Category: Reading
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The Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage
This story bowled me over. Alix E Harrow builds a fascinating and strange world, breaking your heart in only a handful of pages. Set on a world straddling the Mississippi River, with the civilised East determined to subdue, stabilise, and settle the wild and ever-changing West. This is not the analogy of the Wild West […]
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The Crow Folk
I adored The Crow Folk. Funny, spooky, witchy, and absolutely charming – I was captivated from start to finish. Set in a small Kent village populated with a charismatic cast of characters, Faye Bright stumbles across her late mother’s diary: ‘Here were rituals, magic, monsters, demons and, for some reason, a recipe for jam roly-poly.’ […]
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Bad Town Kids
Sneha Jaiswal transports you to the small town of Dakhinpur in ‘Bad Town Kids’ where you follow the coming of age of four close friends. Jaiswal’s descriptions make you feel like you’re right there with Anita, Saira, Maadesh, and Mokshit, chatting away the afternoon by the lily pond. You become a part of their world, […]
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Top 5 fave books of 2020
I’ve just realised – a full month into the new year – that I didn’t even pick out my favourite books from last year when I did My 2020 reading recap (with charts!). This post aims to rectify that oversight… I read so many great books last year! But I narrowed down my top five […]
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The Last Day
Andrew Hunter Murray’s post-apocalyptic thriller is set in a world where Earth’s spin has ground to a halt, leaving half the world suffering eternal frozen darkness, and the other half burning in constant sunlight. When the world stops turning, Britain lands somewhere between the two extremes – a habitable zone where it’s perpetually mid-morning. The […]
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The Fifth Season
The Fifth Season is the first in the Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin. It’s been on my reading pile for years – I mean, you can hardly ignore a trilogy that wins the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years, can you? And wow, this book did not disappoint. I can’t […]
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