If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting!   When browsing through my many bookish newsletters'today I came across an ad for Wally Lambs latest release'We Are Water, and was struck by the cover design, which I found fiercely reminiscent of...

Yesterday I asked the readers of the RIASS Facebook page whether they make themselves finish reading a book thats really not to their tastes, or whether they put such a book down. And if the latter, at what point would they do so? Theres a reason that this review is appearing about a week later than originally scheduled. And thats because...

One of the topics that I find endlessly interesting in fiction is the lengths that many authors will go to in order to avoid dealing with modern technology in their work. A functioning mobile phone, for example, can easily put an end to a disaster or adventure story, so its little wonder that characters either lose them, forget to charge them, or break...

My husband Jono and I have pretty divergent reading tastes: his section of the bookshelf is largely business books and non-fiction, whereas mines largely fiction with the odd piece of narrative non-fiction thrown in. But there is some overlap in our reading habits, and zingy fiction that treads the line between MG and YA definitely comprises a large part...

Whew, here I am, having emerged from air after slogging my way through Elizabeth Hoyts'Lord of Darkness, the latest in her Maiden Lane series. Though not a long novel, Lord of Darkness certainly feels it: I suspect that there might be some sort of time dilation powers hidden within its pages. Theres a reason that category romance novels tend to...

Anyone whos been reading this site for a while knows that I regularly pass on zingy series fiction to my husband. Though his reading interests are polar opposites of mine, hes possibly an even tougher critic. Hes basically a thirty-year-old teenage boy, and a mere paragraph of extraneous exposition results in him skim-readingor...