I really enjoy this author and the different series and now standalone books she writes. Nalini Singh brings a lot of diversity and highlights settings in a part of the world I don’t know. There are slight cultural aspects which are not in my region. I would call this a psychological thriller having read it […]
Bookshops and Bonedust is a prequel to Legends and Lattes and it is really meant to be read after Legends and Lattes when we already know Liv the main character. It has a few of the same problems most prequels do, you know the character is going to survive and move onto something else so […]
Court of Tricksters is the first book in the Fae Tricksters series, featuring the courtship of Night, a duke from the Lunar court and Rain, a witch living in the woods almost like a hermit. He could offer her wealth and power but she gave up things that trivial so long ago. If she is […]
A Home Guard obituary story, a gunshot, and off goes intrepid Edie York to crack her first case and convince her boss at the newspaper that she’s got the right stuff for investigative journalism. Set against the background of 1940 Manchester during WWII, Murder at the Blitz appealed to my new growing interest in historical […]
Better Watch Out is a novella set in the world of Transplanted Tales and could be considered the 6th book of the series. Set as Christmas time, this is a fun look at Seth and Lavender’s life after settling down and having a little one of their own. Christmas is almost here and some of the […]
The Unorthodox Chronicles series is written by Jim Butcher’s son, James. As with most urban fantasy, each book further develops the world and characters so I would read them in order. Often when starting a series, I am just trying to understand how everything works. Now I wanted to see what the story would be […]
Spirit Gate is the first book in the Crossroads trilogy, an old school epic fantasy. The world has a very Middle Eastern type setting with sands, people with brown skin who eat yogurt etc. There are many different religions with gods, some seem the same some are different. There used to be guardians that distributed […]
Heart of the Night is the first book in the Nightfire Quartet, featuring Indian Mythology as the base with a few tropes like found family, a love triangle and the chosen one. There are a lot of things to enjoy in the story overall and I had a good time. I think I would have […]
A daring duke who spied for his country during the Napoleonic War finds himself in need of help from the Romani woman he recently rescued to complete his latest mission. I was happy to pick up new to me author, Samantha Holt’s book featuring a class and race difference romance paired with a large dose […]
Death is the final book of The Four Horsemen series, it is the wrap up to a series that spans about 20 years since Pestilence first arrived. The premise of the series is that the apocalypse is neigh and each one of our horsemen come to earth to bring about the end of days and […]