📝 First Impressions There are writers whose work you admire, and there are writers whose voices feel immediately recognisable. Oliviu Craznic belongs to the second category for me. Even when the stories differ in subject, scale or mood, they carry…
📝 First Impressions Doctor Sleep is the long-awaited continuation of The Shining, but it is not simply a repetition of the earlier novel. Stephen King takes Danny Torrance—the frightened child at the centre of The Shining—and follows him into adulthood,…
📝 First Impressions The Ocean at the End of the Lane feels, from its very first pages, like a story remembered rather than a story simply told. Neil Gaiman takes an adult narrator back to the place where he grew…
📝 First Impressions Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Other Stories is the kind of book that appears deceptively simple at first. The sentences are often clear, the situations are presented with an almost calm precision, and the stories rarely explain themselves…
📝 First Impressions I first came across The Blood Lives through Lee Isserow’s ABAM project — A Book A Month. At the time, I was not really familiar with ARCs or with the whole idea of receiving advance copies directly…
📝 First Impressions The title Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil was the first thing that caught my attention. It sounded dark, poetic and mysterious, although I somehow did not expect the novel to be about vampires. Looking back…
📝 First Impressions I already knew I wanted to return to this world before I even opened Malorie. I had enjoyed both Bird Box as a book and its film adaptation, so continuing with the second novel felt less like…
đź“ť First Impressions Reading ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King felt like watching one of the greatest horror writers in history discover exactly what made his storytelling so unique. Considering that this was only Stephen King’s second published novel, it’s an…
đź“ť First Impressions Revisiting Carrie by Stephen King always feels like returning to one of the foundations of modern horror. Although I’ve read this novel several times over the years and watched multiple film adaptations, the original story continues to…