There’s no such thing as a bad student, only bad teachers- Cobra Kai review!

Not sure if anyone was a fan of the Karate Kid back in the day, but it was one of my all time favourite films growing up. Recently I discovered that a TV series has been made, featuring the same characters of Daniel Larusso and Johnny Lawrence (the latter was the one who was Daniel's …

Homer’s epics in an epic new form- why you have to read Madeline Miller’s novels!

So I’m reviewing these two books together because like the two stories they are based on, the Iliad and the Odyssey, they are two parts. Before I dive right into these incredible books and pull apart their layers of sweet, pomegranate flesh, let me just preface by saying that as both an English and Ancient …

The Power

“It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.” ‘Feminism has gone too far.’ ‘Feminists just want more power than men.’ ‘Feminists are all so angry.’ Most feminists have had to respond to these critiques of …

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

"He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy’s song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself." My best friend gave me a copy of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell …

Children of Blood and Bone

Best-selling fantasy often embodies leitmotifs of the west: dragons, chivalry, medievalism and patriarchal structures that govern both the political and magical landscapes of second worlds. Even the giants of fantasy that seek to represent women as more than passive, empty characters often fall short of the task: GOT’s female characters perform in the binary roles …