Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver
CBR Bingo: ‘Purple’ I loved Brynne Weaver’s Ruinous Love trilogy (consisting of Butcher & Blackbird, Leather & Lark, and Scythe & Sparrow) about serial killers falling in love, so I had been eagerly awaiting her latest novel, Tourist Season, ever since it was announced. Released last … [Read more]
A Fellowship of Librarians & Dragons by J. Penner
Bingo 21: Review I may have already had A Fellowship of Librarians and Dragons on my TBR before looking up reviews, but turns out I had a pretty similar reaction to Bjornsnipe: https://everyday-offershub.com/2025/10/a-fellowship-of-librarians-dragons-adenashire-book-two-bjornsnipe/ This series, … [Read more]
It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest
Having an overly credible horror protagonist doesn't always work. Most of ghostly or demonic horror comes down to gaslighting, more than anything else. I noticed this for the first time when doing the Dracula audiobook with my wife, and her pointing out that Dracula and Johnathan Harker are … [Read more]
Dinner with King Tut by Sam Kean
CBR 17 BINGO: TBR, because whenever Sam Kean comes out with a new book, I add it to my TBR BINGO: Play, Purple, TBR, Diaspora, Culture In the introduction to Dinner with King Tut, Kean confesses that he always found archaeology to be a bit dry. It should be thrilling, discovering the secrets … [Read more]
The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison
A few weeks back, I wrote a review for Katherine Addison’s The Angel of the Crows. Reading this book was actually a bit of tangent for me; I had been meaning to hunt down the third book in her Cemeteries of Amalo series, The Tomb of Dragons. And then I got distracted by the book whose existence … [Read more]
Can't Escape Love by Alyssa Cole
3.5 stars CBR17 Pie Challenge: Inclusion CBR17 Bingo: Borrow (read through Libby, since I don't actually own the book) Regina "Reggie" Hobbs is working hard to make her nerdy website, Girls with Glasses, a success, and prove to her over-protective parents that she's perfectly capable of … [Read more]
