Grief. There’s so many different ways to experience it. There’s the shock, where someone who you loved is now gone, leaving behind emptiness. There’s the anger and the regret, wishing you spent more time with them and wondering why they were taken away. Then there’s the quieter type of grief, where you just need some […]
Love, Ghosts & Nose Hair is an Australian young adult book that is written entirely in verse. It’s short but sweet and packs quite an emotional punch, despite it having quite a simplistic story. The book focuses on family and grief, which are two of my favourite themes to read about. While the story may seem […]
Oh man, this book has so much potential but unfortunately it fell short for me. Set in 1900s Boston with a touch of the supernatural, it sounded like a diverse The Diviners (which I loved), but there wasn’t that much happening in the plot to keep me interested. There were many elements of the book I […]
The One Memory of Flora Banks was a book that I was extremely excited to pick up because of its intriguing synopsis and the amnesia aspect of the book. However, it fell way short of my expectations and I didn’t enjoy the reading experience at all. Flora has anterograde amnesia and cannot create new memories. Her last […]
This review contains minor spoilers for Truthwitch. Check out my review for Truthwitch here. Witty banter, elemental powers and a strong sibling bond were things that I loved about Truthwitch, and things that I was looking forward to in Windwitch. However with a super slow pace, barely there banter and no scenes between Safi and Isseult, Windwitch barely resembled what […]
Three women, from three different timeframes have only one thing in common – they are condemned for being witches. From 17th Century Germany, to 18th Century Europe, and modern day Australia in a small regional town, we hear from Veronica, Katherine and Paisley. They are each teenage girls with their own hopes and dreams, from worrying about […]
While this book was a fun, magical ride, it also didn’t really impress me that much. The premise is super unique, as the main character Amy discovers that she can jump into the stories of books, and her family has a duty to preserve those stories. The setting is on a picturesque island, away from […]
I love fluffy contemporary romance novels and Lisette’s Paris Notebook looked extremely promising. It has an extremely cute cover and was screaming Anna and the French Kiss at me. However, I found this novel to be a pretty big disappointment and did not enjoy the reading experience at all. There isn’t really any other word to describe the plot […]
Is there an aspect of your life that you’re not proud of and you wish you could forget? If you had the chance to erase any of your memories for a better life, would you do it? In More Happy Than Not, the experimental Leteo procedure is designed to make people forget things. It’s used to make […]