Welcome to the fifth issue of Scuttlebook from your friendly neighborhood book reviewer. As well as the literary criticism I know that you’re here for the real tea, so here we go.  This month I’m bringing you the story of the time I wrote a review of a

Welcome to the third issue of Scuttlebook, and the first to be paywalled. This is an experiment so we’ll see how it goes. Why are so many of our historical novels so mediocre? I’ve been reviewing books professionally now for a dozen years. When I was looking over