Summary:Connie is dealing with her battles with Kullervo who has forged a bond with her. He continues to control her as her powers are growing out of control. She is expelled from school and is sent to her Great Aunt. In the process, she runs across a Minotaur. The Minotaur helps her deal with he...
A touching and beautiful story of a young glass-designer getting her recognition through a civil unrest in a semi-idyllic world representing class distinction and other social wrongs, just as the real world. I enjoyed the fine artistic sensibility interpreted as almost magical. Beauty is a necess...
Since I liked the first book lots, I had decided that I wanted to read the companion book. And no, I was not disappointed at all! In fact, I liked it a lot, although it wasn't as good as Dragonfly.I'm glad that this wasn't exactly continuing Ramil and Taoshira's story, because they don't really d...
I might have given this more stars if the author hadn't started trying to put Billy and Cat together. I"m assuming the author is trying to show that people can make a turn around and be better then they are. However, with Billy I can't believe Cat is falling for him! He's tried to kill her, twice...
Mines of the Minotaur (The Companions Quartet #3), 2008, Julia GoldingCharacters: Connie Lionheart (11 year old girl), Colin (Col) Clamworthy (11 year old boy), Skylark (A young Pegasus), Evelyn Lionheart (Connie's Aunt), Lavinia Clamworthy (Col's Grandmother), Aneena Nuruddin (Connie's best frie...
Set in 1790's Covent Garden this book whisks you back to a bygone era, and to embark on an adventure about one hidden treasure, two bare-knuckle boxers, three enemies, and four hundred and thirty-eight rioters.It is the tale of Cat Royal, an orphan, four foot four with long red hair and not a pen...
Cat O'Nine Tails Cat, feisty heroine of "Cat Royal"... becomes an unlikely recruit for the British Navy, takes passage to America and navigates her way through a fiendish plot to do away with Lord Francis, heir to a dukedom. From the grand Assembly Rooms of Bath to the wilds of a new frontier, Ca...
Magical Mallins Wood is under threat from developers. Unknown to everyone, the wood is the home of the last gorgon, a creature so deadly she can kill with a look. Only a handful of people know that she still exists. Col and his mother are among them, and both are determined to save her, and the f...
When eleven-year-old Connie is sent to live with her eccentric aunt by the sea, she’s not expecting anything great—not to make friends with Col, the coolest guy in town, and certainly not to discover that mythical creatures still exist, that an ancient society has protected them for centuries, an...
It's a long hot summer. Temperatures are soaring and a strange creature has been spotted on Dartmoor. Connie Lionheart and her friends soon discover that the creature is a chimera. When it attacks Connie, leaving her gravely wounded, Col and Rat must rescue her from hospital: she needs treatment ...
Snow built up on the pitched roofs and would periodically fall in little avalanches into the castle courtyard. The stones around the well were slick with ice, the chain dripping icicles. The white mountains would have been beautiful if Ramil had not felt they looked like the bars of his prison. H...
Billy rowed us out to the Phoenix, whistling tunelessly between his teeth. The ship lay just downstream of London Bridge in the middle of the river. From the lights and activity on deck it looked suspiciously as if the captain was preparing to weigh anchor. ‘Hurry, Billy,’ I urged. ‘Don’t fret, C...
Having changed into a clean gown of blue-sprigged muslin, I jumped down the stairs, skirts kicking up with every bound, fired by my new resolve. The outline of my plan was already taking shape. All it would need was a little money and a lot of guts. Well, guts I had aplenty. That just left, Reade...
A fresh candle, two cups, a coffee pot and a basket of bread stood on a barrel. I guessed that meant it was morning. Rubbing the sleep from my eyes, my recollections of the previous night returned and with them my fear. It was hard to know exactly what to think or feel. This wasn’t about me, as J...