London: July 1812. How do you set about solving a murder no one can reveal has been committed? This book begins with the delivery of a dead body to Paul Gibson, retired army surgeon/anatomist . He’s especially anxious about this body, as the young man in question supposedly died in his sleep due to heart failure and Paul is eager to dissect the body to learn more about such a condition. However, upon close examination he discovers that the man didn’t die of natural causes, […]
Family Secrets Exposed
I’m thankful that I’ve come to this series late, so that I don’t have to wait in between books! This is book 5 in the series, and like the others, it begins with a murder – this time it’s the Bishop of London found bludgeoned to death in a recently opened crypt. And he’s not the only body there, remains are found of another man dating back to the 1700’s. Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is called upon once again to look into the mystery. […]
In which Rachel discovers some truths about her family she wishes had remained buried
This is book six in a series, it’s very much not the place to start reading. In fact, there’s a whole bunch of stuff revealed in this book that really requires prior knowledge to the books, so go start at the beginning with Dead Witch Walking. Rachel still has absolutely no idea who killed her boyfriend, and because of the memory potion she drank, her memories of the event are still very fuzzy. Someone is summoning Algaliarept, the demon whom she owes favours to out […]
Terrifyingly timely
There’s been a whole bunch of reviews posted for this book already, so I’m not going to spend a lot of time recapping the plot in my own words. Goodreads can help me out here: Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to the food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her […]
What I feel is relief. It wasn’t me.
Welp, I just picked up The Handmaid’s Tale this afternoon, and finished it in one sitting. Not because I couldn’t put it down, but because I absolutely refused to stop, let it percolate, and dare to wonder at what could be coming. Honestly, it’s too believable. I knew that it would be; you can’t avoid talk of the story these days. But it’s strikingly real, and for that reason, downright horrifying. I never caught myself picking apart the believability, or the potential. This is dystopian fiction […]
If you are different from a person everyone agrees is wonderful, it means you are somehow wrong.
This was a tough one, emotionally. One True Thing is the story of a brilliant young woman “with her whole life ahead of her” who is guilted by her controlling and emotionally-arrested father into leaving her life behind to come home and care for her dying mother. And it covers so much ground in a very gentle but sad way: gender roles, parenting, family dynamic, literature and poetry, agency, friendship, romance, and ultimately, euthanasia. At the very beginning of the story, Ellen tells us that […]
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