Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Nearly twenty years ago I gave Pratchett's Discworld books a chance. I had a long commute and been gifted audiobooks of the first few books in the series. I listened to about the first three books and then decided they weren't for me. They felt gimmicky with a focus on clever ways of saying … [Read more]
False Hearts by Laura Lam
How's this for a synopsis: a pair of conjoined twins escape the cult they've been raised in, are surgically separated and given new hearts, and learn to live in near-future San Francisco, until one of them is arrested for murder and the other has to go undercover as her sister to infiltrate the mob … [Read more]
Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber by Sue Macy
This is BlackRaven reporting on Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber by Sue Macy and illustrated by C. F. Payne. And I would like to say READ THIS BOOK! Okay, so you might want to know why. And the why is Because I said so! And it is a good book about a woman in sports … [Read more]
The Ritual by Mo Hayder
Magnus by Arjen Lubach
The Ritual (Mo Hayder) ***½ When it comes to thrillers and crime fiction, I’m stuck in a quandary in the sense that I usually like the idea better than the execution. My main problem is that so many books within the genre seem so badly written: the characters are flat, the prose is hokey and the … [Read more]
Just Might Work by Katia Rose
And so, my journey through the sapphic romances of Katia Rose comes to an end. Originally this review of Just Might Work was going to be "Oh hey so this one has the best smut of the lot" but then I read Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner and frankly that blew everyone out of the water in the smut … [Read more]
Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner
Somewhere midway through the chapter two "Oh no my friend brought me to breakfast with my one night stand from last night and it's her mom" scene of Mistakes Were Made I realised that Meryl Wilsner had sucked me in for the ride. It was truly an outstanding entry in the awkward reunion genre, a … [Read more]
