Tag: review
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Fireside Anecdotes
Wolhuter was the very first ranger of what would become Kruger National Park. This book is a selection of fascinating tales of a wild life in the last untamed bush of South Africa.
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Disappointing Postscript
A very short masterclass in why stories need conflict. My substantial love for the original could not blind me to the pointlessness of this story.
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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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Where did the fossils go?
A fictional peak into the life of renown palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey. An imaginative exploration of the relationships possible between women, old and young.
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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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Literally Lost
A book review for Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon in which I freely admit I have no idea what this was about or how to read literary fiction.
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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.
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An Enjoyable Classic
Book Review of Circles in a Forest by Dalene Matthee. A modern classic that is eminently readable, with complex relationships and human hubris.