Book Reviews
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PIRANESI by Susanna Clarke (BOOK REVIEW)
Piranesi, by award winning author Susanna Clarke, is a novel which left me awed by its charm and beauty. I had heard much praise for her ... -
MRS CALIBAN by Rachel Ingalls (BOOK REVIEW)
“You know it’s wonderful to see another world. It’s entirely unlike anything that has ever come to your thoughts. And everything in it fits. You couldn’t ... -
CRUISING THE COSMERE: The Final Empire (BOOK REVIEW)
I’m back with my Cruising the Cosmere feature! Now that I’ve completed all the published Stormlight Archives novels until Brandon Sanderson releases book five, I’m moving ... -
THE HIGH HOUSE by Jessie Greengrass – THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
This is an occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing, as I pursue a PhD project at Queen’s ... -
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 ... -
COME WITH ME by Ronald Malfi (BOOK REVIEW)
“The small secrets are easy to keep hidden—easier, say, than the big secrets, the whoppers, the infidelities, and closet addictions that, like some underwater beastie that ... -
EARTHLINGS by Ray Star (BOOK REVIEW)
Ray Star’s debut Earthlings is the opening volume in a planned trilogy examining the realities of speciesism. The theme is not so much cli-fi as eco-criticism, ... -
WINTERLIGHT by Kristen Britain (BOOK REVIEW)
Now, if you are like me, and have been reading the Green Rider series at least since the publication of First Rider’s Call, then you are ... -
THE WOLF MILE by C.F. Barrington (BOOK REVIEW)
The Pantheon is a world-wide game, funded by the wealthy elite and talked about in hushed whispers by the general population, a source of unending speculation ... -
THE LORD OF STARIEL by A. J. Lancaster (BOOK REVIEW)
The Lord of Stariel opens with our main character, Hetta Valstar, returning home to her family’s estate after a long absence, so that she can attend her ...
