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 …
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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…
A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland
Release date: 13/03/25 A Room Above a Shop is an atmospheric and intimate story about two men entering a relationship during the AIDS crisis. This is one of the most difficult reviews I have had to write and despite receiving an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC), I have struggled to eloquently put together my thoughts until…
The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness
The Black Bird Oracle is the fifth book by Deborah Harkness, following the Bishop-Clairmont family. The series is a supernatural romance which explores the relationships between the different supernatural species. So far, the series has been a hit and the Black Bird Oracle is no different. This story focuses on the paternal side of the…
Book Guild – April 2025 Challenge
April, the crazy weather month. Well, thanks to global warming, we now have those almost every month, but let’s celebrate for what April was known for the last years…:
An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows
An Accident of Stars is one of the most ambitious political commentaries that I have read, set in a distinctive portal fantasy. The book revolves around Saffron Coulter, an Australian teenager who stumbles into a new world where magic is real and technology is rudimentary. Guided by another ‘worldwalker’, Gwen, she becomes ensnared in the…