Train of Thought

  • ‘Brutes’ – Dizz Tate, review

    We would not be born out of sweetness, we were born out of rage, we felt it in our bones. In Falls Landing, Florida—a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers—something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher’s daughter, Sammy. She is…

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  • ‘The Blue Ticket’ – Sophie Mackintosh, review

    Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. A blue ticket grants you a career and freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice.…

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  • Barbie and the Palatable Representation of Feminism

    The first time I thought to myself, I wish I had been born a boy because they have it so much easier, I was seven years old. There’d been an argument with my grandmother about why the boys never had to participate in household chores – a small and trite remark about how that’s just what boys…

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  • ‘The Hunting Party’ – Lucy Foley, review

    In a remote hunting lodge, deep in the Scottish wilderness, old friends gather for New Year.  EVERYONE’S INVITED. EVERYONE’S A SUSPECT. The beautiful oneThe golden coupleThe volatile oneThe new parentsThe quiet oneThe city boyThe outsider The victim. Not an accident – a murder among friends. Rating (out of 5 stars): 2.5 I’ve been in a reading slump for…

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