Macleans College

125,043 pages read and 3,297 team points

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The Lost Bookshop

By Evie Woods

4 stars

Historical fantasy fiction. A mystery search for a manuscript set alongside romance, tragedy, magic and lots of books.
GABRIEL'S BAY

By CATHERINE ROBERTSON

3 stars

An enjoyable read about a seaside community. big cast of characters who experience romances, petty squabbles, camaraderie and dodgy dealings. Recognizable NZ idioms and lively figurative language add believability and interest to the soap opera.
Picasso and the greatest show on earth

By Anna Fienberg

3 stars

For readers 10 to 13 years of age. Mental health and mourning are addressed through the protagonist's love of art, friendship with two special people and her dog Picasso. It deals with grief and the power of art beautifully. It ends with resolution of conflict and happy families that younger readers would expect.
Home for Christmas

By Heidi Swain

1 stars

A feel good romance full of tropes: enemies to lovers; a grinch and a Christmas fairy; and a believer in true love versus a guarded serial flinger. It should have been pure escapism but it itemised chores and used the phrase "a normal house cleaning day". That did not create Christmas magic for this reader.
James

By Percival Everett

5 stars

A riff off Huckleberry Finn. The adventures are narrated by the cognizant and erudite runaway slave, Jim. Enlightenment into 19th century America for Huck, and the reader, is delivered through reinterpretation of the adventures and characters through Jim's dual vernacular, metaphor and allusion. This 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction has been accurately reviewed as a novel that is both "funny and horrifying".
The Ministry of Time

By Kaliane Bradley

5 stars

It is narrated by a character who is deeeply in love, is naiive and honest despite being culpable in the events that unfold. It sits across the genres of sci-fi, romance, mystery and historical fiction. Believable characters and engaging.
Time loops and meet cutes

By Jackie Lau

1 stars

Romance novel where the protagonist repeatedly relives June 20th after eating a magical dumpling. Protagonists are of Asian descent and it is set in Canada. It is interesting to consider one's approach to life if there were no consequences. But, the plot was repetitive.

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