A review by Nalini Haynes Verity Fassbinder is a halfling: she’s half human and half Weyrd (fae). Her father was a kinderfresser, a man who …
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Shivaun Plozza
Hi, Dark Matter Zine‘s podcast is putting Shivaun Plozza in the limelight. Shivaun has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in creative writing and a second …
Shannara Chronicles s01e06: Pykon
A review by Nalini Haynes To read my reviews in order and to avoid spoilers, go to DMZ’s Shannara Chronicles page and start from episode 1. …
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
A review by Nalini Haynes In 1983 Harry, (11) and Miles (14, I think) are fisherman’s sons living ‘down the channel’, south of Hobart, Tasmania. Poverty …
Special by Georgia Blain
A review by Nalini Haynes Fern Marlowe was datawiped and dumped in a corporation where she works for data to eat. She remembers her earlier …
Shannara Chronicles s01e05: Reaper
A review by Nalini Haynes To read my reviews in order, to see my initial enthusiasm be replaced with increasing snark, check out all my Shannara …
In the Skin of a Monster by Kathryn Barker
A review by Nalini Haynes Alice’s identical twin sister took a gun to school, shot 7 other students then killed herself. Since then, Alice has been …
Jennifer Fallon
Nalini Haynes interviews fantasy author Jennifer Fallon in the above podcast (MP3) and below video (MP4). Jennifer Fallon left school at 15 and has has …
Shannara Chronicles s01e04: Changeling
A review by Nalini Haynes My reviews of episode 1, episode 2 and episode 3 are at the links; I won’t repeat those observations here. For a comprehensive …
Shannara Chronicles s01e03: Fury
A review by Nalini Haynes My reviews of episode 1 and episode 2 are at the links; I won’t repeat those observations here. For a comprehensive view …
Frankie by Shivaun Plozza
A review by Nalini Haynes Frankie was expelled from school for hitting a boy with a Shakespearean tome but she won’t tell anyone what happened. …
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
A review by Nalini Haynes Foreign Soil is an audiobook of short stories written and read by poet and author Maxine Beneba Clarke. Each story …
Shannara Chronicles s01e02: Chosen part 2
A review by Nalini Haynes See my review of ‘Chosen’ part 1 to avoid spoilers and for previous comments relating to the series that I won’t …
Grass for His Pillow by Lian Hearn
A review by Nalini Haynes Across the Nightingale Floor is book 1 in the Tales of the Otori series (review here); Grass for His Pillow …
Shannara Chronicles s01e01: Chosen part 1
A review by Nalini Haynes Wil Ohmsford (Austin Butler) is a half-elf racing to save his mother’s life. Sadly, he arrives too late, only to hold …