A review by Nalini Haynes Josh and friends are back for the last term of grade 6 while deciding on high schools for next year. …
Book reviews
Shadow in the Glass by JJA Harwood
A review by Nalini Haynes Trigger warning: rape Eleanor is a servant in a Victorian household where maids are dismissed after evidence of the master …
Stealing time by Rebecca Bowyer
A review by Nalini Haynes I read Stealing Time in a few chunks because I can’t read for very long at a time without a …
The Nancys by R W R McDonald
A review by Nalini Haynes Tippy Chan’s uncle Pike comes to stay while her mum goes on a cruise that she won. Pike and his …
Centre of My Everything by Allayne Webster
A review by Nalini Haynes Trigger warning: drug & alcohol use including by teenagers and preteens; domestic violence; rape Centre of My Everything has several …
Ruby Tuesday by Hayley Lawrence
A review by Nalini Haynes Trigger warning: rape Ruby Tuesday Matthews (not the model) lives in the bush near a small town where her mother …
Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim
A review by Nalini Haynes Trigger warnings: domestic violence (depicted), depression, and suicide (not depicted but discussed) Wen is the Tiger Daughter of two Chinese …
Shadow and Bone (Book 1: The Grisha) by Leigh Bardugo
A review by Nalini Haynes After reading The Ninth House, I promised myself some more Bardugo books. Then came her Wonder Woman story. Now Rule …
Sing The Four Quarters by Tanya Huff
A review by Nalini Haynes If you’ve bitched and moaned about authors sidelining pregnant women, this is the story for you. Annice is a Bard. …
World Between Blinks by Amie Kaufman and Ryan Graudin
A review by Nalini Haynes Marisol is half-American and half-Bolivian but lives in Bolivia with regular visits to LA, where her Nana lived. Now the …
The Gaps by Leanne Hall
A review by Nalini Haynes Trigger warning: there are no actual depictions of rape or murder but characters contemplate these possibilities and live under the …
Dispossessed by Piper Mejia
A review by Nalini Haynes Slate is a dispossessed foster kid in LA when Malice collects him to take him to his family in New …
Emporium of Imagination by Tabitha Bird
A review by Nalini Haynes For those who’ve read my review of A Lifetime Of Impossible Days or listened to my podcasts featuring Tabitha Bird …
Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
A review by Nalini Haynes A fairy tale unfolds in contemporary England… Taryn Cornick wrote a book about library fires, burnings and conversion to toilet …
Dragon and Her Boy by Penny Chrimes
A review by Nalini Haynes TRIGGER WARNINGS: SUICIDE, DISABLED ABUSE WARNING: SPOILERS. This is a children’s book. I feel very strongly about some of the …