B+ Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Rome / family relationships / female detectives / First-Person / Flavia Albia series / Historical / historical mystery / murder mystery / murder-investigation / organized crime / Private-investigator4 Comments
In Rome, 89 A.D., poisonings, murders, and a bloody gang war of retribution breaks out during the festival of Saturnalia, and when her husband, Tiberius, becomes a target, it’s time for Flavia Albia to take matters into her own hands — in Lindsey Davis’s next historical mystery, A Comedy of ... more >
B- Reviews / Book ReviewsChronicles of Rhyacia / duology / Elder Races / novella / PNR / SFF1 Comments
Dear Thea Harrison, The Unseen, released last year, was originally planned to be the first of 4 linked (serialised?) novellas, a spin-off of the Elder Races series, set in the fictional Other Land of Rhyacia. As it happened, due to events since then, The Chronicles of Rhyacia was reimagined as ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1860s / activism / feminism / health care / Historical Biography / mental illness / non-fiction11 Comments
Dear Kate Moore, I listened to your first book, The Radium Girls back in 2018 and was enthralled by it. (It’s a fantastic book but hard to hear because of the infuriating and tragic content.) So when I saw you had a new book coming out I snapped it up. ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsParanormal / POC author / psy / Psy-Changeling Trinity Series8 Comments
Jennie: A few statistics – Number of Psy/Changeling novels including the Trinity series: 20 Number of Psy/Changeling Trinity books: 5 Number of books in the series Janine and I have reviewed together: 9 including this one Chapter 1 of Last Guard opens with our heroine, Payal Rao, being described as ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsastronauts / immigrants / inventors / NASA / non-fiction / science / space flight2 Comments
8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon’s left eye, landed at its edge, and ... more >
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I run a virtual book club for seniors, volunteering for a non-profit (check it out and see if you’d like to help, or consider participating in the national village movement closer to your home), and we take turns picking out the books we read. One of the advantages this has ... more >