by Helen | Dec 20, 2025 | Book reviews
As you’d expect from the title and cover (it’s always nice when these things align), this is a darkly humorous story of a sociopath and a body or two that get in her way. Lalla Rook is an ambitious sociopath, with a husband she needs to make partner, a...
by Helen | Dec 17, 2025 | Book reviews
A cult that isn’t a cult springs up. Groups of people standing still, trying to become trees.Bren and his partner Caelyn encounter a group early on, an eerie group of strangers who believe they can become part of nature when they’re ready. Bren and Caelyn...
by Helen | Dec 16, 2025 | Book reviews
A hard book for me to rate because it creeps up on you.It begins with two boys leaving a house party in 1999. Another boy’s body discovered. Police who don’t know where to look in a small town. Then there’s a twenty year gap, another body, and...
by Helen | Nov 13, 2025 | Book reviews
The third book in this series, which I’d recommend reading in publication order if you want to make the most of it. At first glance this book feels like quite a departure from the previous two. The main character is bookseller Fern instead of loveable orc Viv. Instead...
by Helen | Sep 10, 2025 | Book reviews
The Shattering Peace is a fun, almost cosy tale about the possible extermination of a colony. I know, it sounds all wrong, but I’m right about this. Add in some super intelligent aliens and tricky politics, and you’re in for quite the ride. This is part of...
