Book Review: How It Works Out
September 17, 2024
Intimate & sophisticated at times and just straight up weird in others, it gives the vibe of being written in blood and glitter gel pen.
Intimate & sophisticated at times and just straight up weird in others, it gives the vibe of being written in blood and glitter gel pen.
Powerfully disturbing and unpredictable – this book will stay with me. A fabulous, unromanticised window into being young in New York now.
With moments of necessary darkness, this is a mostly gentle, melancholic story about love in all its forms.
Where lesser novels try to disguise a lack of substance, Pokwatka chooses to explore the inner worlds that multiple realities can mine.
Reading this at the tail-end of winter only served to sharpen the vitality and poignancy of this generous and moving novel.
If you seek out novels for their deep dives into character and emotion, you’ll find a lot to love about this gorgeous, heavy, rhythmic book.
Moving seamlessly across time, it sews together two experiences of queerness; one embraced and one repressed, both equally as devastating.
Clark skilfully explores teenage friendship and manipulation, 2010’s internet culture, and the politics of class with a sharp eye.
Written as a biography of a fictional artist, this book is a wild experiment in history-making & the relationship between fact and fiction.
Through understated prose and a deep care for her characters, Dinan explores the challenges and rewards of being vulnerable.
Written with an unrestrained, clumsily poetic feel, Dogs of Summer transports the reader into the sticky summer of the Canary Islands.
These tales are reminiscent of Dahl’s whimsical storytelling, making them a captivating read for anyone looking to dive back into literature.
The story is full of clever twists. It’s a very sophisticated debut, and I’m hungry to read whatever she writes next.
If you like genre mixing, strangely wholesome narratives, and a deeply human story, The Ministry of Time is for you.
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I felt all the pain of being trapped in a place where you don’t feel accepted, of wanting to be something else for everybody else…
This novel is an ode to queer love, a gripping war story, a treatise on the necessity of poetry and language for the human spirit.
Thought-provoking, unusual, clever and huge fun, I can say with certainty that this will be in my top 5 books of the year, if not number 1!
Examining ideas around women’s agency, this was a charming, almost-period-piece novel, written with skill and read with pleasure.
There’s courtroom drama, mystery, family saga and coming-of-age discoveries, woven together across timelines with skill and care.
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