Historical
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THE WINTER GARDEN by Alexandra Bell (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: Death of parents and children, and grief; spousal abuse in all forms; drug use; pregnancy complications and intense postpartum depression. Welcome to the Winter ... -
WENDY, DARLING by A C Wise (BOOK REVIEW
Content warnings: A huge amount of medical abuse and gaslighting; depictions of abusive asylums; mentions of suicide; mentions of sexual assault. I don’t tend to consider ... -
A MAN LIES DREAMING & THE LUNACY COMMISSION by Lavie Tidhar (BOOK REVIEWS)
“But there you are wrong, for this is no longer the world you knew, the world any of us knew. That world is dead, everything is ... -
BRIGHTFALL by Jaime Lee Moyer (BOOK REVIEW)
When I first heard that there was going to be a magical Robin Hood story that picked up years after the heyday of the Merry Men, ... -
MARION LANE AND THE MIDNIGHT MURDER by T. A. Willberg (BOOK REVIEW)
‘I know who they’ve accused of White’s murder,’ she whispered. Her voice sounded unfamiliar, even to herself. Thin and worn, like her nerves. Marion Lane and ... -
Sistersong by Lucy Holland – Book Review
Published by Macmillan Genre: historical fantasy Pages: 416 (Hardcover) Format: ebook Review Copy: Thanks to Black Crow PR for approving me on NetGalley. In Sistersong, Lucy ... -
SISTERSONG by Lucy Holland (BOOK REVIEW)
“I wander so long, it feels as though I’ve crossed some hidden boundary. I’ve left our world for theirs – the nameless land where goddesses sing ... -
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow—Book Review
Published by: Orbit. Genres: Historical Fantasy. Pages: 528. Format: Paperback. Copy: Purchased at my local sci-fi bookstore. Support local, folks! With Alix E. Harrow’s new novel, ... -
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton – Book Review
The Devil and the Dark Water is nothing short of a remarkably turbulent mystery from Stuart Turton, an author who has firmly established himself as a ... -
BEOWULF: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley (BOOK REVIEW)
So. Here’s the thing about Beowulf. A lot of people have bad high school memories of reading an archaic, basic myth about a dude whose sole ...
