Fiction
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Book Review | The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Hello and welcome to my book review of The Kamogawa Food Detectives. This is a brilliant cosy read which I would highly recommend during the colder winter months. Title: The Kamogawa Food Detectives Author: Hisashi Kashwai Translator: Jesse Kirkwood Published: 5th October 2023 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Genre: Fiction Rating: 4/5 stars The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare,…
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Book Review | Yellowface
Hello, and welcome to my book review for Yellowface by Rebecca Kuang. This is a very popular and hyped literary thriller of sorts, with a very close focus on the book industry. Read on to hear my thoughts! Title: Yellowface Author: R.F. Kuang Published: 25th May 2023 Publisher: HarperCollins Genre: Fiction, Thriller Rating: 2.5/5 stars Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. White lies… When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. Dark humour… But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will…
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Blog Tour | The Tsarina’s Daughter
Hello everyone, welcome to my spot on The Tsarina’s Daughter blog tour! Thank you so much Bloomsbury and Midas PR for hosting the tour and asking me to take part! For my spot I shall be sharing my thoughts on this book and its prequel Tsarina! Title: The Tsarina's Daughter Author: Ellen Alpsten Published: 8th July 2021 Publisher: Bloomsbury Genre: Historical Fiction When they took everything from her, they didn’t count on her fighting to get it back… Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and Catherine I, beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the world’s loveliest Princess and the envy of the Russian empire. Insulated by…
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Book Review | Plain Bad Heroines
Title: Plain Bad Heroines Author: Emily M. Danforth Publisher: Borough Press Published: 4th February 2021 Genre: Gothic fiction, Horror, Rating: 5/5 stars Plain Bad Heroines is a highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit. Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call…
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Book Review- A Thousand Ships
Title: A Thousand Ships Author: Natalie Haynes Published: 2nd May 2019 Pages: 352 Genre: Fiction, Retellings, Historical Fiction Rating: 5/5 stars In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective. This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them… In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over, and the Greeks are victorious. Over the next few hours, the only life she has ever known will turn to…