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Review: Booked by Kwame Alexander

Published: 2016 Pages: 314 Synopsis: “Like lightning You strike Fast and free Legs zoom Down field Eyes fixed On the chequered ball On...

Russell The Bookworm

Apr 12, 20172 min read

Review: Ghost Moth by Michele Forbes

Published: August 2014 Synopsis: “GHOST MOTH will transport you to two hot summers, 20 years apart. Northern Ireland, 1949. Katherine...

Russell The Bookworm

Mar 16, 20172 min read

Review: Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

Published: April 2014 Pages: 452 Synopsis: “I didn't ask for any of this. I didn't ask to be some kind of hero. But when your whole life...

Russell The Bookworm

Mar 16, 20172 min read

Review: Dragonsoul by Kayl Karadjian

Published: October 2016 Pages: 277 Synopsis: “Littlehorn is the last dragon, born into a world that wants him dead. The dragon's blue...

Russell The Bookworm

Mar 9, 20172 min read

Review: Bender by Alexander Rigby

Published: November 2016 Pages: 322 Synopsis: “Two souls. Four love stories. Ancient Egypt. Renaissance Italy. 1980s Pittsburgh....

Mar 6, 20171 min read

Review: The Edge of the Cemetery by Margaret Millmore

Published: May 2016 Synopsis: “When San Francisco and the surrounding area are suddenly plagued by rogue groups of ghosts and demons, who...

Russell The Bookworm

Mar 6, 20172 min read

Review: The Senator's Youngest Daughter by Kelley Rose Waller

Published: October 2016 Pages: 313 Synopsis: “Senator A.C. McFerren has been missing for more than six months. The obvious prime suspect...

Russell The Bookworm

Feb 28, 20171 min read

Review: Devil in the Countryside by Cory Barclay

Published: January 2017 Pages: 348 Synopsis: “Devil in the Countryside is a story about the most famous werewolf investigation in...

Russell The Bookworm

Feb 14, 20172 min read

Review: How I Found You by Gabriella Lepore

Published: October 2015 Pages: 332 Synopsis: “Sixteen-year-old Rose arrives at sleepy, remote Millwood expecting to spend a quiet summer...

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Feb 13, 20171 min read

Review: Crush by Eve Ainsworth

Published: May 2016 Pages: 288 Synopsis: “Love hurts ... but should it hurt this much? Reeling from her mum's sudden departure, Anna...

Russell The Bookworm

Feb 12, 20172 min read

Review: ZK20 Chronicles of a Survivor by Adam Wieland

Published: September 2016 Pages: 273 Synopsis: “In the first instalment of the ZK20 series Adam is separated from his friends; when while...

Russell The Bookworm

Feb 8, 20171 min read

Review: The NecroNomNomNomicon: Cookbook of the Dead by Felix Galvan

Published: June 2015 Synopsis: “The Harrison family is dragged into the bizarre world of the supernatural as they become the pawns of the...

Russell The Bookworm

Feb 7, 20171 min read

Ifechidere by Chinedu Enechi

Published: November 2016 Synopsis: “The loss of both her parents, even before she is old enough to speak, appears to pre-determine...

Russell The Bookworm

Feb 1, 20171 min read

Review: By All Means Must We Fly by W and W Sawday

Published: January 2017 Pages: 278 Synopsis: “One evening after rehearsals, Jimmy Caldwell, a young actor in a struggling theatre...

Russell The Bookworm

Feb 1, 20172 min read

Review: Reckless by Cornelia Funke

Published: 2010 Pages: 391 Synopsis: “Ever since Jacob Reckless was a child, he has been escaping to a hidden world through a portal in...

Russell The Bookworm

Feb 1, 20172 min read

Review: Roses in the Rainbow by Mawuena Addo

Published: September 2016 Pages: 272 Synopsis: “When a troubled rich white woman is found dead in her Cape Town office, Police conclude...

Russell The Bookworm

Feb 1, 20171 min read

Review: The Sudden Departure of the Frasers by Louise Candlish

Published: May 2015 Pages: 500 Synopsis: “Welcome to Lime Park Road. A picture-perfect street with a secret at its heart. When Joe and...

Russell The Bookworm

Jan 21, 20172 min read

Review: What Haunts Me by Margaret Millmore

Published: 2015 Pages: 179 Synopsis: “The ghosts that wander among the living do not haunt in the traditional sense; instead, they plague...

Russell The Bookworm

Jan 15, 20172 min read

Review: How To Be A Vigilante by Luke Smitherd

Published: September 2016 Pages: 215 Synopsis: “In the late 1990s, a laptop was found in a service station just outside of Manchester. It...

Russell The Bookworm

Jan 14, 20172 min read

Review: Immortal Shadow by Anderson Atlas

Published: December 2016 Pages: 120 Synopsis: “Jibbawk rises to dominate the planet Lan Darr. He rules with an iron fist and without...

Russell The Bookworm

Jan 12, 20172 min read