Ivan Tomašić, Booksa

Bloodstream is more than a good prosaic debut by Darko Šeparović. The cleverly used motifs of Portugal gave a good emotional note, one of melancholy, without falling into pathos and exoticism. Aware that ethnonational identity cannot be reduced to a literary text, and also aware of the fact that not even a literary text can be reduced to a measure of identity, Šeparović wrote a thoughtful, elaborate, and cleverly composed novel, of excellent plot and composition.

Vesna Solar, Moderna vremena

Irena Tot’s Experiment is a truly good novel. The final rating would be: must read, as much as because of pure enjoying in the text as because of the its theme that concerns us all, like it or not.

 

Mirko Božić, Moderna vremena

'Festival' is a kind of literary garden, full of mulberries, roses, hortensias, black locusts. They are an excellent colourful counterpart to the dark tones of the rest of the book, providing almost a necessary point to vent out. Blažević perfectly imagines the situations in which her characters find themselves. The landscape is lost in the rain and fog, but it’s still clearly contoured, from the interior all the way to the riverbank and the railroad tracks.

What [Dino Pešut] has to say perhaps isn’t what everybody would like to hear, which is why Bruised Knees isn’t an easy read, but Pešut definitely is one of those naturally gifted writers who have their way with words.

 

Slobodna Dalmacija on Little Red Riding Hood

Pavičić's Little Red Riding Hood is a bedtime story even though adult fairy-tales are not meant to lull us to sleep... Pavičić doesn't write in order to wake us up, either. He just turns off the light in Croatia, the illusion of a fairy-tale and says: good night.

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