Pink Fiction Club

  One thing about me is that I have FOMO, so I will read almost everything that I see is popular just to see what all the cool people are talking about.  Morgenstern's prose is magnificent, truly a lyrical experience in the prose. Her sentences are lush, gorgeous and they truly feel like poetry at times. Her writing made me want to purchase a physical copy of this book just so that I could underline them and keep her sentences in my head. However, the problem is that this is not a 600 page epic poem, but a novel. Unfortunately, I found myself getting kind of bored at times. The overall idea is absolutely fantastic, but I wish it had better editing. Shaving off like a third of this book would have made me enjoy it so much more.  The descriptive nature of the overall story became repetitive after a while. The amount of time the author mentioned bees and honey in the last 100 pages made me start hearing buzzing.   I am not a stranger to a novel that does not reveal...

  This book was another one that I picked up because I read about it everywhere on the internet. It was advertised as a sapphic novel with elements of body horror and mystery. I am not the biggest fan of any kind of horror, least of all body horror, but the more positive reviews I have read, the more interested I was in finding out what was happening in this novel. I finished it a few weeks ago, and I am still not completely sure how I feel about it. ‘Our Wives Under the Sea’ is the debut novel by Julia Armfield and it follows the story of two women- Miri and Leah. Leah has just returned from the deep sea mission that went badly and took longer than anticipated. Although Miri is excited about her wife returning, it becomes painfully obvious really quickly that something is seriously wrong with Leah. As the story progresses, the narrative is intertwined between the present day falling apart of their marriage and Leah and their past as we try to piece together this story and understa...