Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
I have to say, I really do like T. Kingfisher’s newer writing. I think she still has moments of humor in her books, but this and the last one, “A Sorceress Comes to Call” feels more grown-up in some way I can’t name. I thought that parts of this book seemed to be taking on some of the best parts of the “Universe of the White Rat” but set in a different world/place. There are saints here with all of the gods run over eons […]
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
“Death of the Author” follows struggling author and lecturer, Zelu. She feels lost in her very big and successful family. When she finds out that she is now fired from her job at a college and her latest book has failed to find a publisher, Zelu wonders how she can go on. We follow her over the course of years as she pulls a book out of of her “Rusted Robots” and becomes a critical darling and then “cancelled” by her fans. Through it all […]
Witch You Would by Lia Amador
I am on a roll with some truly excellent reads and listens. Lia Amador’s Witch You Would is a fun contemporary fantasy romance. Lia Amador has created a world in which magic is something anyone can do, like cooking or math. Some people are better at it than others and so of course there are reality shows in which people compete for best spell caster. The venerable reality show, Cast Judgement, is filming its next season in Miami and Penelope will be a contestant. The prize […]
The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni
The Gilded Cage by Lynette Noni
The Blood Traitor by Lynette Noni
Bingo Square: Red (mostly The Gilded Cage but all have shades or hints of reds) I kept seeing this on book reels that randomly show up on my FB and IG accounts – it was one of those books that gets talked about but also isn’t so wildly popular that it’s off-putting. Just enough mentions here and there that it eventually stuck in my head. Overall, I think it’s a decent YA trilogy but like so many others, the beginning seems to be setting up […]
Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb
cbr17bingo: favorite (completes my first BINGO) I don’t think Robin Hobb can fully turn me into a wholehearted lover of multiple POV storytelling, but if anyone can, it will be her. I got frustrated each time the POV shifted because I wasn’t ready to be done with the one I was currently reading, and each time I was very quickly sucked into the new one. While I still had favorite and less preferred character POVs, each was still compelling in their own way. Robin Hobb writes […]
The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen
The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam is the third and final book in the series that began with The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy. It was one of my most looked forward to books of the year, and while it was my least favorite of the three, it still has that Megan Bannen way of approaching a story that I love. In her Fun Author Questions with Powell’s Books Bannen talks about loving to mash genres together so that we can all have fun in […]
