Alias Grace takes a number of things I love – Margaret Atwood, history, and true crime – and makes a truly fantastic book that is as deeply interesting as it is hard to put down. Grace Marks was convicted, alongside fellow servant James McDermott, of the murder of their employer Thomas Kinnear and his mistress and housekeeper, Nancy. Convicted due to circumstantial evidence, some believe that Grace is evil personified, while others believe her to be another innocent victim of the case. Trying to get […]
CANNONBALL!
I’m falling behind in my reviews again, having finished this over 2 weeks ago but since discovering an epic Reddit thread that has been taking up all of my time. This is even more annoying given that I’ve just realised that with this book I finally claimed a Cannonball (doh! And yay!) A Conjuring of Light starts exactly where A Gathering of Shadows left off. As Red London celebrates the victor of The Element Games, a shadow is stealing through the city, leaching it of […]
Yeesh.
In Washington State in the early 80s, young women were going missing. Mostly young women who were at risk – runaways and sex workers – everyone seemed content to believe that they had simply moved elsewhere. But when bodies started to be found, first in the Green River that would give a killer his name and then in clusters in lonely camping spots, the truth could no longer be ignored. A serial killer was in their midst. The Green River Killer remained at large for […]
Sorry Kell, I’m all about Lila
It’s been a few months since the events at the climax of A Darker Shade of Magic, and Kell is back in Red London. Having saved his ‘brother’ by binding Rhy’s life to his own, Kell is now finding that his adopted ma and pa, the King and Queen of Red London, are loathe to let him out of their sight lest harm come to him, though not for his own sake but that of their heir. And so Rhy comes up with a scheme […]