Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
August 23, 2022 review: I only did this re-read since it fit a bingo book category. I really didn’t like it the first time I read it, and I liked it even less on my second read through as well. I think it just was all over the place and the “romance” was not even central to the story. I just found the main hero to be another blander version of the character of Luke Brandon from the “Shopaholic” series. Original review: Updated: December 2019: […]
The Day is Dark by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
I thought “The Day is Dark” was very well done. I honestly didn’t know who did what to whom and I loved the different things that were going on and finding out what happened to each character. And I did love that science in the end is explaining what is happening to some of the people in the village, but the villagers took it as a different thing which played into their own mythos. Thora is feeling bored and gets the opportunity to work with […]
Ashes to Dust by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
I read Yrsa Sigurdardottir’s “I Remember You” which freaked me out. I went and started to read her mystery series since I heard good things about it. I have read books #1-2 and finished up books #3 and #4 this past weekend. I have to say that the entire mystery (a head/skeleton, and remains of 3 men buried in a village that was abandoned due to a volcano) was well done. I loved how Thora dug in on this and the actual reveal to the […]
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
cbr square – Scandal In 1785, Jonah Hancock, an unremarkable middle aged widower, receives strange news from his partner and captain of his trading vessel. Instead of returning to London with a full ship of spices from the Far East, his partner has traded the whole shipment, ship and all, for a mermaid. At least that is what he claims it to be. It is nothing like those in the fables, however, being a fierce deformed little monster, and quite deceased. But it ends up […]
One Last Stop by Casey McQuinston
Cannonball Read Bingo: Bodies Author Casey McQuiston is back after the success of her hit “Red White and Royal Blue” with another LBGTQ romance. Like “Red, White, and Royal Blue,” this story has a fresh take on a meet-cute trope. August, new to New York, is on her way to her diner job when she meets the too-cool Jane on the subway; it’s crush at first sight. She is smitten with Jane’s leather jacket, her smirk, and her old school rocker. But for Jane that’s […]
Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
CBR 14 Bingo: Font I do like that dripping red font, like it’s been chalked on. Also Lydia is a font of misery. Lydia is a vampire – has been all her life, since her mother turned her as an infant. Now she’s living on her own for the first time, and having trouble tracking down blood. Though I did not know there was a term for them, I have long been aware of the Sad, Strange, Miserable Women that populate the modern literary landscape. […]
