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May Flowers at The Three Coins Inn | Book Guide and Review
May Flowers at The Three Coins Inn is comfort reading in its finest form — the kind of book to curl up with when the world feels overwhelming. It’s the third installment in the Three Coins Inn series, following Easter at The…
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Love Me Do, by Meg Macy | Book Review
There’s something satisfying about sequels, and Meg Macy’s Love Me Do, published 15 December 2025, delivers exactly that pleasure. This continuation of the “All You Need Is Love” series proves unafraid to tackle the messy complexities of LGBTQ+ relationships. It’s rare to…
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Rainy Wood (As It Began), by Taanja Mahye | Book Review
The first book in Taanja Mahye’s Rainy Wood series, As It Began is a dark and atmospheric historical novel set in 1917 Minnesota. It follows fifteen-year-old Helen Spooner, an orphan raised in near-total isolation deep in the Northwoods, who is thrust into…
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Let Slip the Beasts, by Suzanne Berget | Book Review
What does it mean to be human when your memories might be fake, your body is no longer your own, and a corporation holds the patent on what you are becoming? That is the question at the centre of Let Slip the…
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Steal the Reaper, by Todd Hosea | Book Review
Steal the Reaper by Todd Hosea is a book with a premise I have never quite encountered before, but that feels like a lost or forgotten Stephen King novel. What if an alien spacecraft crashed on Earth, but plot twist…inside North Korea,…
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The Children of the Children, by Robin McMillion | Book Guide and Review
The Children of the Children is a cult drama set during the final years of the Cold War. The novel centres on an apocalyptic religious community called The Fishermen, where charismatic leadership wields absolute control over members, autonomy is gradually surrendered, and…
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Next in Line, by T.W. Baker | Book Guide and Review
I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect when I picked up Next in Line by T.W. Baker going by the cover. As it turns out, this is a workplace comedy novel that tackles the chaos of pharmacy life through oodles of dry…
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The Migration of Vivex, by Xyne | Book Review
Released on 23 March 2026, The Migration of Vivex by Xyne is a LitRPG novel that slithers straight out of the dark swamp of survival fiction. I reviewed the first book a couple of months ago—in fact, it was my first real…
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The Last Diaspora: Book 1: Letters To Earth, by Mandy Gardner | Book Review
Released in 2019, The Last Diaspora: Letters to Earth by Mandy Gardner is the first in a five-book sci-fi series about planetary colonisation, published by Endless Ink Publishing. While comparisons inevitably arise to Interstellar and Andy Weir novels like The Martian, this…
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The Dyre Prophecy, by Wyatt Moore | Book Review
Some books feel like they were made to be discovered on a school library shelf, shoved into a bag and finished in one sitting. Wyatt Moore’s second novel after 7 Days to Die is that kind of book. The Dyre Prophecy follows…
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