Maxwell’s Demon
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Mrs Death Misses Death
Disclosure: I received a copy of this book free of charge for review purposes only. Receipt of a book does not guarantee a review or endorsement. My reviews are my honest opinion and are not biased for the purpose of personal gain. Death is getting…
Leave the World Behind
Amanda and Clay are on holiday with their two teenage children, a secluded house away from the hustle and bustle of modern life. Their quiet retreat is interrupted when an elderly black couple turn up at their door. They say they are the owners, they…
We Cast a Shadow
Set in a near future America, We Cast a Shadow explores what happens when a country accepts institutionalised racism, when even the black people accept it. The unnamed narrator thinks the worst thing his son can be is black, that he will succeed if only…
Hag-Seed
Felix loses his job as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre, when his ambitious interpretation of The Tempest goes to far. Exiled from his old life, he takes a job in a prison, teaching inmates to perform theatre. When an opportunity to take revenge on…
The Silence of the Girls
Briseis is a young Trojan woman whose city falls to the Greeks. The men and boys are slaughtered and the women taken as slaves. Briseis is awarded to Achilles as a trophy of war. This is her story. Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles… How…
There There
There There follows twelve Native Americans in the days running up to the Oakland powwow, exploring the identity of a people whose home is just not there any more. Dene plans to film the stories of Natives at the powwow, to tell the tales that…
Sal
13-year-old Sal has been planning their escape for a year. Sexually abused by her mother’s boyfriend, she needs to stop the same happening to her younger sister Peppa. After taking care of Robert, Sal and Peppa go on the run, living in the Galloway Forest,…
The Underground Railroad
It’s possible that you’ve been hiding from the book world for the past year and haven’t heard about The Underground Railway. It’s been nominated all over the place and won the Pulitzer Prize and Arthur C. Clarke award. Look outside as you speed through, and…
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
A family in London is faced with the death of the two boys’ mother, the husband’s wife. In the depths of their grief, a visitor arrives in the form of a giant crow. Grief is the Thing with Feathers is a surreal book but also…
Black Sun
Today he would become a god. His mother had told him so. The opening line may seem like something any mother would tell her son, but in the case of Serapio, his mother truly believes he will become the Crow God reborn. She blinds him,…
Legendborn
The day Bree gets accepted into an early college placement at UNC, is the day her mother dies. The last words they spoke were of anger. Unable to deal with her dad’s grief on top of her own, Bree goes ahead with the placement. Once…
Ninth House
Alex Stern does not belong at Yale. When she awakes as the sole survivor of a multiple homicide, presumed a drug deal gone wrong, she is given an unlikely offer. Come to Yale, join the House of Lethe and oversee the rituals of the other…
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Just let me dust off this blog thing, I have a review for you! One of my anticipated reads released during lockdown was the follow-up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. If you read that, of course will will be dying to know what happened to…