B Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviewsmystery / New Zealand / POC / POC author / thriller2 Comments
Dear Nalini Singh: A friend alerted me to this book, knowing I was a reader of both your Psy/Changeling series and, in recent years, of the thriller/suspense genre. I was curious to see how my two interests would converge here. The book is narrated by Aarav Rai, an author whose ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / enemies to lovers / New Zealand / POC author / rugby / single dad9 Comments
Dear Nalini Singh, Sometimes a book arrives at just the perfect time and that special alchemy that happens between story and reader happens; a combination of great book and the exact right reading mood. That’s what happened here. I admit enemies to lovers isn’t generally my favourite trope. But Jacob ... more >
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Dear Karina Bliss, When I read the You Had Me At Christmas anthology recently, my favourite novella was Play. When you offered me a review copy of Fall, I snapped it up. It took me much of the book to work out that Fall begins before the action in Play. ... more >
B- Reviewsasthma / Billionaire / Contemporary / New Zealand / single mum / widower6 Comments
Dear Serenity Woods, I saw this story advertised in your newsletter, so I bought it. Pediatrician Brock King, together with his brothers, Charlie and Matt, run the “We Three Kings” foundation; a charitable organisation for sick children and their families. Their younger sister died after an asthma attack when Brock ... more >
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Book banned after Christian complaint -New Zealand now has its first banned book in more than 20 years, Ted Dawe’s Into the River, which was named Book of the Year in 2013 at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards. The ban is particularly troubling because the main character in ... more >
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WisCon’s flaky response to harassment incident sparks Internet uproar – You may have read about the sexual harassment allegations against former Tor editor Jim Frenkel last year on John Scalzi’s blog. Despite the widespread attention the allegations got, Frenkel was back at WisCon this year, and it was only afterward ... more >