CHILD OF THE PROPHECY is the third book in the Sevenwaters Trilogy. Told from the point of view of Fainne, daughter of Niamh and Ciaran, it tells of a sad tale of […]
Juliet Marillier’s CHILD OF THE PROPHECY (SEVENWATERS #3)
Juliet Marillier’s SON OF THE SHADOWS (SEVENWATERS #2)
I didn’t think it possible that Juliet Marillier could top her achievement of DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST, the first of the Sevenwaters Trilogy, which is also a re-telling of the Grimm’s Fairy […]
Juliet Marillier’s DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST (SEVENWATERS #1)
It takes eight pages for conflict to erupt in DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST, for the first plot point to be anchored to the story, when Finbur quietly defies his father’s anger and […]
THE LANTERN BEARERS (DOLPHIN RING CYCLE #4) by Rosemary Sutcliff
THE LANTERN BEARERS is set roughly 300 years after her first, THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH in around 427 CE. 18-year-old Aquila is just starting out on life, and has spent a […]
FRONTIER WOLF by Rosemary Sutcliff (DOLPHIN RING CYCLE #3)
Rosemary Sutcliff’s FRONTIER WOLF concerns a young man, Alexios, who is in his early twenties. He is given the responsibility of commanding a unit in what is now Germany, but when the […]
Victoria Holt’s MISTRESS OF MELLYN
Mistress of Mellyn really creeped me out. There I was sitting up in bed at midnight, the dark only relieved by the light from my iPad screen. And I really felt uncomfortable. […]
Rosemary Sutcliff’s THE SILVER BRANCH (DOLPHIN RING CYCLE #2)
THE SILVER BRANCH is set about 200 years after THE EAGLE. Marcus Flavius Aquila’s namesake grandson (called Flavius rather than Marcus) and his cousin Justin come across something that points to treason […]
THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH (DOLPHIN RING CYCLE #1)
No-one knows what really happened to the Ninth Legion, the Hispana. All that is known is that it marched north into what is now Scotland to deal with the Painted People, and […]
A fairy tale set in the years 1859 to 1870 in Germany…(ON THE NIGHT OF THE SEVENTH MOON)
ON THE NIGHT OF THE SEVENTH MOON by Victoria Holt is a fairy tale set in the years 1859 to 1870 in Germany. A young English girl gets lost in the mists […]
THE STONES OF GREEN KNOWE (GREEN KNOWE #6) by Lucy Maria Boston
In this last, sixth novel of the series, we say “goodbye” to our friends at Green Knowe. In this farewell volume, published in 1976, twelve years after volume five, we see our […]
