Series 3/7

Aug 18, 2022

Review of The Becoming (The Dragon Heart Legacy #2) by Nora Roberts

The second installment in Nora Roberts's Dragon Heart Legacy series is satisfying and comfortable, as Bree becomes more powerful,...

Aug 9, 2022

Review of Alias Emma (Alias Emma #1) by Ava Glass

Alias Emma is a fast-paced cat-and-mouse chase across hidden London, led by Emma Makepeace, a resourceful, tough, new spy determined to...

May 10, 2022

Review of Steelstriker (Skyhunter #2) by Marie Lu

With intriguing questions about loyalties and motivations, gutsy skirmishes, deep friendships, familial duty, and a smoldering romance...

Mar 24, 2022

Review of Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road #1) by Rachel Hartman

Rachel Hartman's young adult story follows irresistible, hardheaded, wonderfully faulted Tess as she breaks from rigid medieval gender...

Mar 16, 2022

Review of Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead by Elle Cosimano

Finlay dips her toe into a criminal underworld in the second in Cosimano's campy mystery series. She juggles motherhood, her ex, her...

Mar 10, 2022

Review of Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu

In Marie Lu's young adult dystopian series starter Legend, the Republic and Colonies war with each other, a plague separates the haves...

Mar 8, 2022

Review of The Awakening: The Dragon Heart Legacy #1 by Nora Roberts

I listened to this romantic fantasy about a chosen one, a long-lost family, portals to a magical world, and a treasure of a best...

Jan 11, 2022

Review of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers

Chambers's science fiction is full of heart, heartbreak, and hope--with a fascinating backdrop of space travel and interspecies...

Jan 6, 2022

Review of Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes #1) by Elizabeth Lim

I was captivated by Lim's fairy tale of a fantasy novel, particularly the vivid magical realism, Shiori's strength and abilities, and...

Dec 17, 2021

Review of the Cormoran Strike series books 1-4 by Robert Galbraith

The Cormoran Strike-Robin Ellacott Saga I've been listening to the fifth installment in this series, Troubled Blood, and during my many...

Nov 8, 2021

Review of Warcross (Warcross #1) by Marie Lu

You may see much of this young adult story coming, but Warcross is an action-packed quest to right wrongs in an immersive video game and...

Sep 22, 2021

Review of The Story Thieves (Story Thieves #1) by James Riley

Riley has crafted a middle-grade fantasy book with humor, adventure, characters to root for, and heart and depth that surprised me. I'll...

Aug 16, 2021

Review of Paper & Blood (Ink & Sigil #2) by Kevin Hearne

I enjoyed revisiting characters from Ink & Sigil, but I felt bogged down by recounted stories and detailed logistics, and I missed the...

Jul 26, 2021

Review of Rule of Wolves (King of Scars #2) by Leigh Bardugo

The moments of redemption aren’t too easy, and I found the various threads building toward the amazing ending to be satisfying and...

Jul 22, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Rule of Wolves, Leigh Bardugo's second and final book in the young adult King of Scars duology; I'm...

Jul 16, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/16/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Down Comes the Night, a young adult fantasy story featuring magical healing and warring kingdoms;...

Jul 15, 2021

Review of Fallen: A Novel of Suspense by Linda Castillo

Castillo's Amish setting is intriguing, I didn't see the resolution of the mystery coming, and I was kept engaged while listening to...

Jul 12, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/12/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a bizarre, dark set of short stories by a former Late Show with Stephen Colbert writer, Jen Spyra;...

Jun 30, 2021

June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite books from June! Here's the gist of each of the books I most loved reading during the past month, in the order in which...

Jun 22, 2021

Review of One of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus

This is a great, character-driven sequel to McManus’s young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying. Last year, in McManus's great young adult...

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