Content Notes: emotional and physical abuse of a child by a parent Dear Charlotte Stein, I loved How to Help a Hungry Werewolf last year and guessed that bookshop owner, Nancy, would be the next heroine of the series. It was clear in the first book that Nancy had magical ... more >
Dear Olivia Dade, Edie Brandstrup lives in Zone A, inside the Containment Zone, somewhere close to Washington DC. Two decades earlier, the “Breach” occurred and the zombies escaped from the government facility which had been experimenting to create a super soldier capable of killing the recently outed werewolves. One dose ... more >
Dear Ann Aguirre, First off, isn’t that cover great? It calls to mind 1950s sci-fi movies and I love that the alien is both not a little green man with a giant head and also feels quite close to the book’s description of Seeker. I mean, if you go for ... more >
Content notes: bullying and fatphobia, brief references to parental neglect Dear Charlotte Stein, Cassandra Camberwell has returned to Hollow Brook to sort out her grandmother’s house after her gran’s recent passing. She hasn’t been back for years, having left the small town she grew up in shortly after finishing ... more >
We usually start the reviews in this series by noting how many books are in the series and how many Janine and I have reviewed together. I insist on doing this for some reason, even though I find the math confusing and challenging at this point. But anyway, by my ... more >
2022 was a challenging year for me when it came to reading. The DNFs were frequent but at least I got through my reading list faster because of them, and yay, ended up with a full ten books to include here. In order of how much I liked them, here ... more >