Pink Fiction Club

  I have not heard of this book at all until I have seen two of my best friends read ‘Follow Me to Ground’ and love it on Goodreads. As I trust their judgment, I decided to give this one a go. I have not had a very good reading month in September, so I was very excited to announce I have adored everything about this novel and found it incredibly eerie, haunting and magnificent all in one. The book is very ambiguous, but I believe it gives the reader just enough clues to follow the narrative and understand the horrifying things happening in the novel. It is one of the best uses of magical realism I have read in a long time and I truly hope that Sue Rainsford’s other work (that I will definitely be reading) is just as successful as ‘Follow Me to Ground’ The novel follows Ada and her father, who are not entirely human, but creatures who have the ability to heal humans, or ‘Cures’ as they call them of most illnesses, either by breaking them apart or burying them in the ground and allow...

  I am not even sure where I came across this book, but the title and the overall plot looked interesting enough to download it on my kindle. Additionally, I have been on a mission to read a bit more books outside of my usual genres and cannons, so a contemporary novel by a well renowned Japanese author seemed like a very good idea for that. However, I believe that I was simply not the right audience for ‘Lonely Castle in The Mirror’. It is far from a bad book, but at times I found it quite childish and not mature enough to be dealing with the themes it has tackled. I do have to put a disclaimer here that I am thirty years old, while the characters in the novel are much much younger than that, as they are all pre teens. In that sense, it is logical that I would not relate entirely to them and their problems and I could imagine that somebody much younger would appreciate this book more than I did. Also, I have read this in English translation, so I am leaving the option that some o...