A crime novel about some deaths at a boarding school. I really enjoyed this book. The story was easy to read, the plot was interesting, solution was not too obvious, everything was wrapped up well at the end and a likeable main character.
Based on the Māori pūrākau about the battle between the sea birds and land birds. Beautifully written in Witi Ihimaera's poetic style, with a main character who discovers she has to fufill an ancient prophecy. Loved it!
Didn't finish. Couldn't get into this one.
A biography of the Lawson quintuplets. Was an interesting book, but the writing feels chaotic which definitely mirrors the events in their lives!
Witi Ihimaera's first novel and the first novel published by a Māori author in Aotearoa. Beautifully written.
A light, very easy read book.
A really ecelctic mix of stories, so some I loved and some not so much...
Story is based around friends at a backyard barbecue and there is a tragic incident. It does follow the point-of-view of different characters and dissects their lives in lots of detail, and it has a plot twist at the end. But, I didn't enjoy this as much as Liane Moriarty's other books.
I've enjoyed lots of other books by this author as they are funny, light, entertaining reads, but I read this book just a week after the author died from a brain tumour, and discovered that this short novel is based on her own experiences with cancer. It was a sad, sweet book.
The review said "An enchanting novel about a pair of long-lost childhood friends who find themselves magically linked through origami flowers as adults." Was an easy read, quite a sweet story.