I’ve never seen the film adaptation of Picnic At Hanging Rock, but the trailers for the new BBC series piqued my interest and so I thought it high time I read this classic tale of mystery….I don’t know what I was expecting, but whatever it was, it wasn’t this. Back in 1900, most of the pupils of a stuffy Australian girl’s boarding school are going on a picnic to a local beauty spot, Hanging Rock. While there, a small group of girls decides to go […]
I personally think that a hundred years’ sleep sounds pretty fantastic…
And so here we are – with Once Broken Faith I’ve now reached the limit of the Toby Daye series as published so far – but thankfully, not for long as The Brightest Fell comes out next week and like a good addict I will very definitely be downloading on the day of release. Following the world-changing events of A Red-Rose Chain, where a cure for elf-shot was discovered, High King Sollys has shown up in the Kingdom of the Mists and called a conclave, […]
*Does not contain actual dragons*
I’ve had this sat on my kindle for the longest time – I bought it during a period in which I was reading pretty much nothing but historical fiction – and, despite it being set during one of my favourite historical periods, hadn’t thought much about picking it up ever since. Until I asked my boyfriend which book I should read next and, thinking it would be about actual dragons, he picked this. Here Be Dragons must be an incredibly fat book, starting as it […]
The book wasn’t great, but the music was…
Gifted to me for my birthday due to them making up a large part of my record collection, Dead Gods takes a look at some of the more famous members of the 27 Club – Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones and Robert Johnson – all extremely talented musicians who passed away in their 27th year. Despite nominally being about the 27 Club, aside from a couple of paragraphs in the introduction, there’s no real effort to talk about […]