Category: Book Review

The Bookshop Below By Georgia Summers

The Bookshop Below Thank you to NetGalley, Redhook, and Hodderscape for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In this extraordinary standalone from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The City of Stardust, a disgraced bookseller is offered the chance […]

Cobalt Red By Siddharth Kara

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation―and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt […]

Slow Noodles By Chantha Nguon

Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes  A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot’s genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother’s kitchen. […]

Voidwalker By S.A. MacLean

Voidwalker Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me an ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review. WOULD IT BE SO BAD TO BE DEVOURED? Fi smuggles contraband between worlds, stockpiling funds and stolen magic to keep her village free from the blood […]

Hostage By Eli Sharabi

Hostage In a raw and unflinching memoir, Eli Sharabi, a survivor of 491 days in Hamas captivity, recounts the harrowing ordeal of his abduction from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7th, 2023, the loss of his wife and daughters, and his unyielding resolve to survive. “I refuse to let […]