A nook for book reviews
As a long-time fan of Joe Abercrombie’s work, I was excited to sink my teeth into this latest installment in his Age of Madness trilogy. Immediately following the cliffhanger of events in A Little Hatred, The Trouble with Peace is an intricately woven, stunning sequel and worthy successor to the first that has no issue […]
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*Thank you to Orbit for sending me this book, in exchange for an honest review! Alix E.Harrow’s latest novel, The Once and Future Witches, is – to put it simply – utterly spellbinding. Following the stories of three sisters, Bella, Agnes, and James Juniper Eastwood, Harrow ties in witching and the sister’s attempts to reclaim […]
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Sometimes, you stumble across a book that has such an intriguing, batsh*t concept, you can’t help but want to delve immediately into the book. That is what Tasmyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth is – her debut novel and the first one as part of the Locked Tomb trilogy. With a tagline that really speaks for […]
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“Explore science, nature, hopes and dreams with your little one in this sweet tale of becoming.” *Thank you to Ghost and Ribbon for sending me this copy in exchange for an honest review! #Ad The first thing that struck me about this book, aimed at inquisitive young children about the facts of life and where […]
Read More*Thank you to Ghost and Ribbon for sending me an advanced copy to review! #Ad There’s something historically poignant and rich about this book. As stated in the preface, this is a book that aims to share the “magic” of food, written to honour the life of Elma Rose Francis whose memory and inspiration lives […]
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*Thank you to Ghost & Ribbon for sending me this book, in exchange for an honest review! #ad As we find ourselves in increasingly strange circumstances, largely advised to stay indoors with little human contact, more and more of us have turned to the comforts of cooking to see us through the long stretches of […]
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I know that you should never judge a book by its cover, but when Orbit sent me this in the post and I opened it to see tiny cats in space suits, I already knew that this was going to be a space opera that I would enjoy. “Kidnappers. Alien emperors. Psychic cats. And she’s […]
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“Stephen’s god died a little after noon on the longest day of the year. […] It had never occurred to Stephen or any of the others that a god could die. Such things happened in mythology, not in real life” Paladin’s Grace was a book I stumbled across – much like how Grace encounters Stephen […]
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*Thank you Ghost and Ribbon for this gifted copy of Jessie J’ng’s poetry collection. #Ad Poetry is a genre of literature which has the unique quality of needing so few words to affect us profoundly. Or as Edgar Allen Poe puts it, “poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words”. That idea is precisely […]
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Luke Arnold’s debut novel The Last Smile in Sunder City – the first installment in the Fetch Phillips Archives – is the type of noir fairy-tale so immersive and vivid, you can almost smell the scent of whiskey (or in this case Milkwood, a sugary drink favoured by our protagonist) smothered on the page. Its […]
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