WWW Wednesday

Posted July 2, 2026 by Nicky in General / 0 Comments

Technically it’s now Thursday, but pfft, doesn’t count as a new day until I’ve slept, right?!

Cover of Find Me Where It Ends by Cassandra KhawWhat have you recently finished reading?

Cassandra Khaw’s Find Me Where It Ends, which I’m going to find difficult to review and talk about because it’s profoundly a book I don’t think it was a good idea for me to read. It’s about suicide, and while there’s an amount of metaphor going on with the black dog that shows up to let the women of Antigone’s family know they’re going to die, and the fact that she welcomes it into her home… it’s also very much not a metaphor, and suicide is woven through the whole book. Read with care if you have any mental health issues — if I thought too hard about this one I know I’d end up feeling very, very anxious, and those who struggle with low mood and suicidal ideation might struggle as well.

Cover of Voices of the Nile by Charlotte BoothWhat are you currently reading?

I’ve actually finished most of the books I was rotating through, and am about to figure out the next batch to be on deck. The only one I didn’t finish yet that I’ve got a decent way into is Charlotte Booth’s Voices of the Nile. A lot of the info is familiar to me, but then there are titbits that aren’t, e.g. the discussion of same-sex relationships in ancient Egypt and the theories around the tomb of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum.

I suspect that the other in-progress books I’m going to resume are Stephanie Burgis’ Wooing the Witch Queen, which I anticipate being fun but maybe a bit agonising for me with the mistaken identity thing and waiting for that to be found out, and Carwyn Graves’ Welsh Food Stories. I’m very curious about the latter, since I only really know bara brith (sort of like fruitcake), picau ar y maen (Welsh cakes) and cawl (soup).

Cover of Mistakenly Saving the Villain vol 3 by Feng Yu NieWhat will you be reading next?

Probably volume three of Feng Yu Nie’s Mistakenly Saving the Villain, which just came out and is even now winging its way to me, and/or volume two of Lv He Qian Ye’s The Wife Comes First. I’m eager about both. There’s also an outside chance I’ll read volume three of Priest’s Guardian, which I also just got and completes that series.

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Review – Guardian, vol 2

Posted July 1, 2026 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – Guardian, vol 2

Guardian

by Priest

Genres: Fantasy, Light Novels, Mystery, Romance
Pages: 341
Series: Guardian #2
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

THE SLEEPING GOD STIRS

As snow quietly covers Dragon City in the final days of the lunar year, patients writhing in pain flock to the hospital. Baffled doctors call upon Zhao Yunlan and his team for help. As the case unfolds, Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan discover that one of the Four Hallowed Artifacts, the Merit Brush, has appeared in the Mortal Realm. In the wrong hands, its power can be transformative.

While each step toward the artifact only pulls the pair deeper into a vortex of mysteries, Zhao Yunlan keeps stumbling upon a name: Kunlun. Who is Kunlun, and what is his connection to the Merit Brush? As Zhao Yunlan closes in on the answer, will he also uncover the truth behind Shen Wei's knowing gaze?

Book two of Priest’s Guardian gives us some major developments, both showing us who Zhao Yunlan really is and how he originally met Shen Wei, and getting into more detail on the bigger plot that’s bringing that to light. I must admit I probably need to skim the details again, but there’s a lot going on and a whole mythology here to figure out, but the way things are getting on is pretty intriguing.

We do get some more glimpses of the lives of the side characters Zhao Yunlan works with, and also of his family — his discussions with his parents about his sexuality and his relationship with Shen Wei are well done.

Aaaand we get some progression on the horrific pining, with Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan moving toward an openly romantic relationship, with lots more pining and chemistry off the charts. I can’t wait to see how they sort themselves out and properly commit to something, with Zhao Yunlan aware of the history between them. I hope they get a really happy ending, given the tragedy that seems to have befallen them in the past. Only one more book for everything to resolve, and I can’t quite see how it can all be wrapped up in that time!

I do still dislike the way Zhao Yunlan (and maybe others) consistently call Daqing “fatty” and stuff like that, though. Sure, he’s a cat yao, not a human, but he’s a speaking character. I know that culturally it can come across differently, but it doesn’t seem to be meant positively here, so that’s worth being aware of.

Rating: 4/5 (“really liked it”)

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books Releasing in the Second Half of 2026

Posted June 30, 2026 by Nicky in General / 18 Comments

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is all about upcoming titles, and I must confess, as always I’m not very up on this, aside from the ARCs I get offered by Orbit or happen to see on Netgalley. Honestly, how do you all keep up?!

Still, I did some research and poked around, and checked my wishlist too for books I previously noted wanting, and thus found some books I’m interested in!

Cover of Mistakenly Saving the Villain vol 3 by Feng Yu Nie Cover of The Feywild Job by C.L. Polk Cover of The Imagining of Thornwood House by Jaleigh Johnson Cover of An Expert Witness by Sue Black Cover of The Wife Comes First vol 3 by Lv Ye Qian He

  1. Mistakenly Saving the Villain, vol 3, by Feng Yu Nie.
    This is supposed to be out today according to Seven Seas, making it technically ineligible for the list. However bookshop.org say it’s out tomorrow, so it counts. I just devoured volume two a couple weeks ago, and I’m very eager to continue the story: Yue Wuhuan is pretty unhinged, but Song Qingshi is pretty fascinated by him too, and weird and over-intense though the relationship might be, I’m very curious about how they end up and what the system intends for Song Qingshi in the wake of his choosing the wrong character to rescue. The fourth volume is also due out in the latter half of the year, hitting shelves in October.
  2. The Feywild Job, by C.L. Polk.
    Technically this seems to come out today as well, but I’m highlighting it because I thought it was next month, and no one can stop me, mwahaha. I’ve really enjoyed Polk’s books in the past, and this heist story sounds like a lot of fun. I like the cover, too!
  3. The Reimagining of Thornwood House, by Jaleigh Johnson.
    I don’t know a lot about this, but the idea of a house getting grumpy and walking off and needing to be coaxed back sounds like a lot of fun. It comes out 2nd July, so I guess I don’t have long to wait!
  4. An Expert Witness, by Sue Black.
    I only just learned about this one, but I’m excited! I’ve really enjoyed Sue Black’s previous works, because she pairs technical detail with a resolve never to lose sight of respect and humanity when handling the dead. It’s coming out on 2nd July.
  5. The Wife Comes First, vol 3, by Lv Ye Qian He.
    I haven’t read the second volume yet, so there’s just a chance there’ll be a dealbreaker there… but I flew through the first volume despite its flaws, and I imagine I’ll be keen to find out how all the court intrigue comes to a head in the third, by the time it comes out. I have volume two on my ‘on deck’ pile, after all! I love Jing Shao and his realisation that Mu Hanzhang was loyal to him to the end, and the way he’s seizing his chance to do better. This one’s coming out on 21st July.
  6. Dinosaur Sanctuary, vol 8, by Itaru Kinoshita.
    I love this manga so much, it’s just the perfect palate cleanser for anything. My reviews have been going up recently, actually, but I’ve been waiting since just before Christmas when I originally devoured the first seven volumes (I have a huge backlog of graphic novel/manga reviews that I trickle out to avoid overwhelming the blog with those). I love that it’s basically a story about a zoo, only the animals are dinosaurs. I also really enjoy the fact that it has a dinosaur consultant and adds little fact files by him. This one’s due out 28th July, and I think I’ll preorder it on Kobo!
  7. A Trade of Blood, by Robert Jackson Bennett.
    This is the third book of the Shadow of the Leviathan series which I’ve been enjoying a lot. I actually have the ARC and need to get back to it, but I have to read it on my other device because (sigh) it couldn’t be sent to Kobo because it’s a PDF. I couldn’t resist requesting it anyway, though, and I’m so glad I’ve been able to dig in. The mystery sounds intriguing, and I imagine we’ll get more details toward a clearer picture of the world/the Empire… It’s due out in August.
  8. Our Cut of Salt, by Deena Helm.
    This one is a bit out of my comfort zone, coming out from Tor Nightfire on 22nd September. It’s a horror story, with three generations of a Palestinian family linked with a home in Haifa. It might actually be one that’s more for my wife, but something about it has kinda grabbed me. Maybe the setting? Anyway, I think I’ll be giving it a try!
  9. The Scarlet Ball, by Nghi Vo. 
    I love Nghi Vo’s work, so I’m planning to read this even without knowing much about it. The set up (now I’ve actually read the blurb) sounds intriguing, too: the main character can literally take the face of a missing debutante to play her part — in exchange for what? How does that all work out? Well, unless I request the ARC I’ll have to wait until 6th October to find out.
  10. As You Wake, Break the Shell, by Becky Chambers.
    I didn’t know this was coming out but I’m definitely excited: I’ve enjoyed Chambers’ work so much in the past. I’m intrigued by the living ship/pilot link, too, as well as Chambers’ normal ability to make me care about the characters and relationships. It’s not due until 22nd October… big pout.

Cover of Dinosaur Sanctuary vol 8 by Itaru Kinoshita Cover of A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett Cover of Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm Cover of The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo Cover of As You Wake, Break the Shell by Becky Chambers

Excited to see what others highlight today! My wishlist is waiting for new finds.

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Review – Daedalus is Dead

Posted June 29, 2026 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – Daedalus is Dead

Daedalus is Dead

by Seamus Sullivan

Genres: Fantasy
Pages: 176
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

A beautiful and nightmarish story of fatherhood and masculinity, told through the intertwined fates of Greek mythic figures Daedelus, Icarus, King Minos, and the Minotaur.

Daedalus of Crete is many things: The greatest architect in the world. The constructor of the Labyrinth that imprisoned the Minotaur. And the grieving father of Icarus—plunged into the sea as father and son flew from the grasp of the tyrannical King Minos.

Given the chance to reunite with Icarus in the Underworld, Daedalus will confront any terror to see him again—whether it be the vengeful spirit of Minos, the cunning Queen Persephone, or even the insatiable ghost of the Minotaur.

But there's one terror he didn't expect. As he encounters the people from his life, Daedalus begins to worry that his identity as a husband and father, mentor and friend was all a lie. And that the truth, stalking him in the labyrinth of his own heart, might be too monstrous for him to bear.

Seamus Sullivan’s Daedalus is Dead is a fun one, which takes its full length to fully deliver the sting in the tail of the retelling (which I suspect is why people who DNFed feel it’s a run-of-the-mill retelling that doesn’t bring anything new to the story). In terms of the bones of the story, it doesn’t subvert the actual events too much: there’s a bull, there’s the wrath of the gods, there’s a monstrous baby and a labyrinth, and Daedalus escapes Minos with his son Icarus by shaping two pairs of wings with wax that softens when Icarus flies too high, leaving him to plummet into the sea.

It’s all told in Daedalus’ voice, addresses to his beloved Icarus, apparently the centre of his world. The love is palpable, an almost-obsession with Icarus and what he was like, what he did, why he died. Daedalus is willing to do anything to reunite with him, and we see him bargain with Persephone and reshape hell as he tries to earn the chance.

But through the story, we slowly get little details that make us stop and re-evaluate the good guy persona Daedalus is presenting to us: the treatment of Asterion, the callousness about the deaths of others, the obsession only with his own safety and that of Icarus. The knowledge that what he’s doing is wrong, and doing it anyway to save his own skin. The affectionate relationship with Ariadne, that gets split open later when we actually meet Ariadne… It becomes clear that we have a deeply unreliable narrator, and the whole thing hinges on a moment in which Ariadne identifies something that heroes have in common, that Daedalus too shares.

I won’t give any more spoilers than that — though it’s hard to talk about it in any detail without the acknowledgement of the unreliable narration, and the moments of fracture where you get to see what Daedalus is really like.

It’s a complex one, because the love for Icarus is clearly real: Daedalus will suffer to get to see him again. But how real? Is it love for Icarus, whoever he might have been and whoever he might become? Or is it love of his own legacy, love of someone he shaped, love of the idea of being a good and loving father?

We don’t get answers, as such. We’re left guessing. And that, spun carefully out through the whole novella until the whole of the problem is clear only in the closing pages, is why this is a good retelling.

Rating: 4/5 (“really liked it”)

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Fantasy with Friends: Reading Order

Posted June 29, 2026 by Nicky in General / 8 Comments

Fantasy With Friends: A Disccusion Meme hosted by Pages Unbound

A new week, and a new Fantasy with Friends prompt! All the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about series reading order:

When reading a favorite fantasy series, which reading order would you recommend? For instance, when reading Narnia, do you think people should go by publication order or by chronological order? Or, if you like to recommend Tolkien, do you think readers should start with LotR or The Hobbit? Feel free to discuss any favorite fantasy series you have!

It feels like this question isn’t super relevant to my current faves, buuuut the prompt does help!

  • C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia: personally, I always go with chronological order, starting with The Magician’s Nephew and placing The Horse and His Boy immediately after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (since they overlap). I like starting at the beginning, and I feel like it gives you a solid footing for the following books. Still, there are solid reasons to go by publication order, and that’s the information you have available: if you read The Magician’s Nephew first, you’ll know more than the characters about the world of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I personally think it works both ways, and have always read it that way, but… I can see the strengths of the other way too.
  • J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings: definitely read The Hobbit first. It has important setup for The Lord of the Rings, and it’s a better transition one into the other if you start with it and then let Tolkien bridge you into the higher fantasy tone of The Lord of the Rings: you can track the tone changing from the first chapter into the flight to Rivendell. The other direction would be a really weird transition, and anyway you’d have missed the introduction of the Ring and Gollum. You still have to be prepared for the fact that the audience is a little different between the two books and that the tonal shift is coming, mind you: I’m also open to the two books just being for different audiences, and only reading one or the other (though personally I love the whole).
  • Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising: I rarely ever recommend doing this, but if you’re coming to it for the first time as an adult and you don’t have much patience with children’s literature, skip Over Sea, Under Stone. At least on your first read. I do think it has a great deal of merit and adds to the lore, but The Dark is Rising introduces the stakes a lot better and is less from a child’s point of view: the protagonist of The Dark is Rising is a human child as the book starts… but as he discovers, he’s also an Old One, and that changes his perspective a lot compared to the kids in Over Sea, Under Stone, who are just human. That said, I would suggest reading Over Sea, Under Stone before Greenwitch, if you do get into The Dark is Rising, because you need to know Simon, Jane and Barney and their relationship with Merriman before you can plunge into that.

As a kid, I’d have always said chronological order for anything, but I think publication order has a lot to be said for it because that order is pretty sure to give you the information you need in the order you need it… and I think authors’ recommended reading orders can be useful here too.

Mostly, I prefer it to be unambiguous: gimme series numbering and a recommended reading order next to the title page, please!

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Review – Navigating With You

Posted June 28, 2026 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – Navigating With You

Navigating With You

by Jeremy Whitley, Cassio Ribeiro, Nikki Foxrobot

Genres: Graphic Novels, Romance
Pages: 220
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

Neesha Sparks is a disabled, vocal community activist with a passion for costume design. Gabby Graciana is an optimistic surfer - and, like Neesha, a new kid at school. When the two girls discover that they like the same manga series, Navigator Nozomi, they become more than just fellow new kids. But it was more than just having read the same book series--neither of them had finished it! Soon, they become new friends on a mission - to track down the remaining Navigator Nozomi books. This slice-of-life romance follows the two girls as they adventure across North Carolina to find each book, with their story intercut with the tales of Navigator Nozomi. Neesha and Gabby find more than just the books though—they find acceptance, friendship, understanding, and love.

Jeremy Whitley and Cassio Ribeiro’s Navigating With You is really cute: two girls meet, both new to the school, and end up bonding over a manga they remember reading. We get excerpts from the fictional manga (albeit read left-to-right like a Western comic) as the girls find the various volumes and get back into the story. Unsurprisingly, the lessons learned in the manga they’re reading parallel some of the stuff they need to grow on.

I loved that a lot of thought went into their backgrounds and how to bring them across, particularly for Neesha (who has a form of cerebral palsy). It strikes a balance between showing us the wholeness of who these people are and doing an Educational Bit about food from their culture or how Neesha’s mobility aids help her, etc.

The relationship that forms between Neesha and Gabby (and their families!) feels natural, and their growing support for each other was a really nice read. It’s not all feel-good — Gabby has some serious trauma to work through, while Neesha hasn’t exactly had it easy either — but I loved the journey. The character designs and art are nice, too, and the manga-style sections are reasonably convincing.

Rating: 4/5 (“really liked it”)

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Review – Dinosaur Sanctuary, vol 6

Posted June 28, 2026 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – Dinosaur Sanctuary, vol 6

Dinosaur Sanctuary

by Itaru Kinoshita

Genres: Manga, Science Fiction
Pages: 200
Series: Dinosaur Sanctuary #6
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

SUZUME MOVES ON AGAIN, AND BENKEI RETURNS!

Rookie dinokeeper Suma Suzume is continuing to make the rounds through every department in the struggling Enoshima Dinoland. Now that Umeko the Centrosaurus is out of surgery, Suzume’s time with the ceratopsians comes to an end. Can she find a way to get close to Fuzuki, the decidedly peculiar head of the pterosaur department? And what happens when Benkei, the Troodon chick she raised, scampers back into her life?

Volume six of Itaru Kinoshita’s Dinosaur Sanctuary covers Umeko’s surgery and initial recovery period, and then has Suma moving on to a rotation with the pterosaurs and visiting Benkei in the lab. There’s some really cute stuff here, and of course Suma’s usual near-magic ability to eventually get along with everyone.

We do also get a moment between Suma and Kaidou (with Karin bailing) which gives us some more interpersonal background; I kind of wondered for a second if there’s a hint of romance there? I don’t know how I’d feel about that!

Anyway, as usual, it’s a fun volume and based in science, and I enjoyed it a lot. I’m not so appreciative of the slight cliffhangers between volumes (Umeko’s prep for surgery between five and six, and now the fate of the lab between six and seven), but it makes sense as a way to keep people buying the manga…

Rating: 4/5 (“really liked it”)

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Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted June 27, 2026 by Nicky in General / 24 Comments

Happy weekend! Here’s hoping the forecast spoke true and we’ll be getting some cooler weather here, because the heat is incredible. It is definitely too bloody hot (a song which is stuck in my cranium something fierce).

Books acquired this week

I wasn’t intending to get any books this week, but I definitely wasn’t going to say no when my wife had the opportunity to grab me volume two of The Wife Comes First, and I’d been looking for volume three of Guardian for a long time and panicking about the fact that almost nowhere had it…

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I really want to get round to the next volume of The Wife Comes First sooner or later… and honestly I should start on Guardian before long, before I forget all the details of the world! The mythology is pretty complex, after all.

Posts from this week

As ever, there have been a lot of posts this week, so I’ll do a bit of a round-up. First, the reviews!

As ever, those don’t necessarily reflect this week’s reading, since I hold back reviews to try to get a diverse range over time.

Before we get into what I’ve been reading this week, here are the other posts I’ve made this week:

It’s been a lot for such a horribly hot week weather-wise! Unusually for people in the UK, my wife and I have a couple of portable A/C units, which have been lifesavers for us and the rabbits.

What I’m reading

I think last week I’d already fallen into my old habit of swapping between books after reading only a chapter or two, and rotating through that way. I’ve mostly kept that up this week, and I still think it’s working well for the way I’m feeling lately and is maybe a bit more natural to me than focusing on finishing a given book — unless the mood takes me, which it did a couple of times this week.

So without further ado, here are the books I finished reading this week:

Cover of Mistakenly Saving the Villain vol 2 by Feng Yu Nie Cover of The Queer Thing about Sin by Harry Tanner Cover of A History of Booksellers and the Bookshop by Jean-Yves Mollier Cover of The Last Escape by E.C.R. Lorac Cover of How Queer Bookshops Changed the World by A.J. West

I’m honestly impressed I finished everything, given general busyness and the heat — but my reading time was quite high this week, actually! Helped by one late night with a toothache after dental work (which fortunately settled down and was just because it was new, this time) where I couldn’t resist starting a new-to-me E.C.R. Lorac…

Anyway, this weekend I’m reading volume three of Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, have returned to Rachel Reid’s Game Changer, am knee-deep in Charlotte Booth’s Lost Voices of the Nile, and have started on Sophia Smith Galer’s How to Kill a Language. I’ll probably stick to those, though I have earmarked some library books that I really need to get round to, so it’s possible I’ll start on one of those.

Hope everyone has a good weekend — and to those in areas where it’s been really astoundingly hot, hope you’re doing alright and that the hot weather has ended or will end soon. Hang in there!

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, and It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? at The Book Date.

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Review – The Last Escape

Posted June 26, 2026 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – The Last Escape

The Last Escape

by E.C.R. Lorac

Genres: Crime, Mystery
Pages: 152
Rating: three-stars
Synopsis:

In this final detective novel to feature Superintendent Robert MacDonald, we find the police officer setting up his retirement plans on a hill farm to the south of Lunesdale. Not quite ready to retire, he buys the farm and installs a young couple to oversee his property while he's away detecting. Meanwhile, one foggy morning Rory Macshane who has just finished his first year of a 10-year prison sentence at Dartmoor sees his plans for escape come to fruition. He has hidden away bits and pieces of this and that over the past year and when the fog begins to thicken while he out on a work-gang he takes advantage of it and disappears into the mist with enough gear to help him truly escape.

About a month after the prison break, MacDonald accompanies the farmer who has been renting the adjoining land on an tour of the abandoned farm house. There they find that someone is lying dead in the house. Is it murder or an accident?

The Last Escape is actually E.C.R. Lorac’s last Macdonald novel, featuring him in Lunesdale visiting the farm he’s purchased ready for his retirement. He’s recruited by a local farmer to be an unimpeachable witness to something that might be construed as dodgy, and of course, in the process they discover the corpse of a man and the local farmer is attacked.

It’s not much of a puzzle, mystery-wise. Macdonald quickly figures out how the man entered the locked farmhouse, and the motives are pretty clear, as well as the fact that it’s tangled up with the escape of a prisoner that we see at the start of the book. As often with Lorac, what matters is the landscape and the characters, with Macdonald showcasing his usual humanity.

There’s a bit of an odd final chapter in which Macdonald talks about some regret/reservation about the prison system, declaring that he’s not a reformer but confiding his doubts about how prisoners are treated by warders etc. His opinions will come as no surprise to those used to his character, at least those who are attentive and have read a few of the Macdonald books (given that the detective’s opinions may not matter much to those just casually reading a classic mystery), but it feels a bit tacked on.

It doesn’t quite feel like it should be the last: Macdonald’s thinking of retiring, and definitely looking back at his career a little, but he’s not there yet. But this is where we’re left… All in all, not one of the best, but I enjoyed myself anyway.

Rating: 3/5 (“liked it”)

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Review – Parallax

Posted June 25, 2026 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – Parallax

Parallax

by Sinéad Morrissey

Genres: Poetry
Pages: 69
Rating: two-stars
Synopsis:

Capturing David Niven on a magical marble escalator to heaven in 1946, recording L. S. Lowry’s studio after his death, and peering into the illicit worlds of the Victorian Mutoscope, these poems document what is caught, and what is lost, when houses and cityscapes, servants and saboteurs are arrested in time by photography. Assured and unsettling, Sinéad Morrissey’s poems explore the paradoxes in what is seen, read, and misread in the surfaces of the presented world.

Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2013

I thought that SinĂ©ad Morrissey’s Parallax was technically good — several moments of “ah, I see what you did there” or “that’s interesting”, but it didn’t really sink in for me somehow? I didn’t feel any hook in the gut or particular connection with the poems, even the ones that felt quite personal (though some of these were not autobiographical, to be clear: Morrissey tries on a few different voices, but that sort of thing can still feel personal!).

It was all… fine… but I didn’t pick out anything I particularly wanted to quote or save. I guess SinĂ©ad Morrissey’s poetry isn’t quite for me, even though I found it technically good and accessible enough to read.

I’d maybe try something else by Morrissey in future, but I wouldn’t go out of my way.

Rating: 2/5 (“it was okay”)

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