January 21, 2025

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Review: Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite

Can a murder mystery even BE cozy? Is that really a thing? I wouldn’t have sought this book out on my own, but the publisher reached out to me to see if I’d like to read it and the blurb caught me. A cozy murder mystery in space? I’ve been all about sci-fi lately, so […]

Review: Road to Ruin by Hana Lee

I’m sorry to have missed posting this before the release date, because now I have robbed you of several days in which you could have been reading this book. Road to Ruin is an adrenaline rush with an absolutely unique setting. The desert is almost a character in itself. It is filled with deadly storms […]

Review: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

It is a fact well-known that an exiled Faerie prince on the run from his homicidal mother must be in want of… a cat. Okay, maybe not, but that’s the goal in Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands. Wendell Bambleby is on the hunt for a door back to his own kingdom of Faerie, and […]

Review: Putting the Ice in Nice by Diana Pharaoh Francis

You simply can’t have read urban fantasy for any length of time and not have encountered Diana Pharaoh Francis. I’ve seen her name for years but never had an excuse to read anything. Not for lack of desire, but through a very, very long reading list. That was, until I discovered RJ Blain and went […]

Review: Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey

Finally, in this volume, we get all the gory details of how Valdemar was gifted with their mythical Companions. I won’t spoil it for you, especially not with how long it’s been since this series started. The infant kingdom of Valdemar is led by a good man, but he is still just a man, as […]

Review: Thornhedge by T Kingfisher

Everything T Kingfisher (and Ursula Vernon) does is perfect. This is not an exaggeration. Everything I have read under any pen name, I have loved. This story is no different. Yes, this is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty. No, it is not the Disney or even the Grimm version. This is a story about unintended […]

Review: The Sun & The Void by Gabriela Romero Lacruz

I can’t lie, I’ve been a fan of Gabriela Romero Lacruz since before she was an author and before I even knew her name. I ran across her shop from a social media post ages ago, and the tiger mug I drink my coffee out of makes me smile every time I use it. I […]

Review: The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

I jumped at the chance to review this book based on the synopsis. Gods that are AIs? Well, as someone who’s been thinking people have been a little too worshipful of AIs lately, I was incredibly interested in this book. It wasn’t what I was expecting, to be honest, but I found it intriguing and […]