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Category Archives: Book Review
The Necessary Angel by C.K. Stead – 2017
A group of people in Paris in 2014/15, all literary, all quite objectionable, meander round each other, aloof from events around them. Max Jackson is a Kiwi, although I doubt he would ever describe himself as such – the thought … Continue reading
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Gabriel’s Bay by Catherine Robertson – 2018
Gabriel’s Bay is full of stories, and stories within stories, with everything beautifully woven together. Gabriel’s Bay is a small New Zealand coastal town with difficult access, economic problems and a small, varied population. As we read, we get to know many … Continue reading
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Edge of Truth by Brynn Kelly – 2017
Edge of truth is another adrenaline roller coaster ride from Brynn Kelly, the author who brought us the fantastic mash-up of thriller/romance that was Deception Island. Edge of truth is a story of international conspiracy and war-mongering, played out in … Continue reading
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Painted by Kirsten McKenzie – 2017
Painted is a creepy slow burn piece of horror writing, putting scenarios in your head that play out long after you have finished reading. At the start of the novel, you find out an artist has passed away and left … Continue reading
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Iceland by Dominic Hoey – 2017
This is an absolutely riveting debut novel. Told from alternating points of view of two young artists, one a musician and the other a painter, whose gifts are thwarted by drugs, violence and a corrupted world view. Zlata is a … Continue reading
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Hot Flush by Rosy Fenwicke – 2017
Euphemia Sage has been receiving strange letters over the years – from her deceased aunt, the woman who raised her when her mother ran off. The letters have been spookily aware of Euphemia’s circumstances at the time she reads them, … Continue reading
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Nothing Bad Happens Here by Nikki Crutchley – 2017
Miller Hatcher is getting over a relationship and the recent death of her mother, with the help of alcohol, when she gets the opportunity to write a feature story that might land her the job of head reporter for the … Continue reading
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Know Me Now by CJ Carver – 2017
I have enjoyed the C.J. Carver Forrester and Davies series from the first installment, and I am thrilled to be part of this Know me now blog tour. The date list for the tour is at the end of my … Continue reading
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The Easter Make Believers by Finn Bell – 2017
A hostage crisis in the small Otago town of Lawrence in the South Island goes horribly wrong. A woman is shot, her children traumatised, four guys are fatally shot by police snipers, and another is killed by an explosion that … Continue reading
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Obsession by Elspeth Sandys – 2017
Why do people become obsessed with places, things or other people? What has evolved in us that enables us to continue to desire unrequited relationships, when to do so brings great suffering to ourselves? And what hyperactive flourish of male … Continue reading
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