You need to know one thing before you delve into this review: I am making a conscious effort to not continue books I don't feel much for. Ever since I joined GoodReads last year, I've felt incredible guilty about DNFing novels, but on every account, I've either finished a bad book and given it a bad...
The summary reads like a fairly typical YA novel, but that is only the packaging. The City's Son has its fair share of mature themes and plot events that you would never have found spelled out in anything written for kids on the verge of adulthood. In fact this unexpected shift of perception made th...
Review: There’s more to London than you’ve ever know.live people in statues. Trains with minds of their own. Electric dancers. And an evil god in the skyscrapers. Beth, after one last act of betrayal, has been thrown out of her school and her home. After unexpectedcly coming across a pair of fighti...
Read This Review & More Like It On My Blog!Welcome to a London come alive with voice-eating spiders, mirror-dwelling aristocrats, and talking lights that literally dance upon the streets. A London where Gods and Goddesses walk the roads unnoticed by the normal human population, and fight one another...
In this young adult urban fantasy, war is coming to London. The destructive Reach is killing the city and his opponent the Lady of the Streets is missing. Only her son, sixteen-year-old Filius Viae is left to recruit her supporters and defeat Reach. But he is young, and frightened, and not a general...
This review was completed by Tim Kershaw, staff reviewer with the Fantasy Book Addict.Firstly, I’d like to do a little backpedaling. To the people who have only given this book a 1 Star or a ‘Didn’t Finish’ because it was either “too difficult” or “there was too much going on” – you are morons and I...
Beth and Pen are the closest of friends. Beth is an artist and Pen a poet and together they cope with school and family issues, but they have a particular problem at the moment with a teacher who is repeatedly bullying Pen. Beth supports her friend through this as best she can, and indulges in a t...
4.5/5 Egalley thanks to Flux BooksIt looks like I'm really rooting for British YA authors these days, doesn't it?Tom Pollock has a sick and brilliant mind. The City's Son is an overpowering, overwhelming cascade of strong emotions and harsh images, urban jungle and beauty in completely unexpected se...
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