"In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood, like a hundred golden urns pouring out the sun."
Mini Review: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
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July Wrap Up
A round-up of this month’s reading and writing.
Review: Living the Dream by Lauren Berry
Living the Dream is Lauren Berry’s debut novel about two best friends, Emma and Clem, navigating adulthood and pursuing their art.
DNF Review: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Flabbergasting.
Review: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
The novel by Benjamin Alire Sáenz follows the adolescence of Aristotle Mendoza and Dante Quintana, who meet as 15-year-olds in El Paso, Texas and become practically inseparable. When faced with puberty, family troubles, danger, and grief, can their peculiar friendship endure?
Review: Golden Son by Pierce Brown
It's rare for a sequel to live up to, let alone outdo its predecessor, but Pierce Brown knocked this one out of the park.
ARC Review: All the Good Things by Clare Fisher
Beth was a young woman fresh out of the foster system and determined to start a new life for herself. She had a new job, a new best friend, a new lover, and happily but unexpectedly, a new child. But that was all before the Bad Thing. The thing that landed her in prison and convinced her she's a '100% bad person'. The thing she keeps trying to run from.
April Wrap Up
It's time to recap my first month here at The Hungry Little Bookworm!
Review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a two-part play currently running in London's West End. Though I have not (yet) had the pleasure of seeing the show, I recently read the script written by Jack Thorne based on a story he created with J.K. Rowling and John Tiffany.
Review: Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Though I might have liked 'Red Rising' more if I thought it made less use of genre clichés or owed less to other fiction that came before it, I still believe that Brown wove those elements together into one hell of a book.
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