Audiobook Reviews

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

14 October 2025

I do enjoy ridiculous, weird, or comically long titles on books, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is certainly a mouthful. But behind that unwieldy name is a genuinely charming story told entirely through letters and telegrams. […]

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The Summoner: Echoes of the Fallen

10 October 2025

Set in a world after the end. A world where the good have already lost, the heroes are long gone, and the survivors are just trying to piece things back together. The Summoner: Echoes of the Fallen opens in that

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Review Historical Fiction

The Story Collector

5 October 2025

There’s something quietly charming about The Story Collector. It weaves together Irish folklore, small-town life, and the ache of starting over. All with just a hint of magic at the edges. Sarah, recently divorced and escaping her old life by

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Review Fiction

Ordinary Soil

30 September 2025

Ordinary Soil by Alex Woodard is a story rooted in farmland, family history, and the creeping sickness born of pesticides in the soil and past secrets. It opens with Jake, who crashes his car into the old elm tree on

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Review LitRPG

Tol-Saroth

27 September 2025

Tol-Saroth: Everybody Loves Large Chests, Volume 11 by Neven Iliev was another enjoyable outing with everyone’s favourite murderous mimic, though it did feel more like stage-setting than a full-throttle adventure. With only two books left in the series, I’d half

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Review Historical Fiction

The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits

23 September 2025

This is one of those books where the idea alone is fascinating: take odd scraps of history such as a court record, a news clipping, a rumour passed down and spin a story from it. Emma Donoghue doesn’t just retell

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Review Fiction

The Golem of Brooklyn

19 September 2025

Len Bronstein, a stoner art teacher in Brooklyn has been pilfering blocks of clay from his school for years. While high one day, he accidentally creates a nine-and-a-half-foot golem. Not just any golem either, but The Golem, straight out of

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Review Fantasy

Heretical Fishing 4

16 September 2025

Heretical Fishing 4 kicks off with a recap that’s as rambling as it is useful. This, as it turns out, sets the tone for the whole book. Almost 23 hours long, and I spent the first 18 or more chapters

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Review Fiction

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

12 September 2025

On the surface, Eleanor Oliphant is doing just fine. She has her routine nailed down to the last detail. Same meals, same work schedule, same lonely weekends starting with pizza and slowly working through two bottles of vodka. It’s safe,

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Law Everybody Loves Large Chests, Vol. 10

Review LitRPG

Law

9 September 2025

While relistening to the entire series recently, I realised I had a bit of a brain fart and forgot to post a review of book 10. Ten books deep into Everybody Loves Large Chests, it’s obvious I am a sucker

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Review LitRPG

Slayer Bowl

5 September 2025

On paper, Slayer Bowl should have been exactly my kind of thing. Aliens show up, most of humanity gets wiped out when a cosmic bloodsport chooses Earth as their next venue, and the fate of the world rests in the

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Review Fantasy

This Princess Kills Monsters

29 August 2025

This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman takes one of the Grimm Brothers’ stranger fairy tales – The Twelve Huntsmen – and runs it through a playful, self-aware remix. In the original, a jilted bride disguises herself and eleven lookalikes

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