A lush and aesthetic YA Gothic fantasy. Warning: contains spoilers for the first book in this duology, Lakesedge Forestfall is Lyndall Clipstone’s haunting, high-drama conclusion …
Book review: Forestfall by Lyndall Clipstone
Book review: Unnecessary Drama by Nina Kenwood
A delightful YA rom-com about moving out and growing up. Nina Kenwood’s second novel, Unnecessary Drama, is about eighteen-year-old Brooke, who has just left home …
Book review: A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
A Lesson in Vengeance is a slow-burning, Sapphic dark academia story from Victoria Lee In Victoria Lee’s A Lesson in Vengeance, eighteen-year-old Felicity Morrow has …
Book review: The Cast Aways of Harewood Hall
Karen Herbert’s sophomore novel, The Cast Aways of Harewood Hall, is a delightful, almost sitcom-style mystery about the residents, staff, and animals of the titular …
Book review: The Stellar Snow Job by Marie Howalt
Marie Howalt’s The Stellar Snow Job is the first novella in the Colibri Investigations series. It follows Richard Hart, an ex-military private investigator, and his …
Book review: The Brink by Holden Sheppard
Adolescents reach the terrifying edge of everything they’ve ever known in Holden Sheppard’s The Brink Holden Sheppard’s sophomore novel The Brink is a tension-filled, hormone-fuelled, …
Book review: Every Version of You by Grace Chan
An exploration of the spaces and boundaries between digital and physical selves. Grace Chan’s sci fi debut novel Every Version of You uses a simple …
Book review: Stone Town by Margaret Hickey
Big city problems and small town politics collide in Hickey’s second rural crime novel Stone Town is an Australian rural crime novel set in rural …
Book review: The Path of Thorns by A.G. Slatter
A lush dark fairy tale set in Slatter’s Sourdough world. The Path of Thorns begins with the arrival of our heroine, Asher Todd, at the …
Book Review: If We Were Villains by ML Rio
A slow-burning, Shakespeare-drenched, dark academia mystery. ML Rio’s If We Were Villains was first published in 2017 but has recently surged in popularity thanks to …