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Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare – review

The first book in The Infernal Devices series, Clockwork Angel is a great book for lovers of the Mortal Instruments series as this serves as a prequel series. The story follows Tessa Gray, who has just arrived from America to find her brother in England but her plans are stopped when she is “taken in” by the Dark Sisters, who claim to know her brother. Trapped in their house and forced to improve an unique ability she never knew she had, Tessa is rescued by a mysterious young man called Will Herondale. Now dragged into a new world with weird beings, Tessa is determined to find her brother but soon learns that this new world may be more dangerous than she first thought.

Celtic Myths by Sam McBratney – review

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I`m rather interested in Celtic mythology, I always have been, and this book contained the most variation of any I had read before. The illustrations (by Stephen Player) were very pretty. The stories were amazing and my personal favourite was Limpet Rock and The Land of Youth. Little notes and pronunciations of names and words were also present in this book something i thought was a nice touch.

All in all I’d give this book seven selkies out of ten.

Dragonball Volume 10, 11 & 12 by Akira Toriyama – review

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The story of Dragon Ball continues the story of Goku, and his quest to get stronger!

With the 7 Dragon Balls in hand (yet again), Goku finally brings Bora, Upa’s father, back from the dead with Shenlong’s help. However, the story jumps a little into the future after this event.
All of the characters have been training for the next Strongest Under the Heavens tournament, and Goku is determined to win it on his second attempt but the arrival of the Crane Hermit and his students ruin the party. And what’s even worst the Demon King Piccolo has returned after years of imprisonment and is back with a vengeance: to take over Earth. Will he succeed or can Goku stop him?

The story is progressing a lot, and it’s starting to get interesting. I highly recommend the series so far and I plan to finish the entire series so I have high expectations!

Miss Peregrine`s Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs – review

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I really enjoyed reading this book. The plot was something I found captivated my attention and I’m someone who doesn’t usually enjoy plots about time travel. However Ransom Riggs managed to do it in a way that I found interesting. The pictures littered throughout the book really helped me envision the story. The main character was someone who I was actually able to feel for, in fact, one of the best things was that I could feel for just about every character. There were still a few things that I felt weren’t fully explained, or some time loop rules that weren’t consistent throughout the whole book. Having said that I would still recommend this book to so many others.

The Whispers Of Wilderwood Hall by Karen McCombie – Book Review

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I thought The Whispers Of Wilderwood Hall was really good, however it didn’t surprise me that much with the ending which was particularly predictable. All in All it wasn`t a bad book and it was a really nice story about learning to cope with change.

New on the Library Blog – Five Star Reviews

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This is a new idea for the Library Blog, which I saw on an Australian School Library page and which I thought would be worth a try. Instead of just saying “I give this book five stars” when it is reviewed, the idea is to find five individual things about the book that are your star points, for instance a particularly exciting escape from danger, or an amazing description of the ocean, or a really grisly murder… Those five things make up your review, and should give other potential readers a good idea of whether this is, or is not, their type of read. Of course it only works if the book is worth five different points, so the trivial or not-so-good are automatically weeded out.

Tomorrow I will Five Star Review the book I have just finished reading myself – The Girl of Ink and Stars, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave – watch this space to see what I loved about it!

I love this book – The Wolf Wilder, by Katherine Rundell

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The Wolf Wilder is a story that reads like a fable. There’s an epic journey, a really dreadful villain and a strong and intelligent heroine, wolves and a Russian winter. There is snow and blood. It’s exciting and an edge-of-the-seat read. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves beautiful words, likes animals, enjoys an adventure, or who wants to get lost in a traditional tale.

“One-Punch Man” by ONE and Yusuke Murata

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“One-Punch Man” is a manga series written by One, an anonymous manga writer and illustrator, and Yusuke Murata, the series’s manga artist. The series centres around Saitama, a hero for fun and is the series character One Punch Man, and his student Genos, a cyborg with a vengeance and their adventures on their quest to become the top Class S heroes. The series is action packed but has more of a comedy theme throughout, with Saitama being the main source of this. I really love this series, with Genos being my favourite character so far. I highly recommend this series.

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, reviewed by misssallylockhart

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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novel, showing her childhood in Iran during revolutions and the war, her adolescence in Europe away from Iran and her return to her home country in her early twenties. This story definitely brings lots of serious topics onto the table but shows how Marjane doesn’t understand how bad things are until she starts to grow up. I actually enjoyed this book more than I thought I would and I plan to watch the film soon. I recommend this to anyone.

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas reviewed by fab333

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The stunning sequel to Sarah J. Maas’ (Author of Throne of Glass series) bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses. In A Court of Mist and Fury Feyre has survived Amarantha’s clutches to return to the Spring Court–but at a steep cost. Her humanity. Plagued with nightmares Feyre struggles to cope with her new reality;

The fact that she has a human soul and has a high fey body
Coping with the people she murdered for Tamlin
Dealing with her emerging powers
The repercussions of her deal with Rhysand
And worst of all her relationship with Tamlin – that’s falling apart at the seams

Join Feyre as she meats new friends new foes and sees new places. Feyre must once again fight not only for her people, her friends and her life but she must also fight once again for love.