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Review Archive
Here you can find all of our past book reviews.


Review of The Waiter by Kwan Ann Tan
This choose your own adventure, labyrinthine novel is a mysterious and propulsive story where each decision you make takes you on a different journey through this dystopian world.
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Review of The Compound by Aisling Rawle
Let me set the scene: ten single women wake up in a dilapidated, abandoned compound with no clue how they got there. Meanwhile, ten men are making their way through the jungle to join them. Sounds like the start of a reality show? That’s because it is...
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Review of Awakened by Laura Elliot
This debut is a literary horror/sci-fi that will really get under your skin. Elliot does what all great writers of the genre do, she uses real life to write fiction that confronts humanity’s horrors.
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2 min read


Review of The Quiet by Barnaby Martin
A silenced world. A child in danger. Barnaby Martin imagines a future wherein humanity has become nocturnal...
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Review of Aerth by Deborah Tomkins
A must-read for fans of dystopian and speculative fiction...
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Review of Songlight by Moira Buffini
Looking for something to get you out of a reading slump? Look no further than the first of an epic trilogy from award-winning screenwriter..
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2 min read


Review of Napalm in the Heart by Pol Guasch
Translated from the original Catalan, this is a debut for those who enjoy strange fiction.
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1 min read


Review of Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Leslie
Don’t go to Almanby.’ I feel so lucky to have had the opportunity to read this utterly bonkers debut! When you come across a story that...
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2 min read


Review of The Doloriad by Missouri Williams
Set in the aftermath of a vague and unknown environmental disaster, The Doloriad follows a family living on the edge of a ruined city,...
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Review of The Coming Darkness by Greg Mosse
Set in a near future where global warming and pathogenic viruses have caused society to unravel, Mosse imagines a dystopia not so far...
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