Valentine’s Day book review: The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

(courtesy Hachette Australia) Not all romantic comedies (rom-coms) are created equal. Yes, they all share certain near-inviolable tropes and tick a certain set of boxes that guarantee love will win the day no matter what comes against it, but it’s the deployment of these expected elements that influences whether the Continue Reading

Book review: Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

(courtesy Hachette Australia) Reading Heather Fawcett’s lustrously beautifully, funny and charming series centred on dryadologist (someone who studies fairies) Emily Wilde is to be transported to a rich world which is lightly escapist and darkly foreboding all at once. Her previous novels in the series, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries Continue Reading