Book Reviews
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THE END WE START FROM by Megan Hunter 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 ... -
THORN by Intisar Khanani (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warning: Heroine’s family vary from emotionally to physically abusive. I first read Thorn in 2018, as a self-published novel, and I loved its smart, wry, ... -
Limited Wish by Mark Lawrence – Book Review
Series: Impossible Times Previous Book in Series: One Word Kill Published by: 47North Genre: Sci-Fi, YA, Time Travel Pages: 222 Format: ebook Purchased Copy from Amazon’s ... -
LUCKENBOOTH by Jenni Fagan (BOOK REVIEW)
A Gothic Walk on the Wild Side In the eighteenth century, Edinburgh was home to the Scottish Enlightenment – the rule of reason, humanism, progress – ... -
WETWARE by Rudy Rucker (BOOK REVIEW)
“’We’re going to start making meat bodies for ourselves, Cobb,’ said Loki. ‘So we can all go down to Earth, and blend in. It’s fair. Humans ... -
THE LICANIUS TRILOGY by James Islington (BOOK REVIEW)
A GREAT DIVE INTO FANTASY The Licanius Trilogy by James Islington is an adventure fantasy trilogy published by Orbit Books. Book One, The Shadow of What ... -
THE FOREVER SEA by Joshua Phillip Johnson (BOOK REVIEW)
“Kindred closed her eyes into the prairie wind, feeling it’s familiar whisper against her cheek, neck, eyelids. The low-slung slant of late-afternoon light might have grown ... -
ALL THE STARS AND TEETH by Adalyn Grace (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: violence and death; mild body horror; blood magic; mention of abusive relationships. Amora is the princess of the island kingdom Visidia, and in order ... -
THE SEEP by Chana Porter (BOOK REVIEW)
“HERE’S OUR IDEA, TRINA, ABOUT WHY HUMANS ARE SO FOCUSED ON THE PAST AND THE FUTURE, ALL AT ONCE. IT’S ABOUT LEARNING! THAT’S THE GREAT GIFT ... -
QUEEN OF COIN AND WHISPERS by Helen Corcoran (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: murder, violence (not graphic). You ever just read a book so perfect for you that it’s like the author wrote it on spec to ...
