a review by Jade Hounsell Sadie Walker is stranded is set a few months after Allison Hewitt, Seattle has become a walled in city in which …
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Allison Hewitt is Trapped by Madeleine Roux
a review by Jade Hounsell ‘..on the evening of September 15, 2009, just before closing time, the Brooks & Peabody shop on Landon and Park …
Killables by Gemma Malley
a review by Nalini Haynes The Killables is set in a post-apocalyptic future, the central business district of London has been walled in to create a …
Advent by James Treadwell
a review by Nalini Haynes Advent begins with Gavin is a 15 year old boy alienated from his parents, suspended from boarding school, then sent …
Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
A review by Evie Kendal The Nightshade series is a young adult paranormal romance series involving a species of shape-shifting wolves, the Guardians, who are the loyal …
House of Comarre
a review by Evie Kendal The House of Comarre series is best described as a near-future, gothic urban paranormal romance fantasy series. Set in 2067, the …
Rhiannon Hart in 2011
Rhiannon Hart YA paranormal romance author talked to Dark Matter in 2011 and 2012, the day before the launch of Blood Storm. This is the …
Department 19 by Will Hill
A review by Jade Hounsell Before learning about Department 19, Jamie Carpenter is just your average 15 year old. Until a group of men in …
Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde
a review by Nalini Haynes Song of the Quarkbeast is set in an alternate world in the UK where there are dragons, quarkbeasts, magic and …
Extraordinaires by Michael Pryor
a review by Nalini Haynes The Extinction Gambit book one The Extraordinaires introduces Kingsley Ward, a young man who aspires to be a magician or escapologist in …
C J Daugherty: Keeping up the pace in Night School
Keeping up the pace in Night School C J Daugherty blogs about Night School: a DMF exclusive Before I wrote Night School, I read a …
Marianne de Pierres
Marianne de Pierres science fiction fantasy and paranormal romance author talks to Nalini Haynes of Dark Matter Marianne de Pierres came to Melbourne recently to participate in the …
Ship breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
a review by Nalini Haynes Nailer, a teenage boy, and his friends work on a ship breaker team, stripping lightweight salvage from shipwrecks for a …
Angel Arias by Marianne de Pierres
Night Creatures book 2 a review by Nalini Haynes Spoiler for Burn Bright, the first in the series. Naif, also called Retra, is a teenager who, in …
Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
a review by Nalini Haynes First up I have to confess: the word ‘statistical’ in the title does not automatically make a novel SF or fantasy. …