| Title: | Ironside |
| Author: | Holly Black |
| Genre: | Fiction/Supernatural |
| Synopsis: | In the third in Holly Black’s Modern Faerie novels, Kaye must go on a quest to win her place amongst the faeries and save her love and loved ones from a plot that twists both the Seelie and unSeelie courts. |
| Verdict: | Another excellent novel full of beauty, menace and lovely otherworldly imagery and riddles. Just as striking as ‘Tithe’ and ‘Valiant’, the easy callousness of the fey folk is mesmerising. |
| Pages: | 323 |
| Read: | February 2010 |
28 February 2010
#46. Ironside by Holly Black
#45. The Ice Wolves: A Hellboy Novel by Mark Chadbourn
| Title: | The Ice Wolves: A Hellboy Novel |
| Author: | Mark Chadbourn |
| Genre: | Supernatural/Action |
| Synopsis: | A prophecy that heralds the rise of werewolves and their time of dominion over the Earth sets Hellboy on the path of a lost artefact but will he uncover it first or is he being used to lead the werewolves to it? |
| Verdict: | A fun, light read, very straightforward with a lot less collateral damage in the way of secondary characters than usual. Interesting take on the werewolf myth. |
| Pages: | 251 |
| Read: | February 2010 |
#44. Gentlemen Of The Road by Michael Chabon
| Title: | Gentlemen Of The Road |
| Author: | Michael Chabon |
| Genre: | Historical Fiction |
| Synopsis: | Two wandering soldiers encounter the last prince of a deposed family and tie their fates to his as they reluctantly agree to help return him to his home if not to his throne. |
| Verdict: | Interesting for its turns of phrase and historical points but didn’t really draw me in. I felt held at a remove for the most part. |
| Pages: | 204 |
| Read: | February 2010 |
#43. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
| Title: | The Girl who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest |
| Author: | Stieg Larsson |
| Genre: | Murder/Crime Fiction |
| Synopsis: | After the events of earlier Lisbeth is badly injured, under arrest and it is up to Mikael Blomkvist and her friends to expose the conspiracy before she is convicted for crimes not her own. |
| Verdict: | Just as intricate and tightly packed as the first two, the sheer amount of build up and detail that lead to the climax would frustrate some but I loved watching all the prep work crash down in devastating waves on those it was aimed against. Very sad there won’t be any more Stieg Larsson novels but glad the ones he did write were so good and ended so well. |
| Pages: | 599 |
| Read: | February 2010 |
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