Hello! I wrote this and I think it's quite good. As a writer you always hope you get better with each book, and I hope that's what I've done here. SapHello! I wrote this and I think it's quite good. As a writer you always hope you get better with each book, and I hope that's what I've done here. Sapphic, gothic and from the heart, just as Bitterthorn was, Hungerstone is a darker, harsher story and I'm quite proud of it.
Hungerstone is a sharp, angry book about hunger, appetite, anger and agency. Wild moorland, sinister houses, monstrous hunger - I wanted to lean into everything I love about gothic, historical horror. It came out in a rush over two months, frenetic and burning me up. Lenore isn't a good person, but I hope she's someone you can understand. She has lived locked out of her own life, her own wants and desires and needs for so long she can barely understand what they are: until Carmilla arrives.
The lesbian vampire: cliche, and revelation.
This one is for the feral girlies, for everyone who has ever wanted to take the world in their mouth and bite.
I know it's a bit cringe when authors review their own books, but I can live with being a bit cringe. I wanted to take the opportunity to tell you a lI know it's a bit cringe when authors review their own books, but I can live with being a bit cringe. I wanted to take the opportunity to tell you a little bit about Bitterthorn and why I wrote it. I think it's the best thing I've written so far, and I hope you like it too.
I wrote and revised Bitterthorn in the months after my mother's death, when I was living alone during a year and a half of off and on lockdown in London. As a survivor of childhood abuse and neglect, isolation and loneliness have been old, painful acquaintances. This time, it was a pain almost unbearable. All I knew to do was write.
Bitterthorn is a story about loneliness, and how monstrous we can feel when we are isolated and unloved. How hard it is to believe ourselves real people, deserving of love and happiness. How hard it is to know hope. But hope is where I wanted to write myself into. The story of Mina and her Witch is ultimately one of hope, of the salvation of love, and the bravery to believe in it.
On a lighter moment, there's also heaps of sapphic yearning, grumpy x sunshine, a strange and sinister castle, terrible flirting, cottage core vibes, slowburn enemies to loves and a secret that threatens to destroy everything Mina and the Witch have found in each other.
Meet your new obsession. MINDWALKER is the whip-sharp, heart-racing sci-fi dystopian thriller you didn't know you needed.
There's so much I can rave aMeet your new obsession. MINDWALKER is the whip-sharp, heart-racing sci-fi dystopian thriller you didn't know you needed.
There's so much I can rave about in this book: Sil Sarrah! the plot! the worldbuilding! Sil Sarrah! The romance! The twists! Sil Sarrah! Yes Sil Sarrah is my all time fave and I will hear no arguments. Her personality shines through in the perfectly crafted prose, part teen Tony Stark part Blade Runner fever dream, I fell in love with her from the first page.
The plot is perfectly balanced high-stakes action with deftly executed twists, at once smart and stylish, and raw and brutal. Dylan pulls no punches and you don't want her to. There's the kind of world building that makes a story fresh and exciting, the kind of place you really want to visit (holo parks yes please!) even though I'd probably get some kind of pollution poisoning in three minutes flat.
The best review of this book I can give is that I read it in the bath and was so obsessed I didn't get out til the water was stone cold.
If you're looking for something fast-paced and gripping, and yet deeply emotionally satisfying and also kinda horny, here is the book for you!!...more
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