Category Archives: fantasy
The Night Raven by Sarah Painter
Read December 2025 Recommended for fans of new adult UF ★ ★ ★ A popcorn read. An interesting start to an urban fantasy series set in London. Lydia has come back ‘home’ to London, taking a break … Continue reading
Candle & Crow by Kevin Hearne. Not sure I’d crow about it.
Read December 2025 Recommended for Kevin Hearne fans ★ ★ ★ The first book in the series, Ink & Sigil introduced the reader to a new character in the Iron Druid world, Al MacBharrais. Al soon made … Continue reading
Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis. Not in the least.
Read November 2025 Recommended for fans of Kingfisher ★ ★ ★ 1/2 “He woke up with no eyebrows and no idea how he’d gotten into such a position. It wasn’t just that he couldn’t remember why … Continue reading
The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt
Read January 2025 Meh ★ ★ I wanted to like it. (Interesting that we say that, right, as if are trying to convince ourselves and the dear reader that we gave a book a chance). It was … Continue reading
Royal Gambit: A Novel by Daniel O’Malley
Read December 2025 Recommended for fans of the aristocracy ★ ★ ★ 1/2 The Rook, Daniel O’Malley’s first book, was one of my favorites in 2013. It had a few problems, but on the whole, it was a … Continue reading
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
Unfinished October 2025 Recommended for fans of portal fantasies not rated I grew up on portal fantasies. It was a tremendously popular trope for 1970s and 1980s fantasies, from the junior reader The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Phantom Tollbooth, … Continue reading
Emerald Blaze by Ilona Andrews. More tepid, really.
Read January 2025 Recommended for fans Andrews New Adult romance ★ ★ 1/2 I’m an outlier on this one, but I found this to be largely a slog. While I appreciated the first trilogy in the series centering on … Continue reading
Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
3 Read October 2025 Recommended for fans of Golden Age mysteries ★ ★ ★ 1/2 “It was a strange game he played with his readers and one that only undermined the quality of his writing.” Susan Ryeland was of course, … Continue reading
Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh
Read October 2021 and 2025 Recommended for UF paranormal romance fans ★ ★ ★ 1/2 #2 in my chain-smoking reads. I don’t know what’s happened, truly I don’t. I probably have QB™ again. At any rate, now I understand why … Continue reading
Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne
Read August 2025 Recommended for UF fans ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Kevin Hearne is best known for the Iron Druid series (first book Hounded), a series I really wanted to enjoy but was unable to get past the premise of … Continue reading
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