Book Reviews & Bookish Things
Review & Giveaway : All That Was Left Unsaid by Danielle Dragona
Katrina never planned on opening her farmhouse to strangers, but widowhood and an empty bank account leave her no choice. At seventy-something, she’s carrying decades of silence, sacrifice, and old betrayals she’s never let go of. Now the past keeps pressing into her present, and with new faces under her roof and old wounds with…
Review: Unladylike by Regina Louise
Unladylike is a genre-blending collection of poetry, lyrical prose, and short reflections about rewriting your own story. Regina Louise treats pain not as a diagnosis but as a doorway, guiding readers from survival toward self-possession. It’s tender, fierce, and written for anyone ready to return to themselves on their own terms.
Review: Life Out Of Order
Alba DeTamble has never lived a life in order. Like her father Henry, she’s an involuntary time traveler, slipping through decades and carrying futures she can see but never change. She holds on to her music and her community of artists and activists as her world grows more unstable by the day, all while keeping…
Review: Dangling by Maura Yzmore
Dangling is a collection of twenty-eight short stories, all about people standing right on the edge. Maura Yzmore blends absurdism, literary realism, and horror, with a few mild speculative twists thrown in. These stories are quick, dark, and completely unafraid to go where most people would never dare.
Extract: Feel-Good Stories by Sarah Swatridge
An eclectic mix of heart-warming stories, full of memorable, quirky characters. Read about the heroic postie, the eccentric duke, a spoilt parrot, a true friend and a determined would-be husband. Perfect bite-sized reading with your favourite drink
Review: Moss And Mirrors
Book Blurb Quinn was just thirteen when she was taken, and fifteen long years passed before a raid finally set her free. The counselor who steps in to help her rebuild seems to be exactly what she needs: patient, understanding, and ready to give her a quiet place to heal alongside women who’ve survived the…
Review: The Me I Used To Be
Four best friends. One night that tore them apart. Twenty-five years of silence. Audrey, Micah, Jasmine, and Beck were the Core Four, the girls who swore they’d be in each other’s lives forever, until a tragic accident the night after graduation sent them all in different directions. Now they’re back for their high school reunion,…
Review: Lyrics Of Summer
She left. He stayed. And ten years of silence sat between them. Summer Hayes was the quiet girl with the big voice, and Chase Whitmore was the boy next door who loved her without ever saying it. When she comes home to their small coastal town to rewrite her ending, she finds that one chapter…
Review: The Songs That Find Us by Andrea Darby
Lizzie thought the hard years were behind her. A happy marriage, a career she loved, a daughter finding her footing in the world. Then Ed’s diagnosis changes everything, and the secrets it uncovers threaten to undo a family that thought they already knew each other completely. This one isn’t the heartbreak you’ll brace yourself for.…
Review & Giveaway : Fatal Pattern by Kate Angelo
Dr. Tori Crew has spent her life building walls, and for good reason. When a stalker who seems to know her every move corners her at knifepoint, those walls start cracking at the exact moment she needs them most. Pulled into an investigation that keeps circling back to secrets from her own past, Tori has…
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