A little yuletide murder by Donald Bain, Jessica Fletcher
Murder She Wrote : #11 I’m not quite sure how to start with this one. I mean, Murder She Wrote… Look, you’ll have to blame Himself...
2 January 2021
The First Person Narrator…
I used to hate books that were all I I I. Many seemed to be an excuse for lazy writing to me. And some still are, but I no longer turn away the second I see that the story is being told by an “I”, because they can be quite wonderful, in a good author’s hands.
The beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
This was chosen by my book club as their next read, I’m not sure I would have picked it up otherwise, although I had heard a...
6 July 2020
Network effect by Martha Wells
The Murderbot Diaries #5 I love Murderbot! and all the robot pals. Also don’t be put off by this being the fifth in a series and...
28 May 2020
Assassin’s Fate by Robin Hobb
Fitz and the Fool ; Book 3 The Realm of the Elderlings #16 So the trilogy comes to an end. And I guess that fact that...
14 April 2020
Fool’s Assassin by Robin Hobb
The Fitz and the Fool ; book 1 Realm of the Elderlings #14 Okay, so years and years ago, so many years ago in fact that...
2 April 2020
How to stop time by Matt Haig
This is only the third book by Haig that I’ve read, but I’ve enjoyed them all and really like his style of writing. But there is...
17 November 2019
A brightness long ago by Guy Gavriel Kay
It has been over ten years since I’ve read a Kay book! Or at least the last post on the blog reviewing a Kay book is...
6 September 2019
Children of blood and bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Legacy of Orïsha #1 I added this book to Mount TBR back in 2018, but it took it being nominated for Not-a-Hugo-but-the-Lodestar to get me to...
13 August 2019
The calculating stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Lady Astronaut ; 1 I’ve heard a lot of positive feedback about Mary Robinette Kowal, but the only thing by her I’ve ever read is...
31 July 2019
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
It has been years since I’ve read a book by Novik. I read her Temeraire way back in 2006, and was a big fan until I...
14 July 2019
Ghost wall by Sarah Moss
I first saw mention of this book on Tor.com which described it as a book that leads us onto the muddy, bloodstained road that Folk Horror...
4 July 2019
The girl with the dragon heart by Stephanie Burgis
Tales from the Chocolate Heart ; 2 I’ve been meaning to read this book ever since I heard it was coming out, but it has taken...
29 June 2019