Tag Archives: children’s fiction

Page Count: 221 Rating: 5/5 REVIEW I really loved this story and the characters that featured within it. I really loved the friendship group and the other characters within the school setting and I loved how the different monsters of DnD were characterised and what their interactions would be. I didn’t realise it was aContinue reading “Dungeon Academy -Tourney of Terror by Madeleine Roux”

Page Count: 344 Rating: 4/5 REVIEW It is a really good read and a really interesting premise but I do wish that there had been more dragons as that is the title of the book and that there was more than one (tiny) paper dragon (that wasn’t a boat) came into play – especially whenContinue reading “Paper Dragons – The Fight for the Hidden Realm by Siobhan McDermott”

Page Count: 349 Rating: 5/5 REVIEW A really good story of two Black girls in Victorian London doing their best to solve a case of attempted murder while the city seems to be working against them. The book handles racism and the slave trade with honesty and not using shock value. It is a goodContinue reading “Lizzie & Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger”

Page Count: 227 Rating: 4/5 REVIEW This is a wonderful feel-good story of the weedy kid becoming the hero and I love the idea of being able to talk to the dragons, the dragons themselves also having different personalities and one of the ‘tough’ characters seeing that brains not brawn is more helpful in certainContinue reading “How to Train your Dragon by Cressida Cowell”