book review | dear mothman by robin gow

bookshop.org | waterstones | goodreads After Noah's best friend, Lewis - another trans boy, and the only person Noah was out to - dies in a car accident, Noah begins to leave notes for Mothman, who Lewis believed lived in the woods behind their homes. Their combined research project into Mothman becomes Noah's alone, as …

book review | nothing but the rain by naomi salman

I received a free copy of this novella through Edelweiss+ from Macmillan in exchange for an honest review. The predicted UK/US release date is 14.03.23. 'Guess what the weather's like today! Welcome to Aloisville, rainest town in the rainiest state. Population: we don't recall.' Naomi Salman’s Nothing But the Rain is a short, tense novella …

quickfire reviews | in the cut, the sluts, & more

The books reviewed in this post all provide an individual approach to the relationship between brutality and art. Unsettling, dark, and at times incredibly funny, all of these pieces of work have stuck with me in how they've tested me as both a reader and as a person, and I hope at least one stands …

book review | horseman by christina henry

Ben Van Brunt is the grandchild of Brom Bones and Katrina Tassel. Raised on rumour and gossip, Ben isn’t so sure the Headless Horseman is the myth his grandfather has made him out to be. When a child turns up dead, rid of both head and hands, Ben’s previously safe world in Sleepy Hollow – …

book review | the midnight club by christopher pike

Christopher Pike's The Midnight Club was an unexpected hit for me. If it weren't for the fact that it is soon to be a Netflix series, created by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong with a different director at the helm every other episode, I most likely would have never picked it up. It's the kind …

book review | the doll’s alphabet by camilla grudova

Camilla Grudova’s The Doll’s Alphabet is an excellent collection. Interacting with similar motifs and themes across the thirteen stories, she demonstrates just how far you can stretch a concept and still have it work. Dystopian settings, feminist revolutions, strange births, sewing machines – each story is rendered beautifully by Grudova’s prose. Readers are kept close …

book review | strange weather in tokyo by hiromi kawakami

strange weather in tokyo by hiromi kawakami hiromi kawakami's strange weather in tokyo is a novel that packs a punch. we follow tsukiko, a 38 year old woman who works in an office and lives alone, after she reunites with one of her former high school teachers, a man she still refers to as 'sensei', …

three thriller reviews | lock every door, night film, eight perfect murders

lock every door by riley sager riley sager's lock every door is one of the two thrillers published in 2019 that i constantly mistake for one another: the other is the turn of the key by ruth ware. i only confused them thanks to their similar covers, and the fact that both follow a woman …

non-fiction review | i am, i am, i am by maggie o’farrell

I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell Goodreads In Maggie O’Farrell’s memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am, she recounts seventeen experiences she’s had with death-- from childbirth to brushes with murder, as well as her second hand experience as she attempts to protect her chronically ill daughter from danger. There’s a lot …

book review | wilder girls by rory power

Wilder Girls by Rory Power Goodreads | Wordery It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange …