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Paper Thistle Book Reviews
At Paper Thistle, we write a review for every book we sell, specialising in Scottish fiction. Each review considers character, writing style, tone, and overall reading experience, offering a thoughtful introduction to what awaits on the page.
Book Review: The Winter Sea Black Tide Son
The sea rises, the tide turns and freedom costs more than treasure—The Winter Sea: Black[...]
Book Review: The Witch’s Heart
Surviving immolation, banishment and prophecy—Angrboda rebuilds in the forest, mothers monsters and faces gods. The[...]
Book Review: The Tangleroot Palace
Seven spellbound stories—bodyguards for sorceresses, witch-apprentices, fleeing princesses—The Tangleroot Palace is myth, magic and revenge[...]
Book Review: The Hunting Moon
Winnie returned to her rightful place among the hunter elite—yet everything still feels wrong. Bodies[...]
Book Review: Unquiet
When the vanished brother-in-law returns to the house, Judith realises the quiet world she knew[...]
Book Review: The Winter Duke
When a curse freezes her entire family, Ekata becomes the Winter Duke overnight—unready, unarmed, but[...]
Book Review: Unhallowed Halls
At the elite Agathion College, Page seeks refuge—but finds classrooms humming with ancient philosophy, corridors[...]
Book Review: The Bookshop on the Corner
Jobless but undaunted, Nina drives a van full of books to the Highlands, bringing stories—and[...]
Book Review: Witch Light
Condemned as a witch, Corrag speaks her truth from a cold Highland cell—of storms, mountains[...]
Book Review: Where the Missing Gather
In Burrowhead’s windswept fields the past stirs: bones are unearthed, a horse is ritually killed[...]