Publication Date: 1997-2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Age Group: All
Genre: Fantasy/ Magic/ Adventure/ Children's
Source: My favourites bookshelf
Lootability: *****
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Saturday
Series Review: Harry Potter by J.K Rowling
Publication Date: 1997-2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Age Group: All
Genre: Fantasy/ Magic/ Adventure/ Children's
Source: My favourites bookshelf
Lootability: *****
Review: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
Publication Date: 27th July 2007
Publisher: Hodder
ISBN: 9780340752029
Age Group: Adult
Genre: Fantasy/Literature/Thriller/Adventure
Source: Bookshelf
Lootability: *****
It has been fourteen years since Thursday pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and Friday is now a difficult sixteen year old. However, Thursday's got bigger problems. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Rheinback Falls and his series is stopped in its tracks. And before this can be corrected, Miss Havisham dies suddenly in a car accident, bringing her series to a close as well. When Thursday receives a death threat clearly intended for her written self, she realizes what's going on - there is a serial killer on the loose in the Bookworld. And that's not all: The Goliath Corporation is trying to deregulate book travel. Naturally, Thursday must travel to the outer limits of acceptable narrative possibilities to triumph against increasing odds.
Friday
Review: Flame of Sevenwaters by Juliet Marillier
Website | Goodreads | Publication Date: 6th November 2013
Publisher: MacMillian Australia
ISBN: 9781742611624
Age Group: Young Adult to Adult
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
Source: Bookshelf
Lootability: *****
Going home can be the hardest thing of all...
When Maeve, twenty year old daughter of Lord Sean of Sevenwaters, accompanies a skittish horse back to Erin, she must confront her demons. For Maeve carries the legacy of a childhood fire in her crippled hands. She has lived with her aunt in Britain for ten years, developing a special gift for gentling difficult animals.
Maeve arrives home to find Sevenwaters in turmoil. The forest surrounding her father's keep also has uncanny inhabitants, including a community of Fair Folk. Now the fey prince Mac Dara has become desperate to see his only son return to the Otherworld to rule after him. To force Sean's hand, Mac Dara has made innocent travellers on the Sevenwaters border disappear, and now their bodies are appearing one by one in bizarre circumstances. Mac Dara's malign activities must be stopped. But how? What human army can defeat a force with magic at its fingertips?
Maeve's gift with animals earns her respect at Sevenwaters. She bonds with her enigmatic small brother, Finbar, his druid tutor Luachan, and two stray dogs. When Maeve discovers the body of one of the missing men, she and Finbar are drawn into a journey where the stakes are high: they may bring about the end of Mac Dara's reign, or suffer a hideous death. For Maeve, success may lead to a future she has not dared to believe possible.
Tuesday
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Publication Date: July 15th 2001
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
ISBN: 034073356X
Age Group: Adult
Genre: Literature/Adventure/Crime
Source: My beloved bookshelf
Lootability: *****
There is another 1985, where London's criminal gangs have moved into the lucrative literary market, and Thursday Next is on the trail of the new crime wave's Mr Big.Jasper Fforde has made the world of literary classics into an intriguing and fascinating world of mystery and conflict. With Baconian’s and Oxford supporters promoting the ‘true’ author of Shakespeares plays, SpecOps fighting werewolves and a super-villain who can’t be caught on film, Fforde creates a literary world surrounding LitTech Thursday Next’s adventures.
Acheron Hades has been kidnapping characters from works of fiction and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre is gone. Missing.Thursday sets out to find a way into the book to repair the damage. But solving crimes against literature isn't easy when you also have to find time to halt the Crimean War, persuade the man you love to marry you, and figure out who really wrote Shakespeare's plays.Perhaps today just isn't going to be Thursday's day. Join her on a truly breathtaking adventure, and find out for yourself. Fiction will never be the same again...
Saturday
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Publication Date: 1999
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330361937
Age Group: Adult/Young Adult (Mature content)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Source: My bookshelf
Lootability: *****
To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss and terror. When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for Sorcha to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once.The first book of, in my opinion, Australia’s best fantasy author, Daughter of the Forest is a brilliant start. Marillier published her first book, in her later years, and since it broke through has undertaken the time and effort to research another 11 novels.
Monday
Seven days of Austen: Persuasion by Jane Austen
Publication Date: Originally published 1818
Publisher: Oct 1st, 2008 Random House Publishing
ISBN: 0099511177
Age Group: Adult
Genre: Classic/Romance
Source: Bookshelf
Lootability: *****
Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now, circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle and Anne finds her old feelings for him reignited. However, when they meet again Wentworth behaves as if they are strangers and seems more interested in her friend Louisa.
Sunday
7 Days of Austen: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Publication Date: Originally published 1813
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
ISBN: 0679783261
Age Group: All Ages
Genre: Classic/Romance
Source: Bookshelf
Lootability: *****
What is it about Pride and Prejudice that makes it such a successfil and romantic love story? Why do Elizabeth (Lizzy to her friends) Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy appeal to us, and make such a dynamic duo?
I first read P&P when I was fifteen and spending the last two weeks of my summer holidays trying not to look like a dunce in literature by reading classics. I expected to struggle, to miss the fantasty realms I was used to, what I didn't expect was to fall head over heels in love with this book.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature
Publication Date: Originally published 1847
Publisher: Norton and Company
ISBN: 0393978893
Age Group: Adult
Genre: Classic/Gothic/Supernatural
Source: Bookshelf
Lootability: *****
Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier
Its name is spoken only in whispers, if the people of Alban dare to speak it at all: Shadowfell. The training ground for rebels seeking to free their land from the grip of the tyrannical king is so shrouded in mystery that most believe it to be a myth.
But for Neryn, Shadowfell's existence is her only hope. She is penniless, orphaned, and utterly alone - and concealing a treacherous magical power that will warrant her immediate enslavement should it be revealed. She finds hope of allies in the Good Folk, fey beings whom she must pretend she cannot see and who taunt her with chatter of prophecies and tests, and in a striking, mysterious stranger, who saves her from certain death but whose motives remain unclear. She knows she should not trust anyone with her plans, but something within her longs to confide in him.
Will Neryn be forced to make the dangerous journey alone? She must reach Shadowfell, not only to avenge her family and salvage her own life, but to rescue Alban itself.
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