With a richly evocative, sumptous atmosphere based around a mysterious and magical estate, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride had me captivated. Indigo is a glittering, enchanting woman who almost seems to reside within myths and legends, and we learn about her through two perspectives set at different points in time. The book is beautifully […]
Trigger warnings: domestic abuse, physical abuse, attempted rape There’s no denying that It Ends With Us is an iconic, important read that definitely cements Colleen Hoover as an author of choice. However, as I’ve felt before for a long time, I do think readers need to go into her books with caution – given the heavy handed […]
This whole series makes me feel like I’m having drunken flashbacks, but I somehow find that enjoyable. If you’re ever looking for a series to really challenge the brain cells, well you’ve found it in The Locked Tomb. Gideon the Ninth made me feel dumb but I still loved all of Gideon’s one-liners and putting […]
Just finished The First to Die at the End, and I’m left with some really profound thoughts about life and the way you are living it. Which is exactly how I felt after reading the first book, They Both Die at the End. For those of you who haven’t read the first book, the series is about […]
So I’m not usually one for WW2 books, I find them bleak and depressing (and rightly so). However, I was willing to give The Killing Code a go, because it features female sapphic codebreakers – and it’s also written by Ellie Marney, whose writing I adore. The Killing Code features sapphic female codebreakers during the […]
Here I was thinking that perhaps dark academia wasn’t for me, but then The Atlas Six comes along, and satisfies my craving for a deeply philosophical novel centered around magic. From the six different magicians, to the competition racing to the death, the philosophical discussions about life, knowledge and magic, this was everything I wanted and more. […]
With a title like Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution, you can already tell that this isn’t going to be an easy, quick read. The title already reads like an encyclopaedia or PhD thesis and the subject matter already stretches the brain. Let me tell you, I […]
Having enjoyed The Love Hypothesis last year and the STEMinist Novellas a few months ago, I was extremely excited for Love on the Brain. And I did enjoy the reading experience but I had one major criticism – it was the same characters and tropes as in all four of Ali Hazelwood’s other books. Love on the Brain follows Bee, […]
The Bridge Kingdom (5 stars) The Good Things: I loved this book so much. It gripped me so completely from the beginning that I barely took any notes. I was prepared to give it five stars from the very first chapter Loved the slowburn romance between Aren and Lara. The tension was good. There were […]