Fire and Blood is a Game of Thrones prequel. Though it isn’t a book about a set of characters with lots of speech and a simple overarching plot, instead it tells the story of the hundred years leading up to...

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch is a book I have actually read before. I picked it up three years ago as it sounded quite cool and the front cover pulled me in. However, when I initially picked it up,...

The Vanishing Half was the number one most-voted-for book when I held a poll recently asking people which book I should read from my physical TBR list. After a quick google, I realised I wasn’t quite sure what it was...

The Matthew Shardlake series by CJ Sansom is one of the best historical fiction crime series around. It’s likely not an overcrowded genre but nonetheless, Sansom seems to have marked himself down as the one to beat in the genre...

The Twyford Code is Janice Hallett’s second book after The Appeal was very positively received. I absolutely adored The Appeal – I enjoyed the incredible way it was written and how, despite having the technicality of trying to write a...

I reviewed A Game of Thrones back in 2021 quite early on after I started this blog – since then I’ve done a reread and decided I want to give it another crack. I wrote my review based on memories...