by lauralizbuckley | 4 Jan, 2020 | Book Reviews
The Good Mother Blurb Amy’s life is close to perfect – two lovely daughters, a wonderful husband and she’s queen bee in her circle of soccer moms. She feels content, like she’s finally put some distance between herself and the terrible events of long ago. The only fly...
by lauralizbuckley | 28 Dec, 2019 | Book Reviews
Karou has two lives; her life as an art student in Prague, and her life running inexplicable errands for the monstrous Brimstone, and she’s doing her very best to balance the two. But events are in motion that will destroy that careful equilibrium, and that threaten...
by lauralizbuckley | 21 Dec, 2019 | Book Reviews
Amelie was miserable at having to move down South—to a tiny little town, hours away from the friends and boyfriend she loved. But when her turn in the talent show drew the attention of Reese—charismatic, talented and overwhelmingly cool—he left little room in her head...
by lauralizbuckley | 14 Dec, 2019 | Book Reviews
A mysterious book, discovered in the depths of the university library, sets Zachary Rawlins on a bewildering adventure. Swept up by forces beyond his understanding, he finds himself in an underground labyrinth filled with stories, inhabited by only the taciturn...
by lauralizbuckley | 7 Dec, 2019 | Book Reviews
Amber—24 years old, tech support worker, gay and staunchly feminist—is not impressed when she starts seeing adverts for a new drug which lets you move fat around your body to wherever you’d like it to be. Marketed exclusively at women, of course, it’s just been...
by lauralizbuckley | 30 Nov, 2019 | Book Reviews
Gilead is many things to many people; terrifying, oppressive, safety, home, opportunity. In The Testaments, Margaret Attwood tells a story through three very different perspectives on the bleakly misogynistic Republic of Gilead. Agnes is a young woman raised in...