Books

A peculiarly awful thing happens when someone you love deeply dies. Suddenly a world that made sense, that had order and purpose, that had joy, and yes, sometimes sadness and angst because what life doesn’t, isn’t any of those things anymore. It just suddenly ISN’T. What do you do with Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTBridgerton meets A Court of Thorns and Roses in this new fantasy-romance series. The story centers around Gemma, Farrin, and Mara Ashbourne, three sisters in a noble magic family who must fight hidden dark forces trying to destroy the Middlemist—an ancient barrier that protects their world from the dangerous realm Continue Reading

A world-weary lament often thrown up, laced with more than a little weary resignation, is that there is nothing truly original under the sun, the product of the fact that though humanity is rich with imagination, that there are so many types of stories that can be told. True though Continue Reading

In a lot of ways, grief essentially stops the clocks on our lives. One minute, our life is humming along with all the usual happy bells and whistles, most importantly with the presence of that very special loved on, and the next? Well, it goes off a neverending cliff into Continue Reading

It is a gloriously rare thing indeed when a book comes along such as The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston which takes a well-worn premise and absolutely and completely upends it in ways both sweetly heartfelt and profoundly moving. When this happens it affirms once again that while there may Continue Reading

It’s a rare book indeed that doesn’t transport you far away from the everyday, taking you on a richly imaginative journey, whether it’s into someone’s life, their innermost thoughts or to magical places that defy the intervention of the ordinary. It’s one of the great, abiding joys of reading. The Continue Reading

Redemptive tales are always good for the soul. There’s something immensely satisfying and endlessly restorative reading about people who have reached the very end of themselves, usually in messily complicated, destructive ways, and who need to find a way back to who they really are or want to be. Sometimes, Continue Reading

You wouldn’t necessarily know it from looking at the messy clusterf__k that is modern society but people, by and large, like things neat and tidy. While life by its very unpredictable nature is messily chaotic and rife with glorious inconsistencies, and humanity is more than a little prone to not Continue Reading

Preview copy provided by Angry Robot Books via NetGalley – The Warrior releases 23 August. There is an enthralling expansiveness to beautifully and richly told fantasy novels, a sense of imaginative foreverness that envelops you so completely you forget that there’s a real world waiting out there to rudely break Continue Reading

Who among us doesn’t want a fairytale ending? It’s a tough ask in a world more inclined to injustice, vest self-interest and cruelty, accidental or otherwise, but that doesn’t stop us hoping that in amongst all of the hellish loose ends, there might be a definitive moment when all the Continue Reading