“It’s what you do when you’ve experienced the worst of the worst. You seek out people like you…people worse off than you…and you use them to make yourself feel better about the terrible things that have happened to you.” Genre: Thriller Pages: 321 Published: December 7th 2018 Rate: 4.5 stars Goodreads Synopsis Lowen Ashleigh is… Continue reading Review: Verity by Colleen Hoover
Month: May 2022
Review: The Island Of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
“Always aim for the kind of love that comes from the deep.” Genre: Fiction // coming of age Pages: 368 Published: 5th August 2021 Rate: 4 stars Goodreads Synopsis Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands… Continue reading Review: The Island Of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Review: The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
“She could be vicious, and yet there were times, especially in a crowd, when she was pure energy, drawing the world to herself.” Genre: Domestic Fiction Pages: 432 Published: 15th January, 2019 Rate: 4 stars Goodreads Synopsis Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse… Continue reading Review: The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
Review: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
“Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” Genre: Domestic Fiction Pages: 354 Published: 1977 Rate: 3.5 stars Goodreads Synopsis Song of Solomon is a work of outstanding beauty and power, whose story covers the years from the 1930's to the 1960's in America. At its centre is Macon Dead… Continue reading Review: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison