For transparency, I’ve reached December and realised I am horribly behind compiling these reviews and I have read so many book this year so here’s another one!! Surprise!! You just…
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2023 in Book Reviews: New Girl, The Secrets of Harwood Hall & The Phone Box at the Edge of the World
Another book review roundup, another trio. Today, I’ll be discussing workplace thriller, The New Girl, gothic mystery The Secrets of Hartwood Hall and the quietly beautiful The Phone Box at…
Book Review: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for…
Book Review: Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry…
Book Review: Convenience Store Woman
She found sanctuary in a supermarket. Now, she’s about to lose it. Keiko isn’t normal. At school and university people find her odd, and her family worries she will never…
Book Review: Birthday Girl by Haruki Murakami
So, it’s been a while… A detailed explanation for my mysterious vanishing will be provided in another post, but the short story for my disappearance is that for the past…
Book Review: The Incendiaries (Blog Tour)
A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult…
Book Review: The Leavers (Blog Tour)
Dialogue Books’ incredible launch title The Leavers by the equally incredible Lisa Ko hits shelves tomorrow and I am absolutely delighted to have been sent a copy by the lovely folks…
Book Review: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
I’d been so excited to read Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before ever since I read the blurb and after researching what my fellow online bookworms thought. The…