Jukebox by Nidhi Chanani
Shaheen is a tween whose father is super into old music, and boy does he love to talk about it. He never talks about anything else. Shaheen explodes at him one day in an innocent fight, but then her father goes missing. The last place he was seen was at his favorite old record store. Shaheen and her cousin Tannez go investigate, and discover a unique jukebox in the attic of the abandoned store. They put a record on to play, a Bessie Smith album. […]
Cocktails & Chloroform (A Rip Through Time 2.5) by Kelley Armstrong
This novella takes place between The Poisoner’s Ring and Disturbing The Dead and provides some adventure, as well as some backstory on one of the secondary characters of the series, Mallory’s fellow maid, Alice. Alice is the preteen pickpocket of the quote used in the title of this review, although she’s given up the pickpocket life, as she’s been taken under the wing of Isla. In the before times of this series, when Mallory was living in 2019 and Catriona was living in 1869 and […]
The Posioners Ring by Kelley Armstrong
This is the second book in the A Rip Through Time series, so the review ahead contains some minor spoilers for book one. Having established how Mallory ended up in Victorian Scotland in the first book, and starting a crime-solving career in that era, this book is about her settling into her new life and dealing with yet more murder. The story is a self-contained mystery that manages to resolve itself while filling in some characters’ backstories and introducing some new characters. Also, the slow-burn […]
A Rip Through Time (A Rip Through Time #1) by Kelley Armstrong
To be clear this (the first in a series) is a time travel, historical fiction with a light dusting of maybe implied possible romance. It should not be confused with the author’s A Stitch In Time series which are time travel, historical fiction, and romance novels. Am I putting that disclaimer here because I was confused about the similarity in the series name? Yes. Yes, I am. In this series, we start in Edinburgh on May 20, 2019. Vancouver police detective Mallory Atkinson is […]
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
My Mom has been trying to get me to read Jasper Fforde books for easily over a decade. Not sure why I’ve resisted. Though perhaps it’s due to our different reading preferences. She only likes a small percentage of recommendations I make . Naturally, The Murderbot Diaries was one success but mostly I miss. With how long she’s been persistent I read “The Eyre Affair”, I have felt pressured to like it. Which has made me drag my feet. I borrowed it two years ago […]
Lost In The Future V01: The Storm by Damian
Lost In The Future V01: The Storm by Damian and illustrated by Alex Fuentes is a fun adventure story in a graphic novel format, that is short, (maybe not sweet) but has some interesting segments. It has the action and the friendship aspects that keep things moving without being “too much” adventure and no plot, or all plot and not enough action. The art is the real drawback for me with the too Nickelodeon-like and/or Uncle Grandpa/Gravity Falls/Steven Universe/The Amazing World of Gumball/etc. images. From […]
