At different points, this reminded me both of Agatha Christie and of the Doctor Who episode “Midnight.” And if that’s not a combination that grabs your attention, I don’t even know what to say to you. The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks follows the passengers on a Trans-Siberian express train that …
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Now THIS is how you make a sequel! In Past Present Future by Rachel Lynn Solomon, Rowan and Neil have gotten together, after four years of rivalry in high school. Now, they’re heading away to college in Boston and New York City respectively. Life in these cities is quite different from in Seattle, though, and …
In Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous by Mae Marvel, Wil Greene has spent the last thirteen years watching from afar as her high school best friend, Katie Price, skyrockets to massive fame as an actor and director in Hollywood. Meanwhile, Wil’s law career never really happened, as she stayed in her hometown to …
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In The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields, Marigold is fed up with high society and trying to find love. So when her grandmother unexpectedly visits and asks her to come back to the island of Innisfree with her, to become a witch, Marigold agrees. There’s a catch, though—no witch in their family can be …
You’ll be pleased to know that there are just about enough dragons in this book for me! In I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle, Gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus Thrax (please just call him Robert) has inherited his late father’s job as dragon exterminator for the kingdom. He doesn’t like the job, as …
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