Review of Michelle Good’s “Five Little Indians”
by Shelley McAneeley Five Little Indians by Michelle Good Harper Perennial (2020) Michelle Good reminds me of my grandfather and the time when storytellers spun words into magic. Five Little…
Review of G.A Grisenthwaite’s “Home Waltz”
By Crystal Mackenzie Home Waltz by G.A Grisenthwaite Palimpsest Press (2020) Set in 1973, in a town near Kamloops B.C, Home Waltz by G.A Grisenthwaite is a typical coming of…
Review of Mark Sampson’s “All the Animals on Earth”
By Skylar Kay All the Animals on Earth by Mark Sampson Wolsak and Wynn (2020) Mark Sampson’s All The Animals On Earth is like if Orwell had mashed Animal Farm and…
Review of Mike Thorn’s “Shelter for the Damned”
By Vincent Potter Shelter for the Damned by Mike Thorn JournalStone (2021) “They sat for hours, talking dirty in the rot and gloom. Mark had never taken so long to smoke a…
Review of Marcello Di Cintio’s “Driven”
By Annie Wesko Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers by Marcello Di Cintio Biblioasis (2021) Marcello Di Cintio writes of so many immigrant taxi drivers who had seen war…
Review of Leona Theis’ “If Sylvie Had Nine Lives”
By Annie Wesko If Sylvie Had Nine Lives by Leona Theis Freehand Books (2020) If Sylvie Had Nine Lives is Leona Theis’s third book, a novel in nine stories written in…
Review of Doreen Vanderstoop’s “Watershed”
By Vincent Potter Watershed by Doreen Vanderstoop Freehand Books (2020) ISBN: 9781988298597 The dystopia in Doreen Vanderstoop’s Watershed is one worryingly reasonable: it’s 2058, no one has enough water, and being…
Review of Jason Guriel’s “Forgotten Work”
by Micheline Maylor Forgotten Work Jason Guriel Biblioasis Press (2020) ISBN: 978-1-77196-382-4 Trolling twitter, I find this on Jason Guriel’s feed: “When I started writing nobody rhymed-it was in utter disrepute.…
Review of Lauren Carter’s “This Has Nothing To Do With You”
by Skylar Kay This Has Nothing To Do With Youby Lauren CarterFreehand Books (2019)ISBN: 9781988298542 “We were a family that kept secrets.” This quote, which opens a section late in the…
Review of Anita Lahey’s “The Last Goldfish”
by Skylar Kay The Last Goldfish Anita Lahey Octopus Books (2020) ISBN: 9781771963435 Some books are page turners, keeping readers asking, ‘How will this end? I need to know!’ Lahey’s…