Nightshade by Michael Connelly
Well shit, we got a new player on the field. I think he’s going to work out just fine. I thought this was a nice new character long time Connelly fans can sink their teeth into. There’s a hint of Bosch (the main character Stillwell is kicked out of homicide and banished to an island) but is happy with his lot in life living on the island and having a relationship with a local who just gets him and he gets her. That’s so unlike […]
Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Nona has the best life ever. Sure, she lives on a war-torn hellscape of a planet with a malevolent blue sphere hovering in the sky. And okay, she can’t remember anything further back than 6 months ago. And also, it sure seems like she’s some kind of inhuman, immortal entity somehow inhabiting the body of Harrowhark Nonagesimus. But Nona has a family that loves her. She has a group of friends to explore abandoned buildings with. Sometimes, she even gets to pet a 6-legged dog […]
Renegade Girls by Nora Neus and Julie Robine
When I started the Nora Neus and Julie Robine graphic novel, Renegade Girls, I was not enjoying it. Things felt too simple, romanticized, not original and terribly slow paced. I already knew the ending. Or so I thought. Granted, there was the obvious ending (if you are paying attention) but things did not take the obvious path to get there. We have a realistic look at the troubles of the factor workers and we see the ugly but it is not gratuitous. In fact, if […]
Haru Book 3: Fall by Joe Latham
In volume three of this series, Haru Book 3: Fall, our hero Haru must follow one of the last troupes of mythology and the journey of the hero. Haru is a non-binary blue-colored bird (with a younger sibling, a pig best friend, and a ghost robin mother) that has in volumes one (Spring) and two (Summer), traveled and fought the evil of the land, but in three we must take the trip to the Afterlife to be reborn. Joe Latham’s characters continue the journey started […]
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
I feel like I am the odd one out because I didn’t like this one as much as the previous one. Not sure if I had certain expectations for this novel and the fact that Bennett took a different approach colored my reaction or if it was something else entirely. It’s also why it’s taken me 2 months to even want to try to tackle this review. I wonder how much this is the novel he had originally intended to write when he started his […]
The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
I was about halfway through The Keeper of Lost Causes and wondering why I was enjoying it. Everything about it is good, not great, from the misanthropic detective, to the unlikely sidekick, to the mystery itself. It kept landing with me and it took me a while to figure out why… It’s a recognizable story. I never went through anything as horrible as the fictional Carl Mørck did but I do know what it’s like to be screwed over by your superiors, blamed for things that aren’t […]
