Booklog 73/2025: Jodi Taylor: Dark Light – Elizabeth Cage #2 – Audiobook

Audiobook read by Zara Ramm

A previous version was read by Julie Teal, but this version is read by Zara Ramm, who always does such a great job on Jodi Taylor's books.

This follows White Silence, in which we met Elizabeth Cage who can read people's 'colours' and learn their moods. It's not exactly mind-reading, but in the first book she was trapped by Dr Sorensen in his clinic, with the idea that she would use her gifts for his ends. She escaped with the help of Michael Jones, sometime spy/shadowy government agent. For a while it all seemed as though her troubles were over, but now she's on the run, and drawn to the picture-perfect village of Greyston, where the women are bound to three sinister standing stones, with a tradition of a year-king, given all he wants and then sacrificed at the end of his year. Cage is lined up to become a member of the village’s evil community, but does her best to subvert their plans, rescue the doomed year king and escape with the help of Jones, his dubious friend, Jerry, and Ibliss, an odd and somewhat fey chap who seems to live wild in the woods.

 

 

 

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Booklog 74/2025: Jodi Taylor: Long Shadows - Elizabeth Cage #3 – Audiobook

This is a re-read via Audible. Audiobook read by Zara Ramm

Elizabeth Cage and Michael Jones are taking a well-earned holiday in Scotland to get away from anything supernatural. Unfortunately, the supernatural seems to come to them. Cage has a ghostly encounter with a burning cottage, and a ghost who looks just like her, and that’s just the start of it. Iblis turns up again, with the powerful yet mysterious Melek, Finally, we get some revelations about who Elizabeth really is, but if I told you, I’d have to shoot you. Let me say that this is well worth reading/lidstening, though you should really start from the beginning of the sequence with White Silence. Once again, Zara Ramm’s narration is impeccable.

Booklog 75/2025: Jodi Taylor: Bad Moon – Elizabeth Cage #4 – Audiobook

This is a re-read via Audible. Audiobook read by Zara Ramm

Cage and Jones are in the process of setting themselves up as supernatural investigators in part of the building owned my Melek and Iblis. They sort out a student ‘haunting’ and a country house lethal ghost, but this also delves more deeply into Elizabeth Cage’s backstory. She finally learns and accepts what has gone before (in a way distant past), but now has to deal with consequences. Why is there blood on her doorstep every morning. What does the note mean by ‘I always send the serpent’? We do finally get some answers amid the questions, and yes, we also get the serpent. Well worth reading the whole sequence – in order. Don’t start with this one. Beautifully read by Zara Ramm.

Booklog 76/2025: Cressida Cowell: How to Train your Dragon – Audiobook

Audiobook read by David Tennant

Included in the Audible three-book collection.

I’m a big fan of the movies, both animated and live-action. But the book and the film are significantly different. There’s no dragon-riding in the book, and Toothless the dragon is small and is an ‘Ordinary’ not a ‘Night Fury’. Nevertheless, the story is sweet and is about the relationship between an ordinary Viking boy, Hiccup, and his stubborn, cranky dragon. David Tennant reads it beautifully.

Booklog 77/2025: Cressida Cowell: How to Be a Pirate – Audiobook

Audiobook read by David Tennant

The second in the How to Train Your Dragon collection on Audible.

The Viking boys move on from dragon-training to lessons in how to be a pirate. Hiccup and his friend Fishlegs are once more tormented by the bigger boys, led by Snotlout. This is all complicated by the search for the buried treasure of Hiccup’s infamous ancestor. It turns out to be more complicated than it looks like it’s going to be, and Toothless is instrumental in saving the day. Read nicely by David Tennant.

 

Booklog 78/2025: Cressida Cowell: How to Speak Dragonese - How to Train Your Dragon #3 – Audiobook

Audiobook read by David Tennant

Hiccup and Fishlegs get lost in the fog on a 'How to Board an Enemy Boat' lesson and accidentally board a Roman galley full of dragon poachers. Hiccup, who understands a bit of Latin, learns that the Romans intend to kidnap the heirs of two opposing tribes (which includes him) in order to set the two tribes agains each other. Unfortunately, though he and Fishlegs escape to tell the tale, Toothless is captured by Romans. Hiccup's dad doesn't listen to his son (what's new?) and falls for the Romans' ploy, so Hiccup and Fishlegs are both kidnapped by Romans. An old enemy, Alvin the Treacherous, resurfaces. now posing as a Roman. Hiccup amd Fishlegs end up in the Roman arena along with the heir to the other tribe.  Yes, they get away but there's a bit of a cliffhanger to lead into the fourth book. Nicely read by David Tennant.