Book Reviews / C- ReviewsArmy / Assasin Hero / Contemporary / Nazis / revenge2 Comments
In this propulsive historical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Escaping Dreamland, a librarian and a professional assassin team up to solve a seventy-five-year-old Nazi mystery and stop a nefarious opponent from wreaking havoc on the world. When small-town librarian Patton Harcourt comes under fire one morning ... more >
Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsFantasy RomanceNo Comments
Note: Some spoilers for Dragon Unleashed follow. Dear Grace Draven, Raven Unveiled is the third book in your Fallen Empire series. It features Siora, a shade-speaker (she can communicate with ghosts) who had a brief role in Phoenix Unbound and a bigger one in Dragon Unleashed, and Gharek of Cabast, ... more >
B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviewsf/f romance / Historical / Historical Fantasy / murder mystery / shipboard / The Last Binding seriesNo Comments
Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! The second entry in Freya Marske’s beloved The Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light The most interesting things in Maud Blyth’s life have happened to her brother Robin, but she’s ready to join any cause, especially if it ... more >
Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsAvalon Bay / Contemporary / NetGalley / second chance5 Comments
CWs: mildly spoilerish so click at your own risk Dear Elle Kennedy, Bad Girl Reputation is the second book in your Avalon Bay series and the follow up to last year’s Good Girl Complex. Readers first met Evan Hartley in Good Girl Complex when his twin brother, Cooper, got his ... more >
Book Reviews / C ReviewsAustralia / Australian Outback / found family / m/m romance / novella / Small-Town5 Comments
When Fergus Galloway takes on a research trip to a tiny mining town in the far Western Australian outback, he’s as far from Sydney as he can get. Which is entirely the point. He arrives in Pannalego totally unprepared for the baking heat, unprepared for the people who call it ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews#ownvoices / dreams / Emperor / experimental novel / Fantasy / goddess / LGBTQIA+ / m/m / POC / POC author / quest / resistance/oppression / second-person POV4 Comments
Dear Simon Jimenez, Your debut novel, The Vanished Birds (2020), is one of my favorite science fiction novels of recent years. It earned an A from me when I reviewed it and made my Best of 2020 list. I’ve been waiting with bated breath for the release of The Spear ... more >