32. Fellside by MR CareyA ghost story set in a women's prison. I'm a big fan of Carey's work and attended an interview with him at Waterstones where he talked about this book & the research he did before I read it, so I know that he has become a passionate advocate for prison reform and against the privatisation the prison services and the ( Read more... )

Wow, I am spectacularly bad at this. Once again I had a lot of thoughts at the time but have undoubtedly forgotten everything I wanted to say.

55. Ancillary Justice by Ann LeckieOr That Book What Won All the Awards This Year ( Read more... )

3. The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey
The premise for the final volume is set up in the last book. I couldn't put it down, and thought that it tied up the series nicely. A lot of other people didn't, apparently ( Read more... )

2. Thicker than Water by Mike CareyI had problems getting into the second book in this series, but not with this one (this is the fourth. I read the third a couple years ago). It gripped me right from the start ( Read more... )

76. Vicious Circle by Mike Carey

The second Felix Castor novel. Maybe it was me, but I didn't like it as much as either the first or the third. Still read the second half in two days.

71. The Devil You Know by Mike Carey

When I reserved London Falling from the library, it reminded me that I never got around to reading the rest of the Felix Castor novels after reading and loving Dead Men's Boots some time ago. So I reserved the lot (there are only 5 in total ( Read more... )