Books

Finding intimate character moments in the midst of a sprawling space opera may seem like a strange anomaly, but the truth is that the two go together in ways many people not familiar with genre may not fully expect. Much like movie blockbusters which neatly characters with real, fully-rounded humanity Continue Reading

Can one day change everything? If you’re Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood, it can and it does, with less than 24 hours in fact bringing about a messy kind of Road to Damascus moment for the titular character who finally confronts the one issue that ended up splintering her Continue Reading

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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