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Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote
TW: mentions of self-harm Not only was Too Much not enough but what little it offers is wholly problematic. This book would have made slightly more sense if it had been published in 2010 instead of 2020. Its analysis of the social norms and literature emerging from the Victorian era are far from insightful or […]
MoreDolores by Lauren Aimee Curtis – book review
I guess that I’m but a fickle creature: I saw and fell for the cover of this novella (the neon colours, the pose of the model, the simple font…I was a goner). Sadly the actual inside of Dolores has little in common with its fantastic cover design. Written in a prose that manages to be […]
MoreAN ANONYMOUS GIRL: BOOK REVIEW
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen ★✰✰✰✰ 1 of 5 stars A better suited title for this novel would be An Edgy Girl. This is the mostly badly written book I have ever read. An Anonymous Girl is a bad version of the rather dodgy film Cruel Intentions with an added sprinkle of […]
MoreLying in Wait by Liz Nugent
I won’t deny that –initially– there is an underlying tension that renders some portions of the story to be gripping. The first opening lines propel us into what promises – and fails – to be an intriguing mystery. My main reservation about this novel is that it switches tones too often: there is an unbalanced […]
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