A review by Nalini Haynes Subhi is Australian: he was born in a refugee camp in Australia and he’s spent his entire life living in that …
Book reviews
Star Wars: Bloodline by Claudia Gray
A review by Nalini Haynes Bloodline. Luke and Leia are descended from Darth Vader; Leia’s son is Kylo Ren, the masked baddie from The Force …
Black Magick volume 1: Awakening by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott
A review by Nalini Haynes It’s night. I guess the Awakening has already happened because everyone’s awake. A coven of witches circle a tree stump, …
Monstrous Child by Francesca Simon
A review by Nalini Haynes Hel, daughter of Loki and Angrboda, is born with rotting corpse legs. She remembers her birth well because she’s a …
Vigil by Angela Slatter
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 …
Fireman by Joe Hill
A review by Nalini Haynes Harper Grayson works as a school nurse. Someone spontaneously combusts outside her office window. A spore called ‘dragonscale’ is spreading …
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 …
Winterkill by Kate A Boorman
A review by Nalini Haynes Emmeline is a 15 year old girl living in a walled settlement in the middle of nowhere, eking out an …
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 …
Invincible: Family Matters by Kirkman, Walker and Crabtree
A review by Nalini Haynes Invincible is a comic book focusing on Mark Grayson, a teenager whose father is a superhero. In this volume, Family …
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. …
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 …
Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch
A review by Nalini Haynes Foxglove Summer is the fifth in Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series about Peter Grant, a police constable who accidentally discovers …
Darker Shade of Magic by V E Schwab
A review by Nalini Haynes Kell is a magician from Red London who travels between three parallel worlds, some of which have magic and some …
Map of Bones by Francesca Haig
A review by Nalini Haynes The Map of Bones is the second in a trilogy, following The Fire Sermon (review here). They are set in …