Reviewsday: The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey
Let me start by saying how much I enjoy reading local Australian content novels. There’s nothing wrong with overseas titles but an Aussie title always draws me deeper in. It’s not the sometimes over-the-top outback dramas I’m talking about (which I do love!) but the ordinary settings and situations. Things like the seasons being the […]
Reviewsday: Joelle Charbonneau’s Dividing Eden
Having read Joelle Charbonneau’s Testing series (which has a Hunger Games-esque vibe to it for all of you dystopian novel lovers!), I think I can safely say I was jumping up and down out of excitement when Dividing Eden popped up on my radar. Reminiscent of The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye, Dividing Eden tells […]
New Life for a Beloved Classic
When Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale was released in 1985, it was an immediate and visceral success. Thirty-two years later, the novel is even more terrifying and socially relevant today. Set in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States government, The Handmaid’s Tale follows the story of […]
Reviewsday: A Court of Wings and Ruin
Sarah J Maas is back with the amazing third instalment in the Court of Thorns and Roses series, A Court of Wings and Ruin. War looms as Feyre Cursebreaker must decide who is friend and who is foe in a race to stop the destruction of not only Prythian, but the human world as well. […]