The White Rock ~ Anna Hope

*** LIKE

Set in San Blas, Mexico

Well researched and that research is woven into interesting storylines

SEPTEMBER 2022

 

The Colony ~ Audrey Magee

 **** HIGHLY RECOMMEND

A reader's delight.  

Shining language, multiple themes, lingering memories

Of Saints and Miracles ~ Manuel Astur

 **** RECOMMEND

A delight in language and imagery (a translation from Spanish)

Fractured storyline that really doesn't have a climax, a beautiful evocative read

Disappearing Earth ~ Julia Phillips

 **** FAVOURITE

In some ways it reminded me of The Island of Women in that it introduced me to a place I knew nothing about.  This was set on the Kamchatka Peninsula.  While the heart of the storyline is the disappearance of two (three) young girls, there is also so much about the way of life, the location, the problems, the displacement of the indigenous people.

Treacle Walker ~ Alan Garner

 

Not For Me

Any "deeper meaning" was overcoated in gobbledygook

AUGUST 2022

 

The Kraken Wakes ~ John Wyndham

 

Could not get into the G R R Martin so thought i might slip into this ... but it wasn't the right time for a reread

Fire And Blood ~ George R. R. Martin

 Just couldn't get into it. 

Will return!

The Furies ~ John Connolly

 ** OK

Didn't move the Charlie Parker story along much

Had a Covid claustrophobic feel to it

Two novellas rather than a novel