Recent Reads: August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White

Posted on 12/07/202208/01/2023 by Pam

My review:🌟🌟🌟🌟

August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White has giant mechas from space that are arriving on Earth to destroy everything they can see, August has met someone he loves, and has also found that he can get into a mecha and control it, somehow. Maybe its not the end of the world, after all!

A world ending story with giant mechas being the cause is a little different! I liked the story line with an LGBTQ+ positive couple.

This is an adventure book with fast packing and jeopardy around every corner!

If you enjoy Gundam anime or transformers, then I recommend you give this a try!

August Kitko and the Mechas from Space was published on 12th July 2022, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Alex White on Instagram.

I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Little, Brown Book Group.

Recent Reads: Together We Burn by Isabel Ibañez

Posted on 05/07/202209/10/2022 by Pam

My review:🌟🌟🌟

In Together We Burn by Isabel Ibañez, Zarela is the daughter of a famous flamenco dancer and a dragonador (matador except for dragons instead of bulls). There is an an accident, and her mother dies.

The story picks up a year later, and Zarela is a flamenco dancer herself, but feeling frustrated as the crowd doesn’t want to see her dances, they want her mothers. Something happens, and Zarela decides the way she can help best is by becoming a dragonader herself.

I found some bits felt out of place – how Zorela feels before her mother dies is too young for a year to pass and her to be 18, and a dancer herself, in my opinion.

I also found money to feel disconnected. It didn’t feel quite right, or explained, so amounts felt inconsistent.

I did enjoy aspects of this book, but there are things that got in my way.

Together We Burn was published on 5th July 2022, and is available from Amazon.

You can follow Isabel Ibañez on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Titan Books.

Recent Reads: Plan for the Worst by Jodi Taylor (The Chronicles of St Mary’s book 11)

Posted on 02/07/202230/08/2022 by Pam

My review:🌟🌟🌟🌟

Max went to war with the Time Police in the last book, and Dr Bairstow had to restrain her when they left, all to find that Matthew was with Leon, after the Time Police tried to keep him!

The Time Police are very much people who aren’t allowed at St Mary’s anymore!

Dr Bairstow sends Max, Leon and Matthew off to do what should be a light, easy, uncomplicated job, but because they’re St Mary’s, you know it’s going to be more than that!

The Markham and Hunter hilarity has been going on for a while – are they married or was that a slip of the tongue for Matthew? Also, Hunter is very pregnant!

I do wish these people would talk to each other, some times, and that’s not just Max and Leon!

Plan for the Worst was published on 16th April 2020 and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can read my reviews of the other books in the series below:

Just One Damned Thing After Another – book 1

A Symphony of Echoes – book 2

A Second Chance – book 3

A Trail Through Time – book 4

No Time Like the Past – book 5

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? – book 6

Lies, Damned Lies and History – book 7

And The Rest Is History – book 8

The Long and The Short of It – short stories