Tag: Australian Writers

Her Tortured Beasts

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Author: E.P. Bali

Series: Her Vicious Beasts

First Published: 28 March 2025

Rating: 5 out of 5.

“Thank the Goddess for that. Promise me we’ll scheme together from now on.”  

I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to E.P. Bali for sending a copy my way!

I will try and keep my review as spoiler free as possible but just be wary if you haven’t read the first three books, Her Feral Beasts, Her Rabid Beasts & Her Psycho Beasts.

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Her Psycho Beasts

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Author: E.P. Bali

Series: Her Vicious Beasts

First Published: 26 September 2024

Rating: 5 out of 5.

“You make everything better, I want to say. And make everything so much worse.”

I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to E.P. Bali for sending a copy my way!

I will try and keep my review as spoiler free as possible but just be wary if you haven’t read the first two books, Her Feral Beasts & Her Rabid Beasts.

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Songbird of the Sorrows

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Author: Braidee Otto

Series: Myths of the Empyrieos

First Published: 18 June 2024

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

“We don’t get to choose the things that happen to us. Those decisions lie solely in fate. What we do get to choose is how we respond to them. Whether we stay the same or let them change us.”

I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Braidee for sending a copy my way!

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West Girls

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Author: Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Publisher: Scribe Publications

First Published: 01 August 2023

Rating: 4 out of 5.

“What grated the most was the realisation that maybe it had never been about talent, or beauty, or some indefinable golden quality. It has always been bullshit.”  

I will start by saying that I was given a copy in exchange for an honest review. Thank so much to the wonderful team over at Scribe for sending a copy my way!

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What Happens on Tour

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Author: Luci Fer

First Published: 15 August 2021

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

“Charlie, you’re as important as the music. I won’t choose. I want to find a way where both live parallel in my world. You and my band are all that matter.”

I will start by saying that I was given a copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Luci for sending a copy my way!

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Devotion

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Author: Hannah Kent

Publisher: Picador Australia

First Published: 26 October 2021

Rating: 5 out of 5.



“Love runs through her like a seam of gold. It runs through me, too, we are illuminated.”  

I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Picador Australia and Netgalley for sending a copy my way!

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The Newcomer

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Author: Laura Elizabeth Wollett

Publisher: Scribe

First Published: 02 July 2021

Rating: 5 out of 5.



“People destroy other people for no reason.”  

I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to wonderful people at Scribe for sending a copy my way!

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Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow

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Author: Jessica Townsend

Publisher: Lothian Children’s Books

First Published: 30 October 2018

Rating: 5 out of 5.







“These were supposed to be her brothers and sisters. Loyal for life. But with a single word, they were looking at her as if she was their enemy.”  

This is a sequel; I will try and keep my review as spoiler free as possible but just be wary if you haven’t read first book, Nevermore: The Trails of Morrigan Crow.

Also if you haven’t read the first book, you should it’s all kinds of awesome!

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