Book Review: Queens of Sarmiento Park
June 12, 2025
With complex friendships and bonds, the house is boundless in love and strange connections & their new addition changes each of their lives.
With complex friendships and bonds, the house is boundless in love and strange connections & their new addition changes each of their lives.
By dropping enough breadcrumbs to give the discerning reader the clues they need, The Book of Guilt reveals its secrets with perfect pacing.
Eng is a mesmerizing writer – his graceful, atmospheric prose weaving characters, storylines, times, and places with aching poignancy.
The longer we spend in The Factory, the more strange and frightening the place becomes, seething with a sinister coercion.
The morally complex characters, intricate lore, and evocative prose make Faebound an absolutely unforgettable read.
Adichie uses an intimate, even confessional tone to create immersive portraits of four women seeking a clearer understanding of their lives.
Slice of life, literary fiction, psychological thriller and a few others are all woven into one beautiful piece. Not a stitch out of place.
Ngarewa’s writing is sensory and atmospheric, giving attention to moments of humanity in bleak and divisive circumstances.
Arden seamlessly intertwines historical fiction with the supernatural, creating a world that feels both chilling and heartbreakingly real.
An absolutely rip-roaring tale full of laughter, joy, tragedy, and at its centre, two drunken potters fumbling their way through it all.
I frequently found myself pausing to re-read certain passages, wanting to soak it in deeply, giving it the sensitive reflection it deserves.
McCann’s writing veers off in different directions, gathering glimpses of our world standing on the knife edge of thriving & falling apart.
This is true community: with chaos and contradictions, dubious motivations, skirmishes and secrets, sitting alongside unity and cooperation.
This book contains joy and sadness and complex, indecipherable feelings. Reading it felt a lot like being seen.
Full of the horrors of late-stage capitalism, Birnam Wood also manages to be bitingly funny – especially in part one.
If you like your books cozy, look elsewhere! This author delights in voicing the cynical, sinister attitudes that lie just below the surface.
Matthews perfectly encapsulates the struggle of establishing boundaries with family members– and does so with heart-warming hilarity.
A stealthily affecting novel exploring the uneven politics of care, caring and carelessness, centered around the residents of Victory Park.
Don’t be deceived by this slender little volume – it’s chock-full of action, adventure, romance, violence, hilarity, grit and destiny.
Both funny and deeply sad, reading this is like watching a crash in slow motion – it’s deliciously addictive and hard to look away.