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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
Grandad, There’s a Head on the Beach by Colin Cotterill
Read July 2025 Recommended for fans of unusual mysteries ★ ★ ★ 1/2 There was enough to enjoy in the first book of the Jimm series, Killed at the Whim of a Hat that I felt the second book would be worth … Continue reading
Esperance by Adam Oyebanji
Unfinished, June 2025 Recommended for fans Octavia Butler ★ ★ 1/2 The combination of sci-fi and police procedural was tantalizing, particularly when it notes it will include non-white viewpoints, so when I read Richard’s enthusiastic review Richard’s enthusiastic review , I immediately … Continue reading
Killed at the Whim of a Hat
July 2025 Recommended for fans Octavia Butler ★ ★ ★ I’ve been a fan of the Dr. Siri series by Cotterill, but gradually separated over his decision to incorporate more sensationalist killers into his historical Thailand tales, a take I … Continue reading
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older
Read April 2025 Recommended for fans of light sci-fi, lady detectives ★ ★ ★ 1/2 The first book of a series is always going to leave world-building questions (unless you are Brandon Sanderson), and subsequent books are when the author … Continue reading
When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
Read March 2025 Recommended for fans of urban fantasy, Ilona Andrews ★ ★ ★ ★ Enthralling. I had mentally filed Roth under ‘hugely-popular-YA-Authors-but-not-for-me’ and promptly forgot about her. Then she changed the game by putting out a novella about older … Continue reading
The Mimicking of Known Successes
Read November 2024 Recommended for fans of Holmes fanfic ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Gives a very Holmes and Watson vibe, set on a gas planet. Hugo, Locus and Nebula nominee, it worked well at novella length, … Continue reading
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Calamitous Chinese Killing. It is calamitous, all right.
Read September 2024 Recommended only for series fans ★ ★ A long time ago (2017, or BC, as I like to say (Before Covid), I read most of the Inspector Singh series. The premise is a pudgy (much … Continue reading
The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry
Read July 2024 Recommended for fans of time period fantasy ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Entertaining, unusual, and quite possibly problematic; your mileage may vary. Main narrator is younger woman who is a fire-witch and who isn’t particularly careful about the … Continue reading
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Read July 2024 Recommended for fans of Kingfisher, retellings ★ ★ ★ ★ Kingfisher’s latest is well written and up to her usual high standards, but in all probability, I will never read it again. It brought back unpleasant echoes … Continue reading
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