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Mini Reviews: A Dead Djinn in Cairo and The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
While hunting through my shiny new Scribd account, I stumbled upon P. Djèlí Clark’s Cairo novellas and was intrigued. I queued up the audiobooks and ended up absolutely loving these gorgeous fantasy tales! As these were quite short, today I’m bringing you mini reviews of these two books. Continue reading
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Book Review: The Murderbot Diaries (1-4) by Martha Wells
Oh, Murderbot — everyone’s favourite anti-social, anxiety-riddled killing machine. I recently completed the entire Murderbot Diaries novellas in anticipation of the release of the first full-length novel, Network Effect, in June. Today I’m offering you mini reviews of each novella, as well as some thoughts on the series overall. Continue reading
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Book Review: Exhalation by Ted Chiang
I’ve been wanting to read Ted Chiang’s short science fiction works ever since his much acclaimed Stories of Your Life and Others. His work gets loads of praise from literary types who don’t usually look twice at genre fiction, so I was definitely curious and picked up a copy. When two of the works in… Continue reading
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Book Review: Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis
Harrow Lake first burst onto my radar when the publishers were sending out the coolest looking proofs (seriously, check it out!) in the winter. I was immediately interested in the book as soon as I read the summary — I’ve never been much of a horror reader but have been trying to dip my toe… Continue reading
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Blog Tour: Incendiary by Zoraida Cordova
Welcome to my stop on the Incendiary blog tour! Incendiary has been on my radar for ages because I loved the idea of a Spanish Inquisition-inspired fantasy novel. Despite my recent ups and downs with YA fantasy, I gave my first Zoraida Cordova book a try, and I ended up really liking it! While I… Continue reading
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The Rearranged Life of Oona Lockhart by Margarita Montimore
I was immediately drawn to the concept of The Rearranged Life of Oona Lockhart — it seemed like it had everything I wanted. Time travel! Brooklyn! Women-led fiction! The 80’s! Unfortunately, this one didn’t quite hit the mark for me, but I think that’s because of my own expectations going into it and confusion as… Continue reading
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The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
I’m not much of a horror reader, however lately I have been dipping my toe into the genre and am loving what I’ve been read so far. Having recently finished My Best Friend’s Exorcism, I was so excited to pick up Hendrix’s new book, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. His trademark wit… Continue reading
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Monthly Reading Wrap-Up: March 2020
Greetings from isolation! March has obviously been a super weird month for all of us — it’s not every day you get locked indoors due to a global pandemic. Lockdown did, however, mean I read lots of books and despite so much anxiety, I managed to keep up with my usual rate of reading in… Continue reading
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Mini Reviews: The Monster of Elendhaven and Upright Women Wanted
I recently signed up to Scribd in order to listen to more audiobooks while homeworking. I was so pleased to discover that they had a few Tor.com novellas that I had been interested in reading, but couldn’t justify the cost (especially for the audiobooks!). Below are two mini reviews for Tor.com novellas that I recently… Continue reading
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Book Review: Wilder Girls by Rory Powers
I had been dying to get my hands on Wilder Girls ever since it came out in the US in 2019. I’m not much of a horror reader, but I’ve started becoming more and more interested in the genre and thought this would be a great way to get into body horror — a subgenre… Continue reading
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