I got out of the house on Wednesday night! It’s funny being four years out from the lockdown – it both feels four years ago, and yesterday. I do things every once in a while that really strike me, because I couldn’t do them not so long ago. Which is funny in this case, because […]

We finally get a story centered on Kimberley Adams, the FBI agent who’s been over to London a couple times to help out Peter. Along the way, she’s become the go to person at the FBI for ‘unusual occurrences’, aka magic. That’s how she finds herself up in Wisconsin in the winter, with a snow

This book picks up where The Ninth House left off – Alex and Dawes are trying to figure out how to get into Hell to rescue Darlington. Obviously, you really need to read the first book in the series to care why anything is happening in this book. The last book gave a pretty good

Biddy has grown up on a hidden island off the coast of Ireland, raised by the magician Rowan and his familiar, Hutchincroft, who spends most of his time as a rabbit. It’s a rather idyllic existence, but as she gets older, she starts to realize that it’s rather odd that Rowan doesn’t allow her to

This is a such a sweet little story. Otta’s six, and lives on her father’s ship. One morning, the ship’s boy finds a rat, and Otta sees a pet. The First Mate doesn’t approve, and sends the rat overboard. What they don’t know is that the rat is hosting a baby elemental – the very

I saw this used, and snagged it because I like the author. It’s a fun enough book – presented as a dictionary of all the tropes you’d run into in a fantasy story. It was published in 1996, so it’s fun to think about how much things actually have changed in fantasy-book land since that

I have such a love hate relationship with the world of this series. I’m honestly not sure why I keep reading them. I feel like I need to do some sort of psychological deep dive into this. I like this kind of story, and the world building is pretty unique, but I think there’s something