In ‘Before the Coffee Gets Cold’ we visit a small café in Tokyo, however, this café offers its customers the opportunity to travel back in time. We meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer. This novel is split into four chapters, one for each visitor wishing […]
‘Breasts and Eggs’ is Mieko Kawakami’s first full-length novel translated into English. The book is split into two parts. In part one we follow thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko’s twelve-year-old daughter, Midoriko. Natsu is a failing writer, Makiko is in search of breast enhancement surgery, and Midoriko has fallen into communicating only […]
Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. We follow our protagonist, Mordred Foley, an unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.I have played my fair share of visual novel games, and I must admit, […]
The Flatshare is Beth O’Leary’s debut novel. It follows Tiffy and Leon, who share a one-bedroom flat; Leon occupies the flat while Tiffy’s at work during the day and Tiffy has the run of the place the rest of the time. Tiffy and Leon have never met. I had seen many people I follow on […]
I’m not quite sure where to start. My father runs this website, and this book is a little * spicy * so to speak. However, there is a reason I want to talk about this book, and why I read it in the first place. So, father, if this makes you uncomfortable, avert your eyes. […]
When I tell you, I feel like I’m 13 again, I mean it. When Stephanie Meyer announced that she was finally releasing Midnight Sun (Twilight from Edward’s perspective,) ten years after she announced she would never release it (due to that draft being leaked online) I screamed. Literally. I forced my entire flat to watch all […]
‘Seers Isle’ is a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval Northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters and your ultimate freedom. The game begins with a group of shaman apprentices setting foot on the shores of a sacred island to be initiated to magic. As they […]
‘Along the Edge’ is a visual novel set in the European countryside, where your choices impact the main character’s personality and appearance. The game begins with our protagonist, Daphné Delatour, inheriting a huge manor house out in the countryside from her grandmother that she never met. It is from here that players can chose our […]
Jenny LeClue Detectivú is an adventure game developed and published by Mografi. The basic plot of the game is: less-than-celebrated author, Arthur K. Finklestein has written over thirty books in the Jenny LeClue series; however, sales are plummeting and his publishers are demanding something different, they want Jenny to solve a murder. Arthur eventually caves […]
When people talk about or mention Breakfast at Tiffany’s they most likely think of the movie starring the legend that is Audrey Hepburn. I mean, who could forget the iconic opening scene in the black dress at pearls, eating a croissant outside of Tiffany’s. (Honestly, who could forget all of the iconic fashion in that […]
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