Tag: Book Reviews
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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 ... -
SOFTWARE by Rudy Rucker (BOOK REVIEW)
“Intellectually he had always known it was possible. A robot, or a person, has two parts: hardware and software. The hardware is the actual physical material ... -
THE WALL by John Lanchester 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 ... -
BROTHER RED by Adrian Selby – BOOK REVIEW
I’ve been hugely enthusiastic about Adrian Selby’s previous work – the enigmatic, epistolic Snakewood and the harrowing, heartfelt Winter Road – so it shouldn’t be a ... -
THE SONG OF THE SYCAMORE by Edward Cox (BOOK REVIEW)
“The dead call me Sycamore,” I told the storm above Old Castle. “I am their Shepherd” The Song of the Sycamore by Edward Cox is a ... -
ORDERS OF BATTLE by Marko Kloos (BOOK REVIEW)
Reviewer’s Note: As this is a review for the seventh book in Marko Kloos’s ongoing Frontlines series, it will contain minor spoilers for overarching story elements ... -
BLACKTHORN WINTER by Liz Williams (BOOK REVIEW)
‘“What, you mean they aren’t human?” “No, I mean they aren’t people. Not like you and me. Well, not like me, anyway. They look like us, ... -
THE OLD DRIFT by Namwali Serpell (BOOK REVIEW)
“Indeed, the workings of animal biology seemed to mirror the workings of human society. Joseph’s ecology lecturer introduced the students to three terms for how organisms ...
