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.
It masterfully weaves present day with 1942 flashbacks, creating a gripping, emotional story of resistance, identity, and survival.
The BEST RECIPES EVER. So easy to follow, everyday ingredients, and easy to make substitutions for different dietary requirements.
This is a warm, funny, and accessible introduction to the work and aroha that goes into protecting taonga species in Aotearoa
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.
These characters love with their entire souls, the kind of love that makes you question if it could ever exist outside of fictional pages.
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.
A hybrid of martial arts and spaghetti westerns, all manner of fascists are calmly dispatched with gratifying efficiency.
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.
Larwood places his loveable underdog into a world of magick, resulting in a playful mash-up of the Last Airbender and English folklore.
This is a delightful tale of the unlikely friendship between a pessimistic, cranky rabbit and a somewhat naive bear with a big heart.
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.