[2] Blood Demands Blood & Ancient Scrolls Series, Book II
Review Fantasy

Blood Demands

Blood Demands picks up directly after the events of the first book in the Blood & Ancient Scrolls series, continuing Noosh’s journey deeper into the secretive and dangerous world of the Am’r as she continues her transition from ordinary human […]

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Merchant Crab
Review LitRPG

Merchant Crab

Balthazar (a brilliantly over the top name for a crab) likes his muddy pond. He has all the fish he can eat and he’s sure he’ll catch one of those pesky birds one day. His tranquillity is disturbed by the

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Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood
Review Memoir

Twice the Family

This ended up being a fairly big miss for me, which is a tricky thing to say given how personal the material clearly is. The themes are substantial. Adoption, identity, sisterhood, grief, faith, belonging. There is plenty here that should

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Butter
Review Crime Thriller

Butter

Butter is one of those novels that presents itself as a mystery, then sidesteps that expectation almost immediately. On the surface, it’s about a journalist and a suspected serial killer. In practice, it’s far more interested in appetite, control, and

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The Satsuma Complex
Review Humor

The Satsuma Complex

After enjoying Bob Mortimer’s The Long Shoe, I later picked up The Satsuma Complex and ended up listening straight through into its follow-up, The Hotel Avocado, without a pause between the two… or (as I realised later) stopping to write

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Blind Greed From Ivy League to International Fugitive
Review Memoir

Blind Greed

They say crime doesn’t pay. In Lawrence Hartman’s case, it paid very well for a while, until the authorities caught up. Hartman narrates his own story from being accepted into Columbia Law School, then through a whirlwind of shady business

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