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Category: Book Reviews
Review – Sanctuary
By V.V.James - Mystery " Sanctuary's the sort of place that's good at making you feel not good enough. " I have searched and searched for something about this author but I cannot find anything. All I know is that it does not read like a first novel. I believe this was written by a …
Review – The Whisper Man
By Alex North - Thriller/Mystery "The devil finds work for idle hands. Bad thoughts find empty heads" Imagine your child stating they heard a whisper coming through the window. Not only that but on another night, you find them opening the door to someone talking to them through the letterbox in the door. All of …
Book Review – Chernobyl
by Svetlana Alexievich - Non Fiction “ Is there anything more frightening than people? ” When I was a child, I vaguely remember hearing something about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant and how it changed the USSR almost the world. I wanted to learn more about it since the TV show aired, and I listened …
Book Review – All Our Secrets
By Jennifer Lane - Mystery/Crime https://jenniferlane.co.nz/ All our secrets is set in a small town in Australia, Coongahoola with the Bagoola river running through it. The river children, that were born in the aftermath of the infamous River Picnic, start to go missing one after the other. Hundreds of believers (termed "the Bleeders") also turn …
Book Review – The Hoarder
by Jess Kidd - Literary Thriller “ Memory is like a wayward dog. Sometimes it drops the ball and sometimes it brings it, and sometimes it doesn’t bring a ball at all; it brings a shoe. ” Maud Drennan is an underpaid care worker who has been given a new case. A man who made …
Book Review – The Chalk Man
by C.J Tudor - Thriller “What shapes us is not always our achievements but our omissions. Not lies; simply the truths we don’t tell.” The story follows Eddie and his friends and alternates between his childhood experiences and adulthood relationships. It seems that events just happen one after the other with little to no breaks …
Foundryside – Robert Jackson Bennett
All things have a value. Sometimes the value is paid in coin. Other times, it is paid in time and sweat. And finally, sometimes it is paid in blood. The start of a new trilogy, this is by far one of my favorite books of the year. Set in a world where the magic is …
