Being loved unconditionally and truly belonging are two of the greatest gifts anyone can ever receive. They bolster the heart, restore the soul and they are utterly alien to Oxnard Matheson, protagonist of TJ Klune’s latest masterpiece, Wolfsong. Not because he hasn’t been loved at all – he has always Continue Reading
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Book review: Sincerely, Me by Julietta Henderson
There’s something entirely and innately satisfying about reading about someone who’s life has not even gone remotely where they want it to and who manages through sheer force of will or happy circumstance to turn things around. Maybe it’s because that so rarely happens in real life, at least to Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
SNAPSHOTIn a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe. The day Continue Reading
Book review: When Franny Stands Up by Eden Robins
Discovering who you actually are, assuming you are bothering to look in the first place (not everyone is), is one of life’s great gifts. It’s not always the easiest of things to uncover sometimes, and can involves a huge amount of blood, sweat and tears and challenges to who you Continue Reading
Book review: The Storyteller’s Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal
Belonging somewhere or with someone, or a group of someones preferably since community is integral to the human condition, cuts to the core of what it means to be alive. We all know those sage observances about no one being an island and it taking a village to raise someone, Continue Reading
Book review: Moths by Jane Hennigan
Copy for review provided by Angry Robot Books via NetGalley – publication due 14 March 2023. Humanity is balanced on a razor-thin knife edge. We may not always, or often, think so as we rush from train to work to lunch to evening function and on and on, but the Continue Reading
Book review: Beach Read by Emily Henry
When the rubber hits the road in life, it’s hard, if not damn near impossible, to believe that any of the mess and damage can be fixed. Especially by love, which, if you go with the popularly romantic notion that it’s gooey, soft and ephemerally nice, is barely able to Continue Reading
Book review: The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding by Holly Ringland
If you have ever felt the full and unyielding grip of grief, you will be all too well acquainted with how impenetrably tight and suffocating it can feel. When it has its hold upon you, it becomes near impossible to imagine what it would like to be free from it; Continue Reading
All the action and intrigue a realpolitik-loving heart could want: Thoughts on Jack Ryan (S3)
When it comes to escapist entertainment, political action thrillers are in a gloriously batshit crazy class all of their very own. Employing only the loosest of adherence to the real world, although ostensibly a stalwart reflection of it, these gripping stories of life behind the veneer of political and diplomatic Continue Reading
Book review: All About Evie by Matson Taylor
When you fall in love with a character from a book, your fondest wish is to stay with them, enjoy their company and see where they go next. It’s a natural reaction to any character who leaps off the page and into your heart, or indeed any person you meet Continue Reading