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Reading Wrap-up: March 2025
What a month! I did a lot of reading in March, finishing 13 books. I credit this success with 1) the Trans Rights Readathon, which always encourages me to read as much as I can and 2) my reintroduction to audiobooks. Check out what I read and acquired below! What I read The highlight of Continue reading
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The River has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
Book review Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death. ‘Oh what is stronger than a death? Two sisters singing with one breath.’ In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Continue reading
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The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
Book review In the House of the Sacred Sisterhood, the unworthy live in fear of the Superior Sister’s whip. Seething with resentment, they plot against each other and await who will ascend to the level of the Enlightened – and who will suffer the next exemplary punishment. Risking her life, one of the unworthy keeps Continue reading
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Orpheus Builds a Girl by Heather Parry
Book review Wilhelm von Tore is dying. As he looks back on his life he reflects on his youth in Dresden, his grandmother and his medical career during WWII. But mostly, he remembers his darling Luci, the dark-haired beauty promised to him years before they met. Though only together for a few months in her Continue reading
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Someone You Can Build a Nest in by John Wiswell
Book review Shesheshen has made a fatal mistake for a monster: she’s fallen in love. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who usually resides as an amorphous lump in the swamp of a ruined manor, unless impolite monster hunters invade intent on murdering her. Through a chance encounter, she meets a different kind of human, warm-hearted Homily, Continue reading
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Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
Book review Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines and the more she learns of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of Continue reading
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Reading Wrap-up: February 2025
February ended up being a great reading month in terms of quality – I read so many incredible books! Unfortunately a lot of those books didn’t exactly make me feel good, therefore I wasn’t reading as much as I wanted. Fortunately I realised this and turned to a couple of fun books to lighten the Continue reading
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Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill
Book review Jenny Greenteeth has never spoken to a human before, but when a witch is thrown into her lake by an angry mob, something makes Jenny decide she’s worth saving. Temperance doesn’t know why her village has suddenly turned against her, only that it has something to do with the malevolent new pastor. All Continue reading
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Mindhunter by John Douglas and The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
Non-fiction book reviews John Douglas is a former FBI Special Agent and expert in criminal profiling and behavioural science. He made a career of looking evil in the eye – and understanding it. No wonder that he was the inspiration for Special Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, as well as the film’s Continue reading
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