The entire Red Winter trilogy all in one great audiobook. This trilogy is steeped in Japanese culture and lore. It follows a young girl, Emi who has always known she would be a vessel for a goddess Amaterasu on earth one day and the sneaky fox she saved who has tricks up his sleeve and […]
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 […]
‘All skate, change directions.’ ‘Just Say No.’ ‘Gag me with a spoon.’ If you know what these sayings mean, or better yet, if you’ve actually heard them used not-ironically, I invite you to flash back to the eighties by reading My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. This is a nostalgia-filled horror novel, which sounds […]
Night Shift Dragons is the final book of the DFZ series. Opal has some daddy issues. Sure, she has the normal ones, rebellion against a controlling parent and a desperate need to get out from under their thumb. Then she has the not so normal ones like; being the only human daughter to a dragon […]
I have been loving this world in the Consortium Rebellion trilogy. One of three sisters is featured in each of the three books and now we meet Catarina. She is the youngest sister and I didn’t feel I knew her very well from previous stories. While her sisters were out fighting and learning off planet, […]
This is totally a women’s story. The Herd chronicles the difficulties women have in a world with men. Bright women went to Harvard, and started new companies. The Herd is an elite, co-working space for women only and to support each other. When Eleanor disappears, all her choices, past and present, start coming into focus. […]
I like science fiction and Salvaged seemed like it might have the first phase of an apocalyptic change. What I didn’t consider in advance was the world-building and character aspects. The world is one with space travel, and other advanced technologies such as bioengineering. It is also a world with politics and greed with some […]
I LOVED Polaris Rising! So I was ready for the next book in the Consortium Rebellion trilogy, Aurora Blazing. Ada’s sister, Bianca is the main character and we get her point of view. We were introduced to her already in the previous book as she is very close to Ada. While Ada is a skilled […]
Part-Time Gods is the follow up book to Minimum Wage Magic, which was storage wars in a magic city where someone seemed bent on killing the main character. This DFZ series is set in the same world as the Heartstrikers series, after the events of the last book. You don’t have to have read the […]
What can I say? I LOVED Polaris Rising! I enjoyed the characters, the world, the romance(s) and the narration. It was all outstanding. I wanted to listen all the time. I stopped with about an hour left at bedtime which was a mistake because my mind raced with the story anyway. This trope reminds me […]