The Dangerous Damsels series began this world with its witty, hilarious antics. The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love continues the tradition in a new series in the same world, Love’s Academic. It isn’t necessary to have read the previous books as they are not mentioned at all. Those books are so fun I wouldn’t miss […]
My library reading queue is currently filled with holiday related stories. I’d like to think it was the universe knowing I needed a little Christmas in July, but it is probably just search algorithms trying to up the circulation of seasonal titles. Regardless of how it got there, I found myself reading One Last Gift […]
Mulan is one of my favorite Disney movies so I looked forward to this retelling. Be forewarned The Night Ends with Fire is not the feel good version. The basics of the plot are similar. The details are much grittier and more misogynistic. This time period allows women nothing. Meilin is to be married off […]
Wow. I love this Lady Sherlock series so much. I started by wanting to write Amazing! Brilliant! in the largest font I can use here. Then I thought about creating a huge graphic. But that just tells you how much I enjoyed it and how impressed I am with this author but not why. I […]
Not in Love didn’t feel like other Ali Hazelwood books I have read. At first, it felt like a porn over plot type I used to read. Rue and Eli start as a chance hookup and quickly find out they are on opposite sides of a corporate takeover. I was more interested in the corporate […]
I loved the continuation with the scientific aspects of learning about the Neighbors and August learning about the plants and animals on Earth. We are seeing things from Renee’s point of view, which is naturally more focused on the scientific wonder of this opportunity. We start to learn more about the political and business thoughts. […]
I really enjoyed listening to this police procedural but much more. Anna is a police detective of fairly high rank. When murders which resemble her father’s crimes of 20 years ago, she starts remembering that time. We follow her point of view with the present of wanting to figure out the crime, and the past […]
When I pick up a stand-alone thriller/suspense novel, to some extent, I understand how the plot will unfold. I realize the ‘thrill’ part of thriller is in not knowing what is going to happen, however, if you read enough of them, they tend to unfold in a particular way. Regardless, I still enjoy the character […]
Emily Henry’s stories related by Julia Whelan really hit the feelings for me. Funny Story started as not at all funny but heartbreaking. The outcome was ironic, not humorous funny. With only a week to find somewhere to live, Daphne ends up with the ex-fiancé (Miles) of her ex-fiancé’s (Peter) new fiancé (Petra). Uh, yeah. […]
Now the Library trilogy continues. In the first book, Livira and Evar meet and get to know each other. They find that although their species are at war, they can love each other. They are separated at the end, Livira amd Malar end up as assistants and goes back in time to help Evar and […]