My reading year was up and down – a big slump in the middle didn’t help and the stress of moving house right near the end of the year meant I turned to comfort reads for the last 2 months or so. (In this time I read Kristen Ashley books ... more >
Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs Patricia Briggs latest’s installment in Mercy series Soul Taken was a book I anticipated because I like the author. I LOVED it. Reviewed by Kaetrin. A Contracted Spouse for the Prizefighter by Alice Coldbreath This year I did discovered Alice Coldbreath and A Contracted Spouse ... more >
CW: graphic violence and torture Dear Patricia Briggs, Soul Taken mostly doesn’t reference the events in Wild Sign and certainly not in a spoilery way. But it’s clear that this book takes place at around the same time as or just after the epilogue in last year’s release. Something that ... more >
Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light This was probably my favorite book of the year. I don’t read m/m romance much, but this book had me hooked. Full of angst and tension, containing a swoon worthy romance and with a very compelling magical world, it was hard to put down. The ... more >
It’s a cliché to comment on how quickly a year has passed and in the Covid era the months sometimes pass slowly. 2021 wasn’t an easy year so I’m glad I found some great books to make it feel a little lighter. There weren’t an entire ten but I’ve had ... more >
CW: sexual assault, incest, infanticide, forced pregnancy, child death, graphic violence, pet death Dear Patricia Briggs, I’ve been a big fan of your books for many years now. In fact, in the hell year that was 2020, I did a comfort re-read of all of the Mercy Thompson world books ... more >