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A thoughtful and lovely review. Thanks Laura!

WAITAHA Reviews:

How to Get a Girlfriend When You're a Terrifying Monster
By Marie Cardno Marie Cardno
Paper Road Press Paper Road Press

It’s hard to explain exactly what this book is. It’s a delightful chunk of action-packed story. Its a validation of q***r relationships. It’s a one-sitting wonder. My best explanation so far is to imagine Heartbreaker without the pictures, but with young women, one of whom is a witch and one of whom is a part of an alien organism. These two meet, develop feelings and then save the world. What more could you want?
There is so much charm in the genuinely weird characters and weirdly familiar setting (Dunedin, rather than the other setting … an alien void). I had a great time reading it.
Kids who love fan fiction, who read q***r stories and who like the unusual will love this. Its length means it's perfect for personal reading. It’s bold to publish a book of just over a 100 pages, one that can be read in a single sitting. As books, especially young adult books, balloon out to hundreds and hundreds of pages, we’re also seeing a reduction in how often our young people choose to read books. Let’s get them hooked with books like this–fun, playful, readable, and achievable.

Reviewed by Laura.

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Help! A stack of books has trapped me inside my house!

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Octavia Cade spoke at Wairarapa Word last weekend, talking about her writing and telling weird and wonderful (and frequently creepy and disturbing) stories about science - fiction and non-fiction.

Thanks to Wairarapa Word for hosting Octavia, and Almo's Books for running book sales at the session. If you missed out, pop along to Almo's Books to pick up one of Octavia's books and discover a New Zealand author who puts the science in science fiction!

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Our latest newsletter is out, celebrating six Sir Julius Vogel Award shortlistings and sharing some personal news!

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Today's mission: tetris my way to a better use of shelf space.

Anyone want to buy some books?

Looking back at a good-looking book - our first publication of 2020 was The Stone Wētā by Octavia Cade.

What are you reading this weekend?

(Photo of Andi C Buchanan's novella 'From a Shadow Grave')

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