by Helen | Aug 20, 2023 | Book reviews
This is a long, complex novel with hard SF ideas at the foundation of its premise and characters you grow to love at its heart. It’s going to be tough to summarise in a review. It begins when scientist Hadiz Tambuwal, based in Lagos, develops a form of amateur...
by Helen | Jul 18, 2023 | Book reviews
Five stars from me. But do take into account that this is a fun, light, very silly and really quite sweary SF book. It’s not going to hit that hard for everyone. (But maybe it will!)Charlie is a substitute teacher with money troubles and a yearning desire to buy...
by Helen | Jun 16, 2023 | Book reviews
The Day The Earth Turned is book one in a post-apocalyptic YA series – and it surpassed my expectations. It begins after a pandemic or two or three. All (or almost all) the adults are dead. The focus is on a small town (village?) and its outskirts, and the two...
by Helen | Jun 11, 2023 | Book reviews
A compelling domestic suspense novel that also manages to tell a story of families surviving across the ages. After her mum and step-dad are murdered, and step-brother Martin sentenced for their deaths, Nancy realises she has to disappear. She flees to her...
by Helen | May 29, 2023 | Book reviews
None of This is True is a read-in-one-day, expertly put-together psychological thriller, and I thoroughly enjoyed every single page. It begins with Josie and Alix crossing paths at a local pub one day, and realising they are both celebrating the same birthday on the...
