Tag: fantasy
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A Mother’s Love Song
The Whale’s Last Song by Joanne Fedler It’s a new year, fresh and shiny with potential, so I thought we could start off with one of the most gorgeous, hopeful books. Something whose influence carried me through the last few months of last year. I have found it very hard to describe what this book…
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Oblique Conversations
Nuanced, immersive, and macabre. This book delivers so much more than the first. Settle down for a long discussion of what it all meant and why I loved it.
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Too Many Themes
A queer, Jewish, immigrant story that falls victim to a confused vision and a muddled structure.
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Orgasmic Descriptions of Food
This book had so much potential. An engaging misanthrope protagonist, a delightfully anachronistic world, an intriguing premise. And it wasted it all with a plot that went nowhere.
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Labyrinthine Turns of the Internal Mind
Literary fiction at its finest. A cant-put-down book that holds a mirror to the world while holding the reader captivated.
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The Power of Dark Academia
An amazing story that explores complex morality, faith and complex queer relationship dynamics all a setting dripping with gothic horror. It may be the best book I have read this year.
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Female Oppression and the Omegaverse
Exploring female oppression and systemic gender bias through the lens of a world without women, which makes our everyday lives look super ridiculous.
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A Nest of Themes
A delicious fairytale I want to live in forever which explores magic, class and the many things home can mean to different people.
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Fan-fiction Scraped off the Internet
Book Review of A Taste of Gold & Iron by Alexandra Rowland. I cant believe a publisher picked this up. It lacks structure, character and worldbuilding. What a waste of paper.
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Pointless Fan-Service
Book Review of The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera. A vacuous cash-grab of a story which takes 500 pages to say not much of anything.