This is a short story, and a nice twist on high school tropes. It’s told from the point of view of a young cop who’s gone undercover at the elite high school where a number of the popular girls have been killed. He’s gone in with the boys, and this story definitely becomes all about […]
The Princess Game – Soman Chainani Read More »
I caught Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries when it was still on Netflix, and enjoyed the hell out of it. I’ve been sitting on this book for a while. Definitely wish I’d read it earlier. I don’t want to say that the series was sanitized for television, exactly, because it did try to deal with mature
Cocaine Blues – Kerry Greenwood Read More »
Not a bad free book. This is the set up to a series set in more modern days, but leaning on Greek mythology for the characters. The author does take certain liberties with the parentage of her characters, but she talks about why at the end of this book, and I like where she’s going
Persephone – Eva Pohler Read More »
This book finally goes into the details of the origins of Valdemar. We’ve known it was founded by a nobleman from the far away Empire, and he summons the Companions after a prayer to all the gods he’s ever heard of – now we get the full story. Kordas, Duke of Valdemar, has worked very
Beyond – Mercedes Lackey Read More »
This is a Wayward Children book, but stands apart from them – none of the action takes place at Eleanor West’s school. Regan loves horses. She’s got a great relationship with her parents, but a rather shocking secret challenges her relationships with the girls she thought were her friends. (The set up for that is
Across the Green Grass Fields – Seanan McGuire Read More »
This is a really interesting book, written for lay people, that does a great overview of Earth’s atmosphere. I really enjoyed this – I had at least heard of most of the things that were covered, but this book went into detail about a number of the phenomena, and covered the scientists that had discovered
An Ocean of Air – Gabrielle Walker Read More »
I had a used copy of this book my mother had found at Goodwill, back when I was in high school, and was reading everything King Arthur I could get my hands on. (This author did an Arthur series.) I remember reading it several times, and really enjoying it, so I snapped up a cheap
Touch Not the Cat – Mary Stewart Read More »
This latest installment of the Wayward Children novellas take a slightly darker (which is saying something) turn. Cora was taken in by the Drowned Gods of the Moors when she and her friends were last there, and is afraid that it’ll mean she can never go back to her own world of the Trenches. So
Where the Drowned Girls Go – Seanan McGuire Read More »
Ropa lives in Edinburgh, and makes a living a messenger for the dead – bringing messages back to their loved ones. While it’s clearly a fantasy, it starts out in what could be our world, but very quickly, clues start to come in that Ropa’s world is not at all like ours. The people of
The Library of the Dead – T. L. Huchu Read More »
I started this book back on September 15th. It’s in translation from Polish, and I’d be curious to see if it’s as dense in that language as in English. I had to take long pauses between readings. Honestly, I usually dump a book by now with pauses this long in between, but I really did
The Widow Queen – Elzbieta Cherezinska Read More »
