Book Review: Almond
October 26, 2024
Almond broadened my understanding of what it means to be an emotional being and made me question; what is it, to love, to feel, to act?
Almond broadened my understanding of what it means to be an emotional being and made me question; what is it, to love, to feel, to act?
Evocative, tender, and deeply moving, this story will linger in your heart long after you have turned the final page.
The main trio constitute more proof – if any was needed – that Erdrich writes some of the best young adults in contemporary fiction.
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Engrossing and slow-building, this left me with a similar feeling as a well-told true crime podcast: half the story is in the context.
The eloquently evoked sights, smells and turns of phrase serve to amplify the silence and inhibition that underpin all the characters.
Realistic and disgusting details of life are the showstoppers, as is the contrasting glory of the American wilderness.
Intermezzo can be described as the next episode in Sally Rooney’s series of novels about young adults and adult-adults figuring out what to say to each other.
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.
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