Once upon a time, I was girl who had never heard of T. Kingfisher and I think my reading life was 10-15% less happy because of that. But then in 2021 something magical happened when I read the first book in the Swordheart series and fell…in…love. It was everything Romantasy should be but rarely is. […]
Annie Gore is tough because she has had to be. She was in the air force special investigations unit, and now works as a PI. In the second of the Annie Gore series, Brimstone Hollow, she is hired to find out what really happened to a woman’s father. The woman, Katie, was only notified on […]
I enjoy science fiction for both the technology aspects and the ideological perspectives. Automatic Noodle contained those elements. The basic setup is sentient bots working in food service who have shut down during their owners leaving and weather events. They are in California which allows free bots, unlike America which wants to keep them enslaved. […]
I didn’t know much about Witch Season before reading it. So the setup is our main character is Katherine. She was an unsettled witch. That is when a witch from non-magical parents gets power, usually in their teens and blows up with the magic. It’s called a snap and often destroys property and even kills […]
At first I thought perhaps I was not smart enough to understand this story. I have wanted to read this author for awhile. After I got into the characters and plot though, I was fine. It is detailed with quite a few characters and groups so I need to focus more and multitask less. In […]
Allison Brennan seems to be writing about one standalone thriller each year, in addition to new installments in two of her current series. Whisper Creek is a standalone. I really liked the characters right away. They are good, hard-working people dealing with life every day as happens on a farm. But the bad guys were […]
I have not read Gillian French previously. Perhaps because more of her work is in the Young Adult genre and this is an Adult offering. The main character here is Shaw Connelly who is a fingerprint and evidence technician for the police. She is very experienced and is training a new officer. Shaw’s older sister […]
I love these standalone sorts of life stories Nora Roberts is writing. They feature strong women who face hardships or decisions and build cozy lives for themselves with their own tastes and needs.  Once they have their own happiness, friends and place, they end up falling in love. Arden is a writer. In the beginning, […]
I have not always been a fan of time travel but this author has two series where it is an element and I love them. A Rip Through Time series is where a modern day police detective ends up 150 years earlier. So the story is primarily set historically. I would read this story in order […]
The Shippers has a cruise ship setting. JoJo is the maid of honor for her sister’s wedding. I’m not going to be spoilery here but even if you look at the blurb, everything is about JoJo and her childhood best friend, Cooper. Cooper who she hasn’t seen for 4 years because he ghosted her and […]