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In Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree, Viv is an orc who is starting out her career as a mercenary, but it isn’t going as planned—on one of her first missions, she finds herself stabbed in the leg. In order to not be a liability to her crew, she has to convalesce in the small beach…
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What a quirky book! In Charming by Jade Linwood, Prince Charming is dazzling, charismatic, and talented at slaying dragons. He’s also, however, a criminal, making a habit of traveling the world and snatching fortunes out from under people’s noses. So when a chance meeting occurs between three of his victims—Doctor Emilia Rapunzel, Marie Blanche de Neige, and…
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And that’s saying a lot considering how much I love the Magnus Chase trilogy. But… I might stand by my initial statement here. We’ll see once I stop reeling from this book in a few days. So in The Sun and the Star by co-authors Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro, we again find ourselves with Nico di…
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I love when a book ends up being even better than you expected! In The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer, Lucy Hart’s life hasn’t been the easiest. She spent her childhood being neglected by her parents, who were busy taking care of her immuno-compromised sister. Lucy’s only comfort was the Clock Island book series, which hasn’t had…
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I received a digital advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Our Hideous Progeny by C. E. McGill. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Our Hideous Progeny, Mary Saville and her husband Henry are scientists enamored with paleontology. They’re down on their luck,…
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The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi joins the titular character after she’s been retired from piracy for ten years to raise her daughter. But one day a woman arrives with a request Amina can’t say no to: if she recovers this woman’s granddaughter—the child of one of Amina’s former crew members—she will give Amina riches she’s never…
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I jotted down this note while reading: “No one overthinks as much as Tobias Hawthorne.” And I stand by it. I would definitely lose a chess game to that man, because I can’t think thirty-seven steps ahead or whatever. What an exhausting way to live that would be. In The Final Gambit, the conclusion to the…
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I’ve known about this book since it came out, but (as seems to be my pattern now) I waited until now, right before the last book in the trilogy is to be published, to read it. In The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Avery is barely scraping by as she tries to make it through high school and…
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In Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly, Dahlia is nervous but excited to begin competing on the popular reality cooking show, Chef’s Special. She has recently gotten divorced and moved to a small apartment, and her debt from university is looming over her, so the prize money would mean a fresh start. But when…
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(I would have finished this book a lot sooner if it weren’t for my newfound and crippling obsession with Our Flag Means Death. I have no regrets, though. Everyone go watch that show and lose your minds with me. It’s so incredibly good!) Anyway, I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher.…