Book Review: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
This book will leave you feeling empowered, with each twist offering a subtly layered critique on the hypocrisy of the world around us.
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Book Review: Wuthering Heights
In Brontë’s world, unfiltered and extravagant behaviour fuelled by high emotions has brothers and sisters constantly crossing each other.
Book Review: What Feelings Do At Night
This perfect pairing of image and text hits the spot between comic and poignant, and contains insightful reflections on emotional qualities.
Book Review: The Children of Time
Tchaikovsky’s ability to humanize but still make completely alien these otherworldly spiders is a feat to behold.
Book Review: The Barefoot Investor
Would recommend to anyone who feels lost financially and wants a road map – and a few laughs along the way.
Book Review: Wintergirls
It may give those who have never dealt with this kind of beast a glimmer of insight into what it’s like. Read this book, it’s good.
Book Review: Ultimate Invasion
Hickman, a seasoned professional, is working at full capacity to breathe life into an exciting and fresh take on the heroes we know and love.
Book Review: Glasgow Boys
Glasgow Boys isn’t afraid to tackle tough topics head-on. It’s a heartfelt, honest and powerful debut that stays with you.
Book Review: Is A River Alive?
Heavy on the adjectives, amiable, exercising incredible patience with determined and dedicated scientists from around the world.
Book Review: Captain Danger and the Stupid Shadow
Witty and whacky, this early reader is illustrated by the author in a bold, graphic style that includes beautiful double-page spreads.
Book Review: If Not For My Baby
A sweet, slow, contemporary romance. A must read if you enjoy strong, sensitive MMCs and bubbly FMCs who struggle to open up.
Book Review: Stonewitch
Full of folklore, friendship dynamics and magical drama, these are excellent for 8-12 year old fans of Crookhaven and Enid Blyton.
Book Review: Homecooked
The only cookbook I’ve read cover to cover! Corry’s fun, conversational writing makes this cookbook a delight to read.
Book Review: Jigsaw: A Puzzle in the Post
Graham’s illustrations with their gentle washes of colour perfectly complement the Kelly’s journey of hope, persistence, and slowing down.
Book Review: Crookhaven: The Thieves Revenge
A brilliant finale, it does a great job of tying together storylines from the previous books while still delivering exhilarating plot twists!
Book Review: Iron and Embers
The plot was engaging, the romance had me super invested, and the world-building was great! I’ll definitely be reading the sequel.
Book Review: Half His Age
A strand of humour runs through the text, & readers of McCurdy’s autobiography will recognise her habit of plainly reporting bleak incidents.
Book Review: Workhorse
A set of highly unlikable characters who do inappropriate things to stay relevant. Sounds horrible, but this book will put a spell on you.
Book Review: Steelheart
Easy to read and fast paced, this novel has all the excitement and tension of an action movie, but in book form.
Book Review: An Ethical Guide to Murder
Fast-paced and punchy, it becomes difficult to not feel complicit as the problematic heroine, Thea, navigates her life