I chose the series after reading the first book as part of COYER book club. Berls and I are doing our Series in a Month as a buddy read. I enjoyed this short setup for the series. Kill Joy introduces the group of friends as they play a murder mystery type game. Pip isn’t […]
Our favorite 2000 year old druid returns to fight another day. Since he angered every god in Hammered and is being hunted by many, he decides the only way to live without worry is to fake his death. So with the help of the Navajo trickster Coyote, he, Oberon and Granuaile, his apprentice, manage […]
I didn’t know what to expect here but I love scifi and Murderbot is one of my very favorite series. However, Witch King feels more like epic fantasy. There are lots of characters and types of characters with complex abilities and magic. I think I will definitely want to read again, possibly listening while reading […]
The Fury of Kings is a the first book in a new series The Erland Saga, a new debut fantasy set in a recognizable format of warring families and various PoVs that roll out the world around you. This is a staging book with a few epic battles and a question of what is happening in […]
The Nameless Restaurant is the first book in a in the Hidden Dishes series currently focused around a restaurant in Toronto that is so hidden by magic you basically have to stumble into, unless you are magical and just happen to know where it is. This reads half like a food blog and half like […]
The Fall of the House is the third and final book in the Secrets of the Red Room series. Derek Hawthorne is a spy and works for The House as part of the Red Room. Each department has a different colored “Room”. I can’t remember them all, but there is a black and white room […]
Wayward is the sequel to The Wanderers. They are both long books, covering a pandemic, white nationalism, artificial intelligence and other timely social issues which were not as prevalent at the time the books were written. For me, it was the combination of a good story with many issues to consider from different perspectives. It’s […]
I was looking for snarky paranormal romance/urban fantasy when I came across It’s a Wonderful Midlife Crisis by Robyn Peterman, the first installment of the Good to the Last Death series, in my library’s suggestion list. I enjoyed her previous books, and after meeting the author in person at several conventions, knew her to have […]
While this is a time travel mystery series, this book has no time travel which suits me very well. I’m enjoying the historical mystery and the lovely characters here. Now in The Poisoner’s Ring, we have a series of poisonings and since Isla is a chemist there is concern she will be drawn into the […]
For those who are not familiar with this series, The Innkeeper Chronicles is written by Ilona Andrews, first on their blog with a chapter posted each week. Once the book is complete, they post it as an ebook and an audiobook. I’m not sure I have those details exactly right, but they are close enough. […]