A Reviews / A- Reviews / B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Reading Lists / Recommended Readsalternate Nantucket / contemporary fantasy / LGBTQIA+ / m/m / Magic / plot twists / political intrigue / rape survivor / Reading lists / The Tarot Sequence / traumatic-past / Urban-Fantasy8 Comments
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 >
Book Reviewsclassic literature / English historical romance / History / non-fiction / Reading lists / Time-Travel8 Comments
My 2022 reading slump continues; I don’t have much for “what I’ve been reading” for the second quarter in a row. I did read and review Steadfast, The No Show, You Were Made to Be Mine, and Sea of Tranquility, the latter two with Janine. Other than that, I read ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews / C- Reviews / DNF ReviewsArtificial Intelligence / clergy / elves / Fantasy / far future / goblins / grief / investigation / kidnapped heroine / LGBTQIA+ / miscarriage / mixed loyalties / murder mystery / pregnancy / princess / Reading lists / spaceship / spousal abuse / steampunk11 Comments
The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison I was a huge fan of The Goblin Emperor but not as keen on The Witness for the Dead, the first book in the spinoff Cemeteries of Amalo series about detective/priest/medium-of-sorts Thara Celehar. Hope springs eternal, though, so I requested book two in ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / C+ ReviewsClaire Kingsley / ex-con / family feuds / grumpy / sunshine / Magical Negro / mechanic / Reading lists / Small-Town / squirrels9 Comments
Back in April I took advantage of my free Kindle Unlimited trial membership to speed through Claire Kingsley’s Bailey Brothers series, which follows the romantic relationships of five brothers in a small (Oregon? Washington? I already forgot) town. The books were recommended here by commenters DiscoDollyDeb and commenter/former reviewer Rose ... more >
Book ReviewsContemporary / historical romance / New Adult / Reading lists / Series / Thriller/Suspense21 Comments
I’ve been doing quarterly “what I’ve been reading” posts pretty faithfully for a while now. Usually I have close to ten books on the list, but for various reasons I haven’t been reading much, and so I only have three to review (I also reviewed two books with Janine – ... more >
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The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins This was the first of my two short Halloween reads. Like most of my Halloween reads, it wasn’t particularly scary. The story opens with the Countess Narona visiting a doctor in London, and recounting a strange story about her meeting her fiance’s jilted lover. ... more >