Gonzales’ first novel, Only Mostly Devastated, established her as a YA rainbow romance queen, and Perfect on Paper certainly upholds that title. It follows Darcy …
Book review: Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales
Book review: From Here On, Monsters by Elizabeth Bryer
Elizabeth Bryer’s debut novel From Here On, Monsters is an exploration of parallels, doubles, reflections and opposites in words, stories and history. The protagonist Cameron travels to …
Book review: Only rhe Animals by Ceridwen Dovey
The skill and the purpose to reading and writing fiction is the ability to empathise with the inner lives of creatures outside of ourselves. This …
Book review: Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein
This novel was highly-recommended by several of my well-read friends, and the clincher finally came when one of them gave me the book as a …
Book review: Defying Doomsday, ed. Tsana Dolichva
Defying Doomsday is a riveting collection of short stories of individuals with disabilities or chronic illnesses surviving the apocalypse, the premise for the collection being …
Book review: Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh
Julie Koh’s first full-length collection of short stories, Portable Curiosities, is a strange journey through an unsettling landscape of curious characters in familiar but altered …
Book review: The Sinkings by Amanda Curtin
I had very high hopes of this book, and I was not disappointed. Curtin applies her trademark historical research skills lavishly, and although at times …