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Review: Eve of Eridu, by Alanah Andrews

September 19, 2019 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

Eve of Eridu by Alanah Andrews (sq)

Emotions are dangerous; restraint of feeling is necessary for a peaceful society. ~ Book of Eridu Nuclear fallout and and biological warfare have driven the few remaining people underground to try to keep the human race alive in a new society they call Eridu. Several generations later, Eve is entering her final cycle before the […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Australian Women Writers Challenge, book reviews, dystopia, speculative fiction, young adult

Review: The Shining Wall, by Melissa Ferguson

September 9, 2019 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

The Shining Wall by Melissa Ferguson (sq)

LeaderCorp didn’t care about people. Everything was a transaction to them. If the cost exceeded their benefit, there was no point. The Shining Wall, by Melissa Ferguson, imagines a future dystopia that mashes together all the worst possible scenarios from a deeply humanised perspective – climate change, human destruction (increased radiation levels are mentioned), exploitation […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Australian Women Writers Challenge, book reviews, dystopia, speculative fiction

Review: Watershed, by Jane Abbott

August 20, 2019 by Rebecca Bowyer 2 Comments

Watershed, by Jane Abbott (sq)

The brutality of climate change has destroyed civilisation as we know it in Watershed‘s dystopian future. The seas have risen and the last time it rained on land was decades ago. Catastrophic weather patterns have rendered all forms of advanced technology useless. For a long time, anarchy reigned. In the Citadel, the Tower has built […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Australian Women Writers Challenge, australian writers, book reviews, climate fiction, speculative fiction

Review: The Library Book, by Susan Orlean

August 18, 2019 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

The Library Book, by Susan Orlean (sq)

The Library Book, by Susan Orlean, is simply wonderful. It made me want to go to my nearest library to sit and contemplate and just breathe in the bookish goodness. It’s ostensibly a non-fiction book about the 1986 fire which destroyed the Los Angeles public library, including over 400,000 books. Orlean weaves her story of […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book reviews, non fiction

Review: Pan’s Labyrinth, by Cornelia Funke & Guillermo del Toro

July 28, 2019 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

Pan's Labyrinth, by Cornelia Funke & Guillermo del Toro (sq)

Pan’s Labyrinth bears an unusual relation to the 2006 film of the same name. It is a film-to-book adaptation rather than vice versa. Best-selling author, Cornelia Funke, has written a novel inspired by Guillermo del Toro’s film. A very dark fairy tale for adults, Pan’s Labyrinth follows the plight of young Ofelia after she and her mother […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book reviews, historical fiction, speculative fiction

Review: The End of Time, by Gavin Extence

July 28, 2019 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

The End of Time, by Gavin Extence (sq)

The End of Time is a fabulous modern story about the differences and similarities between people of all races and religions. Told in first person with empathy and humour, it centres on on the story of two teenage Syrian brothers trying to reach the U.K. where they hope to leave the war behind them and […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book reviews, contemporary fiction, literary fiction

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