Book Review: Insomniacs After School
With soft and dreamy art, stark blacks and gentle shading, the night comes alive as our leading duo explore their town by starlight.
Tag: staff review
Book Review: Raising Hare
I must admit to being skeptical in the beginning but Dalton’s prose is crisp, taut and had me absolutely in her thrall.
Book Review: Manuali’i
The author weaves together ancestral Samoan knowledge and his own lived experience, strengthening the tether between the two.
Book Review: Red Rising
Brown has created not only a very entertaining story, but a solar system of people and technology that was captivating to learn about.
Book Review: Watership Down
A love of the natural world (Watership Down is a real place) enables Adams the storyteller to deeply inhabit the lives of his characters.
Book Review: Wyatt
This was my first cowboy romance and it won’t be the last! It’s a delightful childhood friends-to-lovers story.
Book Review: Biter
Dedicated to showcasing the warm curiosity of love and the often clumsy devotion of desire, this collection is hilarious, erudite and HOT.
Book Review: Flesh
I love authors who write like this, a collection of small moments that lead to an ending that leaves you off-kilter and slightly dazed.
Book Review: When Stars Are Scattered
When Stars Are Scattered is not just a story; it is a powerful testament to the strength and resilience of refugees around the world.
Book Review: Katabasis
This novel is one of the reasons I read. The characters come to life and we, the readers, travel alongside them.
Book Review: Fall in Love, You False Angels
A delightfully goofy, tropey romantic comedy, this manga wormed its way into my heart before I even realised.
Book Review: Detective Gordon: The First Case
This is a lovely gentle story filled with character, humour and some pearls of wisdom. A great first chapter book to read to children.
Book Review: Seven Miracles of Beatrix Holland
Warm, witchy and wonderful! I immediately fell in love with the small town of Skerry Island and its fun, close-knit cast.
Book Review: Garlic and the Vampire
This story is so wholesome! Spooky, adventurous, funny and it has a happy ending! What more could you want in a graphic novel?
Book Review: Neither
Chewing on anything juicy and sour and rich, these poems will roll on your tongue and get stuck in your teeth. DO IT!
Book Review: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
His writing is playful and virtuosic but the impulse to tell a great story is always in the driver’s seat – and pressing the accelerator!
Book Review: All The Young Men
In conservative Arkansas, Coker Burns created a safe space for many queer men during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 1990s.
Book Review: He Taonga te Toka
Some books forget to tell a good story alongside the moral, but this one uses the rock metaphor in a funny, creative and poignant way.
Book Review: A Guide to Rocks
Some books forget to tell a good story alongside the moral, but this one uses the rock metaphor in a funny, creative and poignant way.
Book Review: Endling
While there is grief and despair, her vital and fiercely determined characters push against this darkness by continuing to reach for hope.