Book Review: A Charm of Magpies series by K.J. Charles

These books are pretty short and I binge read them all in a few days so I thought I'd review them together as a series. Summary: The Magpie Lord, book one of A Charm of Magpies Exiled to China for twenty years, Lucien Vaudrey never planned to return to England. But with the mysterious deaths … Continue reading Book Review: A Charm of Magpies series by K.J. Charles

Book Review: Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw

Summary: Contemporary fantasy in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, whose family has been keeping the supernatural community not-alive and well for generations. When Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, is unexpectedly called to Paris to present at a medical conference, she expects nothing more exciting than professional discourse on zombie reconstructive … Continue reading Book Review: Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw

Book Review: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Summary: Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks. Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to … Continue reading Book Review: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Book Review: Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews

Summary: Kate has come a long way from her origins as a loner taking care of paranormal problems in post-Shift Atlanta. She's made friends and enemies. She's found love and started a family with Curran Lennart, the former Beast Lord. But her magic is too strong for the power players of the world to let … Continue reading Book Review: Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews

Book Review: An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris

Summary: Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma. A world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially by a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across the border to Mexico Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their … Continue reading Book Review: An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris

Book Review: In the Labyrinth of Drakes by Marie Brennan

Summary: Even those who take no interest in the field of dragon naturalism have heard of Lady Trent's expedition to the inhospitable deserts of Akhia. Her discoveries there are the stuff of romantic legend, catapulting her from scholarly obscurity to worldwide fame. The details of her personal life during that time are hardly less private, … Continue reading Book Review: In the Labyrinth of Drakes by Marie Brennan

Book Review: The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells

This is short series of novellas that I binge read and then had to wait a couple of weeks for the last one to come out. Now that they're all available and I've read them all I decided to review them all together. Weeeee, Murderbot!   The Murderbot Diaries are four novellas by Martha Wells … Continue reading Book Review: The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells

Book Review: Walking Through Fire by Sherri Cook Woosley

Summary: The end of the world begins as literal fire rains down from the heavens. Ancient gods are released from their prison, eager to reestablish their long-lost power. But Rachel Deneuve has bigger, more contemporary concerns than a divine war. Her son Adam is in the middle of a fight against leukemia, and Rachel is … Continue reading Book Review: Walking Through Fire by Sherri Cook Woosley

Book Review: Blood of Heirs by Alicia Wanstall-Burke

Summary: Lidan Tolak is the fiercest of her father’s daughters; more than capable of one day leading her clan. But caught between her warring parents, Lidan’s world begins to unravel when another of her father’s wives falls pregnant. Before she has time to consider the threat of a brother, a bloody swathe is cut through … Continue reading Book Review: Blood of Heirs by Alicia Wanstall-Burke

Book Review: Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw

Summary: Greta Helsing inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. Although barely making ends meet, this is just the quiet, supernatural-adjacent life Greta's been groomed for … Continue reading Book Review: Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw