You won’t catch me trying to write any novellas this November (respect for anyone who tries to write 50,000 words in a month, it’s just not in my plans any time soon), but I did read a few! To my mind, novellas occupy a challenging space when it comes to fiction. They need to beRead More
Danika reviews Spear by Nicola Griffith
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link The first book I read by Nicola Griffith was Hild, a 560 page (for the first book in the trilogy) meticulously-researched historical fiction title that left me feeling like I was wandering through a dense fog of unfamiliar names and terms–and yet, it was so engaging that IRead More
Danika reviews Hild by Nicola Griffith
When you open up a book and it includes a map, family tree, glossary, and a pronunciation guide, you know you’re getting into something big. Hild is the first book in a (3 part?) series that explores the life of St Hilda of Whitby. Hild starts with her childhood and her ascent into being a king’sRead More
Mfred reviews Nicola Griffith’s Stay and Always (Aud Torvingen #2 and #3)
I really loved the first Aud Torvingen book. And was pretty disappointed in the sequels. This review contains a lot of plot spoilers, so consider yourself warned. Stay (book #2) started off strong, and because I was so committed to the first book, I was as lost in Aud’s grief as she herself was.Read More
Mfred Reviews The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
Within the mystery genre, I’d place Nicola Griffith’s The Blue Place closer to James Ellory than to more typical whodunnits and detective stories. Similar to Ellroy’s noir thrillers, Griffith’s book is populated with unreliable narrators, deep psychological complexities, and intense, frightening violence. Griffith uses descriptive language much more lush and lyrical than anything Ellroy writes,Read More
Allysse reviewed “Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese” by Nicola Griffith
“Song of Bullfrogs, Cry of Geese” is a science-fiction short story set in a world in which a disease – or symptoms as it is named – is weakening the human race, slowly making it die. The story particularly focus on one immunologist, Molly. She lives on her own, recluse, near Atlanta. She is givenRead More