Schwab infuses the magic of her world into every single carefully written word. Her language evokes the atmosphere, her words propel the narrative, the diction and syntax so purposefully crafted that I felt transported immediately in the first chapter. Her characters are so well-developed in the...
When I was very young, I got to know books.Its a world full of color pictures and Pinyin.I found another secret in the book: ape man is the ancestor of human beings; dinosaurs are very tall and terrible; in the distant ages, people used wood to make fire It turns out that the wor...
“Bloodwater is a first-rate thriller, sharply paced and smartly written. The pages fly by, and Duerden keeps us guessing as the tension builds, driven by an intriguing cast of characters whose island paradise has suddenly become a dark and dangerous world.”--Kathryn Guare, award-winning aut...
I’m glad I read this; it was very impressively structured and written. I liked it but didn’t love it (if that makes sense). It must have been absolute hell to draft and organise this. It’s written in a fragmented, choppy style, leaping from one tale to the next, in which his ...
Which book that you’ve written is your favorite? Authors don’t have favorites—all their books are their children. What are your writing quirks? I am a methodical planner—but my plans always go off the rails. What do you do as a hobby? Knitting and I’m dabbling in digital graphi...
Usually novels written in present tense are also written in first person. Obviously, this isn't some sort of literary rule, and I applaud the author's attempt to break the mold. Still, at times I felt that this tense took me out of it. I guess that I just assumed it would be ...
took his lashings without comment. It’s dark yet beautifully written—just hit a little too close to home. I’m glad to see the representation in here—mental health, blindness, domestic violence survivors—and of course I’m thrilled to see where Dau and Liobhan end up in the final ...
Trish was ten when her first play was performed at school. It was in rhyming couplets and written in pencil in a book with imperial weights and measures printed on the back. When her children were young, she wrote short stories for magazines before returning to the teaching job that she lo...
Fast paced, gripping and so well written . Highly rate this author. Devoured this book in hours. Love the fierce women characters.' - Reader Review 'Brilliant, brilliant. 🤩 Can’t wait to read her next book….Thank you Shari for such brilliant entertainment.' - Reader Review 'Excellent...
This sailing memoir was written by a seaman and an adventurer Joshua Slocum, who was the first person to sail around the world alone and documents his epic solo circumnavigation. An international best-seller, the book became a great influence and inspiration to travellers from each corner of the...