Tag: review
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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.
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Identity in the Face of Grief
Book Review of Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo. A character-rich exploration of grief and identity in a world full of strange juxtapositions.
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Making a man out of you
Subverting the “army will make a man out of you trope” but make it queer. A Real Life story about being gay in Apartheid South Africa.
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What Living Fully Really Means
A gorgeously realised exploration of what living fully really means. Set in a world where we follow two young men on their last day of life.
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Building a Following
The best resource I have seen so far for creatives and introverts trying to build a following and get their art known.