After already having read this author before, I was excited when I came across this latest historical mystery set in Victorian Era London with a lower class Irish police detective up against his shadowed past and investigating a horrific disaster on the Thames. Blending real history and clever fiction and mystery, Karen Odden has released […]
I read the trilogy which started the Kingmaker Chronicles series. Cat and Griffin were the main characters there. Now we are getting stories from the rest of Team Alpha. I enjoyed the mythology, gods and creatures. I wanted to see what happened with the characters. In the novella, Of Fate & Fire, we learn about […]
Troubleshooting houseplants issues while at the same time making a new plant owner feel they might actually keep their new green, leafy friend alive, What is My Plant Telling Me? was whimsical and practical all rolled into one. I’ve been keeping houseplants of my own since I was a kid, but mostly going on instinct […]
I love science fiction and every time I read it I wonder why I don’t read more of it. I’ve enjoyed this author before so I was happy to read The Spare Man. Not only is it science fiction, set in space, but it is also a murder mystery. The main characters are well suited […]
Set in the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder, this dual timeline story draws in a few minor characters from the Little House world and tells a bittersweet tale that touches four generations of women. I loved the Little House books as a child and have recently picked them up again as an adult so I […]
I was attracted to this book instantly and kept trying to figure out how I could fit it into my schedule. As always, things change and I was happily able to read it. My impression was it was a mystery set in space, which isn’t wrong. But there’s so much more. Station Eternity is told […]
I love this Wrexford & Sloane series so much. The main characters are building a found family with courage, compassion, and cleverness. I am tickled by how clever it is. They support and encourage each other’s strengths and protect each other’s weaknesses. There is plenty of great science, mathematics and art to fill their imaginations. […]
The third book in the Stitch In Time series is A Turn of the Tide where we do not go forward in time to the 21st century but back in time to 50 years before the settings of the other books. In this time, Miranda will find a man, she has seen him before as […]
I enjoyed this sort of retelling of the story of Baba Yaga. The Witch and the Tsar has the Russian mythology feel like books by Naomi Novik (Spinning Silver), and Katherine Arden (The Winternight Trilogy) and oddly, some of the folklore is even in the Robin LeFever’s Fair Assassins series. Of course, this book has […]
An archeologist intern discovers a manuscript at the Cornwall coastal dig site and unleashes magical signs, an old curse, and this facts-driven woman faces the inexplicable of living out a fairytale-like adventure and romance. I didn’t catch it when I read the blurb and decided I wanted to read Druid’s Moon, but this is a […]