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80% complete! eve massacre has read 16 of 20 books.
A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us
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A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us
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At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by …
At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by …
September 1913, Görbersdorf in Niederschlesien. Inmitten von Bergen steht seit einem halben Jahrhundert das erste Sanatorium für Lungenkrankheiten. Mieczysław Wojnicz, …
Linus Baker ist ein vorbildlicher Beamter. Seit Jahrzehnten arbeitet er in der Sonderabteilung des Jugendamtes, …
Irgendwie dann doch nur schmalzig. Schade.
From one of the most talented fiction writers at work today: two ambitious young musicians …
What a ride! Black music/history, appropriation and white guilt, a dash of dark magic realism, all told in a fascinating story structure. All thumbs up.
tbh at first I almost stopped reading bc of the main character's casual misogyny. It is very male gaze-ish, but this book excels in giving you characters that make you feel overall uncomfy and still it sucks you in and you can't stop reading.
And it has such a good depiction of the toxicity of rare record collectors scenes and their weird gatekeeping and power structures. Bringing back memories, damn.
What a ride! Black music/history, appropriation and white guilt, a dash of dark magic realism, all told in a fascinating story structure. All thumbs up.
tbh at first I almost stopped reading bc of the main character's casual misogyny. It is very male gaze-ish, but this book excels in giving you characters that make you feel overall uncomfy and still it sucks you in and you can't stop reading.
And it has such a good depiction of the toxicity of rare record collectors scenes and their weird gatekeeping and power structures. Bringing back memories, damn.
A brilliant, graphic novel written by young but promising Patrick Ness. This is the story …
Well-told modern folk tale. A children's story about dealing with death and a good read for adults too. I like how Ness uses the Green Man as mentor and monster. A relationship with a yew tree used by a boy's imagination to get in touch with himself.
Well-told modern folk tale. A children's story about dealing with death and a good read for adults too. I like how Ness uses the Green Man as mentor and monster. A relationship with a yew tree used by a boy's imagination to get in touch with himself.
From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an …
This was a fun read. I enjoyed the ideas Natasha Pulley has put into worldbuilding: How would people change when living on Mars, as society and physically? How would languages and tech evolve? The actual story is a wee bit too YA soap lit for my taste but it was a fun read!
I like the climate, social and economical warning of a dystopian world Michelle Min Sterling wrote. I like the three story lines, the way the story is build. I love how it is all about community, about people working together to change something instead of the standard hero*ine narrative.
I agree with other reviewers that the end is a bit of a mess, and characters are not very fleshed out, but I still think it is special and worth a read for the world the author builds. It is a debut novel and I for one am curious what Michelle Min Sterling will write next!
I liked Julia Armfield‘s Salt Slow, a New Weird short stories book, a lot. So I looked forward to reading her new novel Our Wives Under the Sea: Body horror, deep sea sciency mystery and a lesbian love story – how could I resist? I wasn’t disappointed. Those who expect your average YA story might be. Or you could let it open up a world of different styles of writing to you. This novel is far closer to Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation than to Guillermo de Toro’s Shape of Water if you’re one for comparisons.
This book is rough and subtle at the same time, more sea glass than diamond, that is part of what made it such an enjoyable read to me. Julia Armfield shines in slowly describing the otherwordly (and the ocean still is pretty much an other world to us, isn’t it?) transformation of Leah, the deep sea …
I liked Julia Armfield‘s Salt Slow, a New Weird short stories book, a lot. So I looked forward to reading her new novel Our Wives Under the Sea: Body horror, deep sea sciency mystery and a lesbian love story – how could I resist? I wasn’t disappointed. Those who expect your average YA story might be. Or you could let it open up a world of different styles of writing to you. This novel is far closer to Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation than to Guillermo de Toro’s Shape of Water if you’re one for comparisons.
This book is rough and subtle at the same time, more sea glass than diamond, that is part of what made it such an enjoyable read to me. Julia Armfield shines in slowly describing the otherwordly (and the ocean still is pretty much an other world to us, isn’t it?) transformation of Leah, the deep sea diver who returns to her wife Miri after an accident that forced her to live under the sea for months. Or rather: She luring us around this transformation.
Couldn't keep it short, so I wrote about it here:
https://evemassacre.de/blog/2025/05/09/longing-to-lose-oneself-our-wives-under-the-sea-by-julia-armfield/
Das Buch der Stunde: Der bekannte Politikaktivist Arne Semsrott zeigt, was passiert, wenn Rechtsextremisten an …
Wenn ihr es nicht eh schon gelesen habt: Holt das unbedingt nach! Schmerzhaft realistische Einschätzungen, aber vor allem ein Mut machender und inspirierender Ratgeber mit Ideen für konkrete Handlungsmöglichkeiten auf ganz viel verschiedenen Ebenen gegen die Rechten. Großartig.
