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 …
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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 2eview: 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 …
Book review: Gallant by V. E. Schwab
Gallant (2022) by V.E. Schwab is a gothic YA novel about Olivia Prior, an orphan who has grown up at Merilance girls’ school. Olivia is …
Book review: The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird by Diane Connell
Diane Connell’s The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird is about twelve-year-old Ricky Bird, whose life is slowly but surely falling apart during the summer that …
Book review: Curiouser, issue two
This collection of strange tales will take you to unexpected places. Issue two of Curiouser Magazine is a collection of nineteen short stories from authors …