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Review: A Botanical Daughter -
Genre: Magical realism, horror, classics-retold Published: Titan Books, March 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars “A family! Simon, of course!...
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Review: Now She is Witch - Kirsty Logan
Genre: Magical Realism/Fantasy Published: Harvill Secker, January 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “Perhaps coming so close to death, then...
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Review: Mothtown - Caroline Hardaker
Genre: Magical Realism, Horror, Speculative Published: Angry Robot Press, November 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars “No. This was a truth that I...
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Review: Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit - Jen Campbell
Genre: Poetry Published: Bloodaxe Books, September 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars, potential new all-time favourite <I>"The hospital is not a...
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Review: Swim Home to the Vanished - Brendan Shay Basham
Genre: Magical Realism Published: Harper Collins, August 2023 My rating: 4.5/5 stars "When you lose someone close, you travel to the...
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Review: Summer Fishing in Lapland - Juhani Karila
Genre: magical realism Published: Pushkin Press, July 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars Summer Fishing in Lapland has been out for a few years...
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Review: Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger
Genre: Magical Realism, Young-Adult Published: Levine Querido, August 2020 My Rating: 5/5 stars, all-time favourite Elatsoe (both the...
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Review: Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves - Quinn Connor
Genre: Magical Realism, horror Published: Sourcebooks Landmark, May 30th 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars "The dead have a tight grip on this...
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Review: Wolfwood - Marianna Baer
Genre: Young Adult contemporary, magical realism Published: Amulet Books/Tantor Audio, March 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “What does it...
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Review: The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts - Soraya Porter
Genre: Magical Realism Published: Viper Publishing, March 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "See once upon a time there was a woman. And this...
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Review: Monstrilio - Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Genre: Speculative horror Published: Zando Projects, March 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars "He wasn’t Monstrilio anymore, but he wasn’t...
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Review: Catfish Rolling - Clara Kumagai
Genre: Magical Realism, Science fiction, Grief Published: Zephyr, March 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars, potential new favourite "In the zone,...
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Review: We Are All So Good At Smiling - Amber McBride
Genre: Novel in Verse Published: Feiwel Friends, January 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars "My point is that a leaf knows it’s important at all...
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Review: The Alchemy of Letting Go - Amber Morrell
Genre: Middle-grade, Magical Realism Published: Albert Whitman & Company, March 2023 Actual Rating: 2.5/5 stars The Alchemy of Letting Go...
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Review: Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Genre: magical realism, literary fiction Published: Picador Press, September 2019, (first published December 2015 in the original...
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Review: The Women Could Fly - Megan Giddings
Genre: Literary Fiction, Dystopian Published: Pan MacMillan, August 2022 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “This is the story of the witch who...
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Review: The Weight of Loss - Sally Oliver
Genre: Magical Realism, Horror Published: Oneworld Publishers, June 2022 My rating: 2/5 stars Whilst grieving the death of her sister,...
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Review: The Seawomen - Chloe Timms
Genre: Literary Fiction, Magical Realism Published: Hodder & Stoughton, June 2022 My Rating: 4/5 stars If Kirsty Logan is going to...
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Review: Lakelore - Anna-Marie McLemore
Review of Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore, 4/5 stars, Magical Realism, March 2022 release, rep: LGBTQ, neurodiversity, latinx, own-voices
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Review: Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
The FictionFox reviews Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield. 5/5 stars. Many thanks to Picador and the author for providing me with an
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