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Review: We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
This is a book I've put off reading for a long time. In fact, I saw the movie with Tilda Swinton before I was brave enough to read the...
Melanie Roussel
Feb 19, 20213 min read
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Review: Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf
If you’re like me, your first experience with this story was with the 1988 Disney adaption Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Melanie Roussel
Jun 19, 20203 min read
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Review: Geek Feminist Revolution by Hurley
The Feminist Revolution is a collection of essays by the Sc-Fi novelist and double Hugo Award-winning Kameron Hurley.
Melanie Roussel
Mar 11, 20202 min read
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Review: Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Only days before a massive exhibition is due to open at the New York Museum of Natural History, there is a brutal series of murders.
Melanie Roussel
Jul 29, 20192 min read
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Review: Earthman's Burden by Anderson & Dickson
The protagonist Alexander Jones asks whether human influence has been a good thing for the Hokas.
Melanie Roussel
Jun 28, 20192 min read
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Good Omens - Amazon Prime (Review)
I'm going to say straight away that I absolutely adored this series. It completely lived up to my expectation and then some.
Melanie Roussel
Jun 3, 20193 min read
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Review: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
It's not in the top ten favourites of the Discworld novels, but definitely in the top twenty.
Melanie Roussel
May 24, 20192 min read
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Review: Your Way To Health Journal
Your Way to Health is an all in one journal which helps you track your energy and mood.
Melanie Roussel
May 17, 20193 min read
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Review: Neuromancer by William Gibson
This a book you'll read because it's THE book. Neuromancer by William Gibson is a pillar of cyberpunk fiction.
Melanie Roussel
May 6, 20192 min read
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The Return of the Obra Dinn
The Return of the Obra Dinn - an Insurance Adventure with Minimal Colour.
Melanie Roussel
Apr 17, 20192 min read
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Book Reviews
I have a complex, vaguely troubling relationship with books. I want books. All the books. I haven’t got time to read them, but I want them.
Melanie Roussel
Apr 12, 20191 min read
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Review: 1984 by George Orwell
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
Melanie Roussel
Mar 18, 20192 min read
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Review: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Thursday Next is a Lit-Tech agent, who spends her time tracking literature forgers, hoping for a promotion which is unlikely to come.
Melanie Roussel
Mar 11, 20192 min read
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Review: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
I’m almost glad I waited until now. This is an incredible story, but I feel like I was ready for it now.
Melanie Roussel
Mar 4, 20193 min read
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Fabulous Folklore with Icy (Podcast Review)
Fabulous Folklore with Icy is a podcast that explores the weird, wonderful and frequently kooky world of folklore.
Melanie Roussel
Feb 25, 20192 min read
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The Orville S1 & S2 (Review)
The Orville is the most cross-genre series I've ever seen
Melanie Roussel
Feb 4, 20192 min read
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Review: Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher's magic system rehashes the classic ideas of Latin spell casting and potion making but done in an appealing way.
Melanie Roussel
Jan 28, 20192 min read
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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (Review)
If you ever wondered what a Black Mirror episode would look like if it threw all caution to the wind and went full-blown meta?
Melanie Roussel
Jan 14, 20194 min read
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The Turn of the Screw vs The Haunting of Hill House
It is repulsive, but it's also beautifully written, engaging and well worth the read.
Melanie Roussel
Oct 1, 20184 min read
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Review: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher
True it is, that these are not the droids for which thou search’st.
Melanie Roussel
Sep 21, 20182 min read
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