said to me the other day "you and Daddy are very greedy because you have too many books" I laughed a little and said, Greed doesnt work like that with books. You can want too much money, Thats greedy, Or eat too much, Greed, You can want things or buy things that you really dont need, Waste your money on invalubale things, But not with books, You can never have too many books. They are like little worlds you can enter when ever you feel like it. Another world where you can watch someone elses life and adventures unfold before your eyes. Littl fantasy worlds full of magic and good (or bad) whatever, Tiny places to visit when you need a pick me up. Watch as a vampire feeds or a wanderer finds his place in the world, Where treasures are found (and lost). Where people find "the one". 
 Where Monsters live and Witches dwell. Where people kiss and everything is wonderful. Where people are poor but couldnt care less because they have each other. My son listened and smiled and said "Mummy you are so clever, And I like books" He is five and my life. I wish for him to have the same veiws on books that me and his Dad do. He already loves his "bedtime story" and he doesnt mind what its about. His favourite book is called "The Robot and the Bluebird" by David Lucas. 
 Its all about a robot who's heart breaks and he goes to have it mended, The people cant fix it so he ends up on the tip with all the other broken robots, He tries to talk to them, He says "my heart got broke and they cant fix it" but no one listens on the tip so he stops talking and moving, He gets all rusted. Then one very cold wintery day a bluebird lands on him, She is very tired and cold and she makes a nest in the robot where his heart used to be, The robot can feel her flutter about in there and he feels like he has a heart beat again. The next morning the blue bird says that she is too tired to fly on to the warm country and would surely die if she flew any further in this cold weather. So the robot agrees to take her himself. He gets stiffly up and starts to walk slowly with the bluebird in his heart. Even though he is slow he feels like he is soaring because of the feeling of the little bird where his heart was. He walks over cold mountains through alsorts of weather. Just as he was about to stop working altogether he reaches where the bluebird needs to be. The end of the story is both sad and happy, The robot still stands in the same spot, He doesnt move anymore or speak, But every year birds come from all over the world to make nests in the space where his heart used to be. And though he cant move it makes him very happy.