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Never let me go Kazuo Ishiguro

January 25, 2016 By Jax Blunt 3 Comments

Buy Never Let Me Go at Amazon (affiliate) In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms […]

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The girl with all the gifts

August 1, 2014 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

Buy at Amazon |Buy at hive|Buy on kindle Book description from Amazon: NOT EVERY GIFT IS A BLESSING Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks […]

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Kim Curran: Dreams and regrets – a GLAZE blog tour guest post.

May 9, 2014 By Jax Blunt 8 Comments

Welcome Kim Curran: When I read Jax’s beautiful post on Dreams and Regrets I was nodding harder than a bobble head dog. Like many writers, I’ve had my share of rejections. Although, as I’m relatively new in the game, mine are all in digital form. But ever now and then I look back on those […]

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Independent Study (The Testing 2) Joelle Charbonneau

February 19, 2014 By Jax Blunt 5 Comments

Independent Study is the second in The Testing series by Joelle Charbonneau. I reviewed the Testing last summer, and said at the time I thought that some of the comparisons with the Hunger Games were a little overplayed and a bit harsh. Do I still feel that way? Yes and no. This is a different […]

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Red Rising. Pierce Brown

January 28, 2014 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the vast caves beneath the surface of Mars, generations of people who spend their lives toiling to mine the precious elements that will allow the planet to be terraformed. Just knowing that, one day, people will be able to walk the […]

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Acid by Emma Pass.

July 24, 2013 By Jax Blunt 2 Comments

I’ve been struggling with reading recently. I’ve started lots of books, and got quite a way into some of them, got interrupted by life and just never really felt like going back. I hate it. It’s kind of untidy in my head, half started stories, but none of them dragging me back, all feeling rather […]