Tag: Book Reviews
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THE FALL OF BABEL by Josiah Bancroft (BOOK REVIEW)
The Fall of Babel is the stunningly imaginative end to an amazing journey. Josiah Bancroft has crafted for himself and his readers the most exceptional and ... -
BEASTS AND BEAUTY: DANGEROUS TALES by Soman Chainani (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: Traditional fairy tale grimness, including violence, death and murder, child abuse, forced marriage, and so on; racism and colourism. Nothing is graphically described. You ... -
THE ACTUAL STAR by Monica Byrne (BOOK REVIEW)
“The drink, the drums, the dance: as ever, these were the engines of the alteration of ordinary time. Xibalba felt so close, the liminal, the numinous, ... -
A SPINDLE SPLINTERED by Alix E. Harrow (BUDDY READ BOOK REVIEW)
let’s not pretend girls with swords don’t get shit done… The Buddy Read Dream Team (Nils and myself, Beth) are back. Nils managed to get her ... -
MASTER OF DJINN by P. Djèlí Clark (BOOK REVIEW)
Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark is the first full length novel set in his alternate Cairo universe. Other works set in this same universe ... -
TERMINAL BOREDOM by Izumi Suzuki (BOOK REVIEW)
Izumi Suzuki – Terminal Boredom (2021, translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, and Helen O’Horan) “All the shitty stuff stops ... -
FURY OF A DEMON by Brian Naslund (BOOK REVIEW)
Please note this review may contain mild spoilers for Blood of an Exile and Sorcery of a Queen. The power has shifted and as Empress ... -
THE CITY OF BRASS and THE KINGDOM OF COPPER by S. A. Chakraborty (BOOK REVIEWS)
“Fog shrouded the great city of brass, obscuring its towering minarets of sandblasted glass and hammered metal and veiling its golden domes. Rain seeped off the ... -
GUN ISLAND by Amitav Ghosh THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
This is an (increasingly) occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing doing a PhD project at Queen’s University ... -
THE ART OF SPACE TRAVEL AND OTHER STORIES by Nina Allan (BOOK REVIEW)
“I begin to understand that his is what time travel actually is: we can each of us go back in time a little. We extend a ...
