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Starting off with Elspeth Spindle, a resident of Burden, who as a child wandered into the mist that seems to always be around the township. While in the mist Elspeth ended up contracting "the fever". It's said that people who survive the fever end up having a magical ability afterwards.  From the beginning of the story Elspeth has what seems like someone/something else in her mind, she can hear a voice. More than her own thought process, but less than another person. The magic caused by the mist is something that is feared by commoners, and is something that is hunted and by the ‘physicians’ locked up and destroyed. As I progressed into the book there is an introduction to two different sources of magic. There is magic that comes from surviving the fever, which is not completely understood. The other sources  of noninfected/fever magic is provided by enchanted cards, each card has a different colour, and symbol associated with their ability, and detriment. ...

The main premise of the book is about a book shop owner Ashlyn Greer, a rare book seller, who has this special ability to feel the feelings left on a book from an owner through what she calls echos. One day as she is going through a box of old books that a friend came across, she ends up feeling a great despair emanating from a particular book. After reaching out to the person she recieved the book from she finds out there there are 2 devastating novels both with feelings of despair associated with the echos given off from the books. The story is 2 sets of stories intertwined with unfolding as it is actualy happening, with a more of a realtime feel, and the other is taken from the found novels leaving a whole world of historical mystery.  I found that as I was reading the book, I was more interested in Ashlyns story, rather than the stories told by the authors from the discovered novels. All in all I did not find the main story and the other two discovered from the books too far ...

  The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff Set to release January 29, 2019 I have been waiting for months for this book . I have been scouring Netgalley , and applying for advanced copies, and entering into contests to perhaps get my hands on one of the few circulating copies of this book. When I was finally approved to a copy via Netgalley, the formatting was unfortunately not a decent match for my Kobo. So after the long expected wait I have managed to get my greasy paws on a copy, and I have already streamlined this book to be read within the next book or two. Initially while I was doing my research into the release date of this book was saying it was set to be released on February 5 th , but as I was finishing up Broken Angels by Gemma Livewire I found out that the actual release date was January 29 th .             This book starts in 1946 Manhattan with Grace Healey coming...

So it’s been quite some time since I have posted on the kobokonos, and I thought that I would explain as to where my head has been. Most of the books that I have posted about on this webpage were free preceding copies provided by publishers and Netgalley. I became frustrated with the webpage when all of my preapproved copies expired on my device whole I was out one day attempting to read a new story. So I left to read something that I had on my device that didn’t have and expiry date, which wasn’t the worst thing, but I started to go through the books that I found on my own. With a lack of a demand to have to post it looks like there wasn't much of a reason to do so. To be honest with you it looks like I miss writing about books. Looks like we are on the comeback tour. I was sitting at home finishing the shape of water, and I loved the book that I thought I would write a post for it because the book is beautiful. So in short it looks like I am planning on coming back and post...

The book starts with seventeen year old Eleanor 'Ellie' Parker waking up on the embankment of a river half in the water, in the early hours of the morning. Ellie has little recollection of the night before. She manages to get home, but throughout the morning she begins to find that she has significant bruising on her chest and arms, she finds that she can’t get warm, and cannot eat or hold anything down when she eats. After no food, no sleep, and no experience of pain since awakening on the river embankment, Ellie becomes convinced that she died that night. She has no explanation as to how she is still conscious and functioning as she did prior to the forgotten night. Ellie and her family lives in a small town where gossip appears to be one of the main currencies. Nothing is private in the town, and for anything that is a well kept secret, becomes embellished beyond belief through rumours, and lies. Ellie’s brother Oliver has been the centre of scrutiny in the previous y...

I am thankful for my advanced copy of The Death of Mrs.Westaway from the publisher via NetGalley. Hal is a young woman who seems to always be down on her luck. The story starts off with Hal, going through her current mail, and seeing all of her bills are pretty much all final notices. Invoice after invoice, Hal realizes that she’s running financially on empty. While she is going through her mail, she finds a hand written letter informing Hal that she is the heir to a somewhat large fortune. This doesn’t seem to make sense to Hal as she lost her mother in a tragic hit and run accident before Hal could finish high school. Her loss put her in emotional turmoil, and swept the only thing that was secure right out from under her feet. The loss of Hal’s mother forced her to have to change, and grow up fast. She takes up her mother’s business to attempt to make ends meet. Provides tarot card readings, and palm readings as she has witnessed her mother do many times over. Hal fi...

So I have been MIA over the past few weeks, and that's because I have been moving. So reading and reviewing has been at an all time low. I have finished Rachel Lynch's Dark Game (DI Kelly Porter 1), and a review is coming. I have also started reading Deep Fear by Rachel Lynch as well (DI Kelly Porter #2). Unfortunately for Deep Fear I have something like 3 days to finish the book before it's locked out of my library. So all in all it looks like the race is on.

The Girl in the Blue Beret By Bobby Ann Mason. Marshall Stone, an ex-pilot forced into retirement from his commercial airline. Stone decides after he no longer has any obligation to the airline, that he is going to get in touch with the various individuals who helped him and his air crew escape German occupied France. Marshall was one of the pilots who flew a bomber for the allies during the Second World War. On a return mission Stone and his crew are shot out of the sky, and are forced to initiate and emergency landing. Once on the ground in France, the surviving crew attempt to escape the German forces. Along with the aid of the surrounding villagers the crew manage to evade capture, and return home. This book was a difficult read for me, it was the complexity of the reading, but it was the dryness and the story itself. On my Goodreads account I gave this book ⭐⭐/5. I think one of the fatal flaws of this book for me was Marshall Stone’s character. Stone is obsessed with every...