Back in springtime I started fretting how few good 2022 books I’d read. I keep track of these things because I want to have a half decent best-of-the-year list by the end of the year. By early July, I only had two. Less than five books do not a list ... more >
In our second post on The Golden Enclaves (you can find the spoiler free part one here), book three in Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy, we discuss spoilers from start to finish, so if you’re spoiler-wary, avoid this discussion or come back after you’ve read the book (if you’re not, please ... more >
Jennie and I reviewed the first two books in Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series, A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate, together (the first with Sirius) and we both really, really liked them. After a breathless wait for The Golden Enclaves (the previous book had one hell of a cliffhanger) the ... more >
Dear Lana Harper, I was a huge fan of your first novel in the Witches of Thistle Grove Series, Payback’s a Witch, you can read my enthusiastic review here. I eagerly awaited this second book in the series set in the fictional town of Thistle Grove. The town of Thistle ... more >
Black Water Sister by Zen Cho I enjoyed Zen Cho’s two books in her Sorcerer Royal series, with their lovable characters, whimsy, humor, and Heyer homages, so when I saw she had a fantasy novel set in modern-day Malaysia coming out, one that was initially billed as a third installment, ... more >