A review by Nalini Haynes Everything’s Changing is a collection of weird very short stories. Possibly flash fiction depending on your definition. Supernatural stories featuring …
Book reviews
Funny Feelings by Tarah Dewitt
A review by Nalini Haynes Farley is a comedian about to embark on a tour as warm up for a couple more established women. The …
Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
A review by Nalini Haynes The Love Hypothesis is another romantic comedy recommended during a Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) romance writers’ event. The …
Payback’s a witch by Lana Harper
A review by Nalini Haynes Last weekend I attended a SFWA romance writers’ event where we compiled a list of speculative fiction/fantasy stories featuring romance. …
Deluge by Stephen Markley
A review by Nalini Haynes The Deluge is a CliFi (Climate Fiction) doorstopper at about 900 pages. Nearly the first 100 pages read like short …
Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
A review by Nalini Haynes Animal Life is touted to be in a similar vein as The Animals In That Country. I disagree. As I …
Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
A review by Nalini Haynes Once upon a time a teenage girl, Bee, had a crush on a boy in a boy band, Noah. That …
Small Town Big Magic by Hazel Beck
A review by Nalini Haynes Emerson is an OCD woman in her twenties running a bookstore and elected as a town councillor. Her family abandoned …
I am not fine thanks by Wil Anderson
I am not fine thanks begins with the pandemic. Comedian Wil Anderson quit his radio job to tour a few shows in 2020 because what …
Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
A review by Nalini Haynes Devon is one in a family of book eaters. They might look human at first glance but they have “book …
Wolfsong by TJ Klune
A review by Nalini Haynes Ox is a lonely teenager with an undisclosed disability working part-time in a mechanical garage while at high school, cared …
How many more women by Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida
A review by Nalini Haynes How Many More Women: exposing how the law silences women is an important non fiction expose of how women are …
Upwelling by Lystra Rose
A review by Nalini Haynes The Upwelling has a bit of a back story, at least for me. It arrived as an unsolicited review book …
Yesterday is history by Kosoko Jackson
A review by Nalini Haynes Yesterday is history is a young adult queer romance crossed with the time travel story. It’s very much feels like …
A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
A review by Nalini Haynes Prince Kadou is terrified. All the time. But especially right now. His sister, Zeliha the Sultan (NOT Sultana!) has just …