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Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
DISCLAIMER: If you are thinking of reading this novel I recommend you check out some more positive reviews, especially ones from #ownvoices reviewers (such as Brandann Hill-Mann’s review). I didn’t hate this book it but I would be lying if I said that it didn’t really, really, really frustrate me (because it did). I would…
1st pov, addiction, America, Angeline Boulley, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, canada, coming of age, CRIME, DEATH, drama, FANTASY, female authors, Firekeeper's Daughter, gay side characters, GRIEF, indigenous, indigenous author, insta love, INVESTIGATION, kidnapping, lgbtq+ side, Michigan, MURDER, My reviews, MYSTERY, native american & first nation, Native American & First Nation authors, Not Like Other Girls, Ojibwe/Chippewa, Ojibwe/Chippewa author, psychopaths, published in 2021, rape, read in 2021, ROMANCE, sexual assault/abuse/rape, social issues, sports, SUSPENSE, THRILLER, trauma, trying and failing @ feminism, UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE, why the hype, YOUNG ADULT -
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
After reading an article that called Stephen Graham Jones “the Jordan Peele of horror literature” I was really looking forward to The Only Good Indians. Sadly, Jones’ novel never quite lived up to its eerie premise. Then again, this may the case of ‘it’s not the book, it’s me’ or maybe I have just become…
2 STARS, 3rd pov, Adult, America, Blackfoot, blackfoot author, Contemporary, FOLKLORE, gore, HORROR, indigenous, indigenous author, male authors, myths, native american & first nation, Native American & First Nation authors, PARANORMAL, published in 2020, read in 2020, revenge, Stephen Graham Jones, SUPERNATURAL, The Only Good Indians, THRILLER, violence, why the hype -
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
Burnt Sugar is one of the worst books I’ve read in 2020. If you were able to appreciate this novel, I’m glad. This may be one of those ‘it’s me, not you’ cases…or maybe I’ve read too many stories exploring a complex mother/daughter relationship. To be perfectly frank, I bloody hated this book. It was…
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Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall — book review
Boyfriend Material reads less like fiction than fanfiction. No one acts their age, we have an exceedingly angsty protagonist, a plethora of silly side characters who express themselves using a Tumblresque sort of lingo, unlikely interactions, and a lot tropes. The novel’s sitcom-like structure was predictable and often unfunny. Luc O’Donnell’s friends, colleagues, and acquaintances…
1st pov, 2 STARS, Adult, Alexis Hall, arc, BOOK REVIEWS, Boyfriend Material, British author, cheesy, Contemporary, drama, england, fake dating, gay, HUMOR, Hyped new releases, lgbtq+, LGBTQ+ Author, light reads, m/m, male authors, netgalley, published in 2020, read in 2020, rom-coms, ROMANCE, summer reads, why the hype -
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton — book review
Whodunnits, Agatha Christie, mysteries, and puzzles are all favourites of mine…so I was pretty excited to read The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle as it promised to combine all of these things together. “I suddenly have the sense of taking part in a play in which everybody knows their lines but me.” With a fascinating…
1930S, 1st pov, 2.5 STARS, 20th century, action, AGATHA CHRISTIE, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, Books that take place in a single day, British author, confusing for the sake of being confusing, CRIME, DETECTIVE, england, Groundhog Day, HISTORICAL FICTION, lgbtq+ side, manor/big house, morality, MYSTERY, mystery puzzle, published in 2018, read in 2020, SPECULATIVE FICTION, Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, whodunnit, why the hype -
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes – book review
“She wasn’t really one for big groups, but she quite liked this, the jokes and the merriment, and the way that you could see actual friendships springing up around the room, like green shoots.” The Giver of Stars is a sweeping romantic western that tells a fictionalised account of the Kentucky Pack Horse Librarians. It…
1930S, 1940s, 2.5 STARS, 3rd pov, Adult, America, American, books about books, British author, cheesy, drama, female authors, female friendships, feminism, friendships, Great Depression, HISTORICAL FICTION, hyped releases, Jojo Moyes, Kentucky, librarians, libraries/bookshops, light reads, MARRIAGE, MELODRAMA, published in 2019, READ IN 2019, road trip, ROMANCE, rural setting, Southern America, The Giver of Stars, trying and failing @ feminism, why the hype -
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow — book review
“Reason and rationality reigned supreme, and there was no room for magic or mystery. There was no room, it turned out, for little girls who wandered off the edge of the map and told the truth about the mad, impossible things they found there.” Readers who have yet to dip their toes in the vast…
1900s, 1910s, 20th century, 3 STARS, adventure, Alix E. Harrow, America, American, books about books, different styles (1st/2nd/3rd povs), FANTASY, fathers & daughters, female authors, HISTORICAL FICTION, MAGIC, MAGICAL DOORS, portal fantasy, published in 2019, READ IN 2019, ROMANCE, story within a story, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, why the hype, YOUNG ADULT -
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy — book review
For readers in want of an incisive and creative account of life in East Germany, I strongly recommend picking up something by Christa Wolf. I think that from now on I might stick to Deborah Levy‘s non-fiction. While I’m glad to see that many of my friends and other readers were able to enjoy this…
1980s, 1st pov, 3 STARS, bad love, Berlin, BISEXUAL/PANSEXUAL, booker longlist 2019, British author, cheating, cold war, Deborah Levy, east and west germany, england, existentialism, female authors, feverish, Germany, historians, Hyped new releases, illness, introspective, Jewish, lgbtq+, LITERARY FICTION, LONDON, mental health, paranoia, published in 2019, READ IN 2019, SEXUALITY, stylised prose, surreal, The Man Who Saw Everything, why the hype -
Our Stop by Laura Jane Williams – book review
While Our Stop may have made me smile me smile, once or twice, it mostly frustrated the living daylights out of me. Our Stop implements a similar gimmick as quite a few other romances: from new book releases such as The Flatshare—where the two leads develop feelings for one another through post-it notes—to the classic…
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The Truants by Kate Weinberg — book review
This is the type of non-literary book that has literary aspirations yet its laboured attempts to imbue its story and characters with a certain dose of moral ambiguity and depth ultimately fall flat. In spite of its intriguing first few chapters The Truants soon followed the well-treaded path of similar campus/college novels: we have a…
1st pov, 2 STARS, academia, affairs, AGATHA CHRISTIE, bad love, books about books, British author, campus, cliques, dark academia, drama, england, female authors, Kate Weinberg, MYSTERY, obsession, psychological, READ IN 2019, ROMANCE, suicide, SUSPENSE, The Truants, UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE, unreliable narrators, wannabe TSH, why the hype
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