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This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
Unfinished October 2025 Recommended for fans of portal fantasies not rated I grew up on portal fantasies. It was a tremendously popular trope for 1970s and 1980s fantasies, from the junior reader The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Phantom Tollbooth, … Continue reading
Esperance by Adam Oyebanji
Unfinished, June 2025 Recommended for fans Octavia Butler ★ ★ 1/2 The combination of sci-fi and police procedural was tantalizing, particularly when it notes it will include non-white viewpoints, so when I read Richard’s enthusiastic review Richard’s enthusiastic review , I immediately … Continue reading
To Clutch a Razor by Veronica Roth
Read June 2025 Recommended for fans of Roth ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Having enjoyed When Among Crows, I jumped at the chance to read an advance reader copy of the next installment, To Clutch a Razor. Unfortunately, the darker emotions … Continue reading
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Read July 2024 Recommended for fans of Kingfisher, retellings ★ ★ ★ ★ Kingfisher’s latest is well written and up to her usual high standards, but in all probability, I will never read it again. It brought back unpleasant echoes … Continue reading
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
Read June 2024 Recommended for ? ★ 1/2 This was a chore, which is not a word one would expect with either genre, the apocalypse or murder mysteries. But there you have it. I read in fits until 30%, when … Continue reading
Necrobane by Daniel M. Ford
Read May 2024 Recommended for series fans ★ ★ 1/2 I was looking forward to Necrobane, the follow-up book to The Warden, not the least of which is that The Warden ended on a bit of a cliff-hanger. Surprisingly, what … Continue reading
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark
Read April 2024 Recommended for fans of Gideon ★ ★ ★ ★ When I heard Djèlí Clark was coming out with a new stand-alone book (novella?) I was immediately on board. Although Dead Cat Tail wasn’t quite what I hoped … Continue reading
Dark Dive by Andrew Mayne
Read February 2024 Recommended for mystery fans, divers ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 I have a theory (of course I do). By book five in a mystery series, we know it is going to be, … Continue reading
Everyone on This Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
Read November 2023 Recommended for mystery writers ★ ★ ★ 1/2 “If you think you don’t already know the rules to writing a murder mystery, trust me, you do. It’s all intuitive. Let me give you an … Continue reading
The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang
Read October 2023 Recommended for fans Abercrombie ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Reads like a cross between Joe Abercrombie’s Best Served Cold and Nghi Vo’s Singing Hills books. The fantasy I’ve enjoyed most lately are tales coming from … Continue reading
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