Review in 5 – The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

Katherine Arden's 'The Bear and the Nightengale' trilogy is a firm favourite of mine and so when I found out she was releasing a new book I was super excited! In The Warm Hands of Ghosts, Arden takes us back to Flanders in the thick of WW1 where, in the midst of war, someone strange …

Review in 5 – When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

Retellings are my jam. Whenever I see a book advertised somewhere with a hint of a retelling, I’m on it. Veronica Roth introduces us to the world of Slavic folklore. The setting? What appears to be modern-day Chicago, where monsters hide just beneath the surface. Blurb When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the …

A Door Opening

Wow. It's been a while huh? A lot can change in the space of a few weeks, months, years. The blog and reviewing took a bit of a backseat from April 2022, but reading was still, and probably always will be, a firm favourite hobby of mine. Over the past two years, I've read some …