Book Reviews
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COMPOSITE CREATURES by Caroline Hardaker (BOOK REVIEW)
Composite Creatures by Caroline Hardaker is a thought-provoking dystopian debut which continuously questions what it truly means to be alive in a dying world. Over ... -
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin – Book Review
George Orr is afraid of falling asleep. When he dreams a particular kind of dream, what Le Guin titles an ‘effective’ dream, Orr wakes up to ... -
TRIGGERNOMETRY and ADVANCED TRIGGERNOMETRY by Stark Holborn (BOOK REVIEW)
The novella/short novel format seems to have a natural affinity for tales of the wild west from my early school experience reading Shane (38,000 words) by ... -
CLADE by James Bradley – THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
This is an occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing. Having taken a career break from secondary schooling ... -
EXODUS OF GNOMES by Demi Harper (BOOK REVIEW)
My experience of LitRPG is still pretty limited having sampled a couple of SPFBO examples but only read two through to completion, the first being Demi ... -
THE SECOND BELL by Gabriela Houston (BOOK REVIEW)
The Second Bell by debut author Gabriela Houston is a beautiful atmospheric blend of Polish folklore, coming of age and dark fantasy. The story centres around ... -
ONE DAY ALL THIS WILL BE YOURS by Adrian Tchaikovsky (BOOK REVIEW)
This is only my second time reading a story by Adrian Tchaikovsky but I’ve already begun to see how versatile, bizarre and wonderfully imaginative this author ... -
THE SHADOW OF THE GODS by John Gwynne (BOOK REVIEW)
Fantasy fans, John Gwynne is back and this time he’s brought all the monsters with him. The Shadow of the Gods is the first book ... -
THE SWIMMERS by Marian Womack (BOOK REVIEW)
“I have since understood how storytelling works, what it does with your senses. It was as if they somehow became entangled. The meaning of the story ... -
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine – Book Review
A Desolation Called Peace makes half or more of the sci-fi works I’ve read over the last few years seem woefully incompetent. Arkady Martine’s second book ...