Book Review: Dream a Little Dream

By Cheshire

Wow, it has been a while since our last post, huh? Well, I’ve been on a book binge, so guess what blog is going to be suddenly and ridiculously flooded with book reviews! (If you didn’t guess, I meant ours. I mean, I’ll be writing reviews at least. Can’t make any guarantees for sweet old Blue.) Also, thanks to the Red Balloon bookstore for the opportunity to read this ARC. It was great!

Summary: Mysterious doors with lizard-head knobs. Talking stone statues. A crazy girl with a hatchet. Yep, Liv’s dreams have been pretty weird lately. Especially this one where she’s in a graveyard at night, watching four boys perform dark magic rituals.

The really weird thing is that Liv recognizes the boys in her dream. They’re classmates from her new school in London, the school where’s she’s starting over because her mom has moved them to a new country (again). But they seem to know things about her in real life that they couldn’t possibly know, which is mystifying. Then again, Liv could never resist a good mystery. . . .  

My Rating: FIVE STARS!

Return to the Grishaverse

By Cheshire

SQUEEE! The book formerly titled The Dregs has gotten a sweet new upgrade.

A continuation- or spinoff rather- of the Grisha series books by Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows will be bringing us back to the Grishaverse we know and love. I am filled with an indescribable joy. I’m pretty sure Blue is too. Just look at it though! 😀

I am so psyched. Must. Have.

For more info on the renaming of the newest addition to a wonderfully delightful series, visit Leigh Bardugo’s blog at lbardugo.tumblr.com or click on the picture above.

YAY!

That is all.

Book Review: Neverwhere

By Cheshire

Okay, so I never even realized when I was starting this book that this awesome cast is on the BBC radio version of Gaiman’s wonderful, dark Alice in Wonderland-type epic:

And not only them, but Anthony Head voices either Mr. Croup or Mr. Vandemar (I couldn’t really tell) and the guy who plays Wilf from Dr. Who is Old Bailey. *squeals of delight* I must now purchase the CDs on Amazon. This makes me so happy. 🙂 Now you are all probably wondering what I am talking about. So here goes.

Summary: Under the streets of London there’s a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.

Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: Neverwhere.

My Rating: FIVE STARS