My boyfriend got this book for me for my birthday, which means that I got to read something I probably wouldn’t have picked up otherwise. While this was no Hamnet, it did provide a lot of food for thought. Interior Chinatown shows what happens when you try to define your identity through its relationship with… Read More Book Review: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Thanks to The Last Girl to Die, I realised that I hadn’t read the second book in the D.I. Callanach series. So I decided to let Perfect Prey skip to the front of the TBR series and borrowed it from the library. Perfect Prey starts off with two ghastly murders – a young man eviscerated… Read More Book Review: Perfect Prey by Helen Fields
I’m sorry but I NEED to talk about the ending of this book, so please do not read this review if you intend to read this book and don’t want it spoiled!! It’s been years since I read a Jodi Picoult book (might be a decade, actually) and my main impression of her is that… Read More Book Review: Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult [Major Spoilers]
“in the cold light of suspicion, every kindness became a threat; a goodness made sinister.” Sometimes, you don’t realise that you need to read a book to feel. I’m pretty sure I picked up The Furies because it had spent enough time on the TBR list (thanks Orangutan Librarian for bringing this book to my… Read More Book Review: The Furies by Katie Lowe
I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned this on the blog before, but one of the first fiction podcasts I listened to was Rabbits. And I enjoyed Rabbits so much that I ended up listening to everything by Pacific Northwest Stories (PNWS) – Tanis, The Black Tapes, The Last Movie, and Faerie. So you can probably… Read More Book Review: Rabbits by Terry Miles
I heard about Every Heart a Doorway when Sam from The Book in Hand wrote a post about 7 atmospheric books to read and I thought it sounded really good! It took a little while, but I finally got around to reading this. Every Heart a Doorway is a novella about children who have fallen… Read More Book Review: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Have you ever started a book because you thought it was one thing and it turned out to be another? This is what happened to me with The Bone Fire and to be honest, I’m not sure what I feel about this. I thought that The Bone Fire was a fantasy that starts in a… Read More Book Review: The Bone Fire by György Dragomán
The annoying thing about one book having two different titles is that you’ll end up misunderstanding how many library copies there are. I searched for this book under “Darling Rose Gold” and thought that there weren’t many copies available, but then I searched by author name and found it in the library I was visiting!… Read More Book Review: The Recovery of Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel
I’ve been hearing a lot about this book but because of the subject matter, I’ve always been a bit scared to read it. And then it was picked as my book’s club next book. My Dark Vanessa is the story of Vanessa, from Vanessa’s point of view. Her life at thirty-two isn’t great – she’s… Read More Book Review: My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
It feels a bit weird to be calling a Victorian-era book a page turner, but The Woman in White is definitely one. I got this partly because it was cheap and partly because it was famous, so I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. The Woman in White starts with Walter Hartright, getting… Read More Book Review: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins