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Overboard by Sara Paretsky
Read February 2023 Recommended for fans of PI mysteries ★ ★ ★ ★ f V.I. Warshawski and I have been together for a long time. How long? I’d say that I finally discovered her in the 1990s, when … Continue reading
The Monks of Appalling Dreadfulness. If by ‘appalling,’ you mean ‘hysterical.’
Read February 2023 Recommended for fans footnotes, The Gates, dry humor ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Appalling amounts of fun. I giggled most of the way through it, and despite the brevity, it would have been five stars if … Continue reading
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Read January 2023 Recommended for fans of Pratchett, MMOG ★ ★ ★ 1/2 It all depends on your definition of ‘cosy,’ I suppose. I’ve been wrapping up George Saunders’ A Swim In a Pond In the Rain, in which … Continue reading
One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Read January 2023 Recommended for ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 All you need to understand is that this was published March 2021, which means it was written end of 2020. Yes, that 2020. You know, the one … Continue reading
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
Read December 2022 Recommended for fans of light horror ★ ★ ★ 1/2 I am a horror pansy. Not my genre. But I am a sucker for chicks-in-space, and after I read more than a few reviews … Continue reading
A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow
Read August 2022 Recommended for fans of the Scholomance ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Fairy tales and I go way back. For a little perspective, you have to remember I’m the Disney Classic era, so I’m not talking movie fairy tales … Continue reading
That Ain’t Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire
Read May 2022 Recommended ★ ★ ★ ★ Surprisingly fun and a nice return to the attraction the series originally held for me. Snappy dialogue, a tone that nicely balances fun with consequences and an interesting storyline all make for … Continue reading
Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Magical Creatures by Jackson Pearce and Maggie Stiefvater
Read April 2022 Recommended for magical animal-lovers ★ ★ ★ ★ In kindergarten, I wanted to be a veternarian. So I have some empathy for Pip, the main character in a series by Pearce and Stiefvater, who is fascinated … Continue reading
Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson
Read March 2022 Recommended ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Continuing my streak in above-average teen-adult books, I’m going to have to relax my genre prejudices. Really, I shouldn’t have them; I grew up female, after all, and found a great … Continue reading
Thin Air by Richard Morgan. Not very thin at all.
Read February 2022 Recommended for Morgan fans ★ ★ ★ ★ Brutal and twisty. Three weeks later, I’m left thinking I liked it, but in the way one likes junk food or quick and dirty sex (which no doubt comes … Continue reading
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