On My Radar: October
October seems to bring with it even more fabulous books than September did. I hope you’re ready! We might actually see the third book in the Hollow Gods series at long last! I need to go recap the previous books,…
Eight Detectives
Grant McAllister is an author living in seclusion when Julia Hart approaches him, wanting to republish his book. Thirty years ago he wrote a series of stories exploring the rules of the murder mystery genre, but he doesn’t seem to…
Prequels and Whatnot: Midnight Sun and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
So yeah, I read both the Twilight rehash and the prequel to The Hunger Games, with varying success. I was never a massive Twilight fan but when I first read the books they were fun diversions, read at an age…
The Court of Miracles
The Court of Miracles is a criminal underground, a place where those who don’t belong in polite Parisian society can be accepted and find protection. Thieves, prostitutes, assassins, smugglers, mercenaries, gamblers, beggars, drug addicts and forgerers, they all have their…
The two series that broke my lockdown slump
As you might have noticed, 2020 has not been a great reading year for me. I was dusting off my challenge lists to see if I could get started again and was faced with reading a mystery. I mean I…
On My Radar: More September Releases
Well the week of 600 releases is upon us (though it has been pointed out that many of these are academic books so maybe we shouldn’t panic). Here are the September releases that I have yet to cover here or…