Welcome to an Island isolated from almost everyone. A place where, in the dead of winter, various plants thrive and survive in a myriad of various greenhouses enchanted by a now dead Sorcerer. This is a wonderous world, some greenhouses have plants that sing, others vines that act like snakes; some have an ecosystem set […]
I believe this is the last book in the Hart and Mercy series and it sticks the landing solidly. The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam begins about ten years after the events of the prior books. Duckers finally found a partner who will stick with him in Rosie, well at least most of the time when […]
I remember when I was in my twenties, I thought fifty was old and I imagined grey hair and Wilford Brimley as the posterchild of what that looked like. Now that I’m much closer to fifty all of those notions seem silly. I’m close to being in the best shape of my life, in a […]
I saw the cover on The Spellshop awhile ago and was intrigued but I’ve had very hit and miss experiences with Cozy Fantasy. I was pleasantly surprised that this first book in the Spellshop series had a cute premise, a cool world and a group of characters that were cute and quirky. Keila has lived […]
Imagine a deep voice proclaiming “In a world where forty-eight aliens fell to earth Superman style, emerging from pods as children, a balance of heroes and villains has been organized. Team hero has hired a little known PR team to rebrand one of the forty-eight from terrorizing Pyro into a new Hero, The Wyvern. But […]
Eighties nostalgia hit me hard in this one. I fondly remember the days of great big hair, aqua net, answering machines and going out to the movies seeing Halloween on the big screen. I had such a good time with going back in time in this book. Since Airhead is the prequel book to The […]
Maggie Stiefvater has been one of my go to authors for great stories since I first listened to The Scorpio Races over a decade ago. She was one of the few YA writers I stuck with after moving on from most YA. The Listeners is her first shot at an adult novel and while much […]
Worldbuilding is one of the things Kate Elliott does well, having read a few of her books for comparison. The Witch Roads leans into this love of worldbuilding heavily as she takes the reader on a journey through a smugglers route, treacherous not only due to the difficulty of the route and the company traveling […]
A story set in a world where some live in a land floating through the sky, others live on the mortal plane and then some live in darkness, in the underworld. All these worlds collide in The Floating World when, Ren, girl in hiding from those who would kill her in the Float City, uses […]
Maybe our favorite Grim Reaper with a hangover, Shamus, can finally find his place in the world and learn how to deal with his death magic. It helps that he may have finally figured out his relationship with his soul companion and now bff Terric in Dirty Work the final book of the Broken Magic […]