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May 22, 2015
Antony Millen
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Check out that cover! 'Wake' is the latest in my ongoing review of New Zealand novels. Most of my regular blog readers will know that my posts about books are part reviews and part journal entries connecting my reading to my own thoughts, experiences and events as a writer. For over two years I've focused on reviewing New Zealand books, often by writers who have a connection to me, regardless of the genre: Taumarunui authors (Cate Sutherland, Stuart Campbell, Nix Whittaker), online connections (
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Where to start?! Firstly, I don't think I have a good enough grasp of the English language to properly describe this story. But I'll try.
Elizabeth Knox has a sublime way of storytelling. Her descriptive passages are beautiful and compelling. The characters bold and real. The sort of characters where every reader has the ability to side with a different character - which would make it an interesting and argumentative choice for a book club no doubt!
It wasn't at all what I was expecting, the blurb ...more
Elizabeth Knox has a sublime way of storytelling. Her descriptive passages are beautiful and compelling. The characters bold and real. The sort of characters where every reader has the ability to side with a different character - which would make it an interesting and argumentative choice for a book club no doubt!
It wasn't at all what I was expecting, the blurb ...more
Do not read on an empty stomach. Or a full stomach. In fact, try not to think about your stomach at all, or possibly, keep a handy bucket nearby. Or a teddy bear.
Knox's writing is as incandescent as ever and her mastery of horror - bodily, intellectual, cultural - beautifully rendered in WAKE.
Without a doubt one of my top reads from 2013. Brr. ...more
Knox's writing is as incandescent as ever and her mastery of horror - bodily, intellectual, cultural - beautifully rendered in WAKE.
Without a doubt one of my top reads from 2013. Brr. ...more
Jun 29, 2015
Kirsten McKenzie
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it was amazing
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Where to start?! Firstly, I don't think I have a good enough grasp of the English language to properly describe this story. But I'll try.
Elizabeth Knox has a sublime way of storytelling. Her descriptive passages are beautiful and compelling. The characters bold and real. The sort of characters where every reader has the ability to side with a different character - which would make it an interesting and argumentative choice for a book club no doubt!
It wasn't at all what I was expecting, the blurb ...more
Elizabeth Knox has a sublime way of storytelling. Her descriptive passages are beautiful and compelling. The characters bold and real. The sort of characters where every reader has the ability to side with a different character - which would make it an interesting and argumentative choice for a book club no doubt!
It wasn't at all what I was expecting, the blurb ...more
Wake mixes the very familiar (I know the area she's writing about and kept visualising another town on the fictional town which was extra disturbing) along with horror, SF and the supernatural. Quite a mix for a small South island community. The Kakapo were a pleasant addition giving us Bella a DOC conservationist, seemingly more interested in helping the birds survive and thrive than in her human companions. Of the characters, Theresa the community policewoman stood out along with Sam. Sam with
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Oddly paced, with the opening bizzare behavior racing and introducing too many characters too quickly.
This "under the dome" novel is a miss mash of several other story lines. ...more
This "under the dome" novel is a miss mash of several other story lines. ...more
Feb 10, 2015
Craig Sisterson
marked it as to-read
Oct 26, 2015
Damon
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Susan
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