Book Review: The Rose Bargain
May 11, 2025
In this blend of romance & dark magic, Ivy Benton’s debut season is more than just a search for a suitor, it’s a fight for survival.
In this blend of romance & dark magic, Ivy Benton’s debut season is more than just a search for a suitor, it’s a fight for survival.
The recipes all work and the vignettes are joyful and serve as a wonderful entrée to the recipes themselves.
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.
Affecting, politically pertinent and visually pleasing, PUHIA is a publication I read immediately as it arrives in-store.
I couldn’t put this book down! The mystery alongside the love story provides a gripping story I had to learn everything about.
It is no chilling horror, but rather a comedy that shows there really IS a bored-gay-werewolf in us all. It crams a lot in such a small book.
An absolutely rip-roaring tale full of laughter, joy, tragedy, and at its centre, two drunken potters fumbling their way through it all.
A quirky, tragic examination of a real-life father and daughter relationship. Funny, sad and wonderfully real.
Abraham has created a compelling collection of queer voices. A powerful book to dip in and out of. A must read!
A truly fun, heartwarming romp with some low-key body horror thrown in for flavor. Perfect for anybody feeling a little lost in life.
The quiet town holds more than just family secrets when whispers of the Loch Ness Monster pull her into a centuries-old mystery.
I frequently found myself pausing to re-read certain passages, wanting to soak it in deeply, giving it the sensitive reflection it deserves.
What makes this novel shine is Viv herself. She feels like a real teenager, impulsive and struggling with the weight of her decisions.
Full of nightmare-inducing horror and truly marvellous character work, this is a delight for all to behold.
McCann’s writing veers off in different directions, gathering glimpses of our world standing on the knife edge of thriving & falling apart.
Simultaneously a biography, an inside story of the manga industry and a look at how Junji Ito creates his stories, this is a fascinating read.
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.
This little book is so atmospheric and vivid you can practically taste the sweat and smoke of all the blood-soaked dive bars.