Fern, who we first met in Bookshops & Bonedust, has uprooted her life to open a new bookshop next to the Legends and Lattes coffee shop run by her friend Viv. She’s long been unhappy at home, and thought for sure this would solve those feelings. But it doesn’t. While fortifying herself with some liquid […]
Brigands & Breadknives – Travis Baldree Read More »
This is a lovely little fairy tale. Celia’s father helped their country win the war against the neighboring Summerlings (they’re Fae), and gained great power doing so. Celia is the youngest, and the only girl. And when her beloved oldest brother renounces their father’s name, she curses him, not realizing that she has inherited the
The Summer War – Naomi Novik Read More »
It’s really hard to describe this book. We open in NYC before WWII, in a world of mobsters. Pea has magical hands and works as an enforcer – she’s always believes she was given them to kill those that deserve it, but as the story goes on, she learns that that’s not always been the
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This is a charming little book. Imelda’s one of the twelve dancing princesses, and falls in love with Ambrose at her sister’s wedding. Unfortunately, she falls sick at their wedding, and a fairy godmother offers Ambrose the chance to save her, but they’ll have to lose their love for each other. So we end up
Once More Upon a Time – Roshani Chokshi Read More »
Halla is a respectable widow who’s just inherited a fortune, and has been locked in her bedroom by the rest of her family by marriage, who want her to marry her husband’s cousin to keep the money in the family. That’s when she discovers that the dingy sword that’s been hanging there for as long
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This book continues the story of the younger generation of the family in the center of this series. One thing I’ve always appreciated about this author is her willingness to go dark – she absolutely doesn’t shy away from themes that other authors wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole. But man, this book was
The Queen’s Weapons – Anne Bishop Read More »
This is an interesting alternate take on the Persian empire, bringing in Alexander the Great of Macedon. Nazafareen’s sister was taken by a druj (demon), and she joins the Water Dogs to try to avenge her death. The Water Dogs bind to daevas, who they are told are also druj, but there’s clearly more going
The Midnight Sea – Kat Ross Read More »
This is a fun book – told jumping over about a twenty year period in the life of Maggie Bird, now a chicken farmer in a small town in Maine, but formerly a spy. She ended up in Purity when several of her other former spy friends settled there after their retirement, and this tale
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Anna and Charles are called in to investigate the disappearance of a community squatting on land that it turns out the pack owns in the California mountains. Due to prior events, the FBI has decided that Anna must lead the werewolves, and Bran is happy to not disabuse them of that notion, so he lets
Wild Sign – Patricia Briggs Read More »
This book has three different novellas, two from Lackey’s early series, and a standalone third story. I loved the intros to each, because she wrote them for any younger person reading those earlier stories today, so set the scene of how technology has changed since those two older series. I have not read any of
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