Book Guild – June 2025 Challenge
Since #QueerPride is in June, I’m sure you’re already expecting the theme. However, it’d be boring to have the same prompt every year, so the additional prompt is …
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A Study in Black Brew by Marie Howalt
Release date: 22nd May 2025 A cross between Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who, this sci-fi murder mystery is the most bizarre book I have ever read (and that might be a compliment). If you’ve read ‘A Study in Scarlet’ then you already know the plot. However, this retelling is set in space! Our protagonist, Kellieth,…
Window and Mirror – Book Review
A great collection of poems
that remind us
poetry doesn’t have to be rhyming,
one only needs to know
the art of language,
and how to weave the words
in a way
that touches the reader’s soul.
Short books I’ve read in March & April – Reviews
Sunflowers; When you’re a boy; The Sun; Woah, what a bicycle?!; Milo and the Germ Adventure; Sydney, Bean, and the Missing Gloves; Nite Nite, Piggies; Sib Squad; I am a forest girl; The Pug Who Didn’t Belong; Turtles Are Not Boring; You’re Not a Real Dog Owner Until…
Book Guild – May 2025 Challenge
May is also known as MerMay for the art community, so let’s join them! The theme for this Book Guild’s challenge therefore is …
Powerful Mushrooms – Book Review
Really interesting and quite informative, even for its 1-page-per-fungus format. Mixed info about where and how it grows, whether it’s poisonous and …
Mothers of Fate – Book Review
The writing style is really good; I ate it it all in 2 days, and that’s quick af. Low-key invested.
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Garden Spells is a magical realism novel about two sisters who learn to love each other after a difficult childhood. At the start of the novel, the women have been estranged for over a decade before the prodigal sister returns home with her daughter. This is the first book in the Waverly Family series. This…
Cinnamon Soul – Book Review
A crime fantasy book that technically reads like a youngster’s adventure, yet the themes and language are definitely for adults.
A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic by J Penner
Publish date: 15th April 2025 A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic is a cosy romantasy about baking, magic and found family. It follows the story of Arleta, an orphaned human, whose neighbours secretly enter her into a baking competition. In the process of the competition, she meets a variety of people from different races and…