Booklicious Podcast

One By One : By - Ruth Ware - Novel Review

“A gripping thriller that shows how toxic workplace culture can get and will keep you guessing through the very last page.”

So, I picked up 'Clockwork Angel’, as I've been meaning to do for a while and I am so happy that I did finally get around to it. Honestly though, I'm not even sure where to begin with this review

The Mirror & the Light is a masterpiece that will keep yielding its riches, changing as its readers, going forward with us into the future.

The Searcher : Tana French takes this standalone novel at a measured pace, easing readers into Cal's quiet life before the thrills unravel."

I am already predicting Long Bright River to be in my top 5 of favourite books for 2020!

Long Bright River is brutally honest about the grittiness around dysfunctional families, the opioid epidemic, and sex work. Liz Moore’s writing is intense and so real. I had a two day book hangover after finishing this book and I cannot wait for the movie being produced by Amy Pascal and Neal H. Moritz!

Stephen Graham Jones’s new book shows the unfolding fate of four close friends, American Indians of the Blackfeet Nation, who seem to have run afoul of something in the spirit world. I say “seem to” because the author is skilfully strategic in how he unpacks the story and how he presents reality.

The Once and Future Witches is a tale of stories , witches and sisters, justice and womens right to vote in 1893. We follow the Eastwood sisters--James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna as they join the suffragists of New Salem. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote-and perhaps not even to live-the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive...

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue : By – V.E. Schwab - Book Review

This book was absolutely incredible. I am a fan of Schwab’s other work, so I was extremely excited about ‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue’, especially as Schwab has talked on multiple occasions about it being a book that really means a lot to her. I went in with high expectations and yet somehow it exceeded every one of them...

The Vanishing Half - GoBookMart - Novel Review

The beginning of the book introduces Mallard, a small town just 2 hours outside New Orleans. But it’s a very unique town. The community, although black, prides themselves on having light skin. They are too dark to be white, but to light to be black. Mallard was built to be the place in-between. And each generation gets lighter. One day, the twins decide to run away from this claustrophobic town...

Sherlock Holmes - Do you really know him ?

More than a century after first emerging into the fogbound, gaslit streets of Victorian London, Sherlock Holmes is universally recognizable. And yet many of his most recognizable features don't appear in Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories. So who exactly is Sherlock Holmes? Who's the real "great detective," and where do we find him?