QBD Reviews: The Natural Way of Things
“Clouds collect and steepen, build then collapse, silver empires rising and falling in the vast blue skies.” I really enjoyed this Stella award winning novel. I don’t often read award winning novels because I often find the writing to be inaccessible, nonsensical and pretentious. The 2016 winner is very worthy of the prize. A highly […]
Reviewsday: The Glittering Court by Richelle Mead
I can already hear cries of shock and outrage when I say I’ve never read a Richelle Mead book, but rest easy, for I have venture forward, purchased a copy of her latest work, The Glittering Court, and devoured it! Our heroine, Adelaide, escaping an arranged marriage, poses as a servant and secures a place […]
Reviewsday: Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom
Eric Lindstrom’s debut young adult novel, Not If I See You First, introduces Parker Grant: sharp-tongued, stiff-spined, and the latest in a line of protagonists who subvert suppositions about the blind. Blindness has featured in a number of recent novels—the most memorable being Anthony Doerr’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, All the Light We Cannot See, […]
QBD Reviews: “Chopsticks” by Jessica Anthony & Rodrigo Corral
When a young piano prodigy by the name of Gloria “Glory” Fleming disappears, the whole country wonders where she has gone. Told through a series of photographs, documents and drawings, readers experience the story of Glory’s blossoming relationship with her new artistic neighbour, Francisco “Frank” Mendoza. How did their relationship lead to Gloria’s disappearance? And […]
