Tag: gifted

Good Grace’s: A Rainy Day Cookbook by Grace Millard

.Reading time 5 minutes.

*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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Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

.Reading time 7 minutes.

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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Manuscripts of the Mind by Jessie J’ng

.Reading time 4 minutes.

*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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The Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold

.Reading time 7 minutes.

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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