September Book Haul
I seem to be getting a lot better at reading books promptly after buying them. I’ve got an audiobook rule that I can’t buy a new one until I’m ready to listen to it, which has helped reduce the TBR…
Assassin’s Apprentice
Fitz is the illegitimate son of Prince Chivalry, in a land where royalty are named for the qualities they will possess. A bastard can be a liability and Chivalry abdicates his position as king-in-waiting, but not to care for his…
Save the Date
Charlie’s the youngest member of the Grant family, a family whose life has been semi-fictionalised in a newspaper comic strip for as long as she can remember. Grant Central is coming to an end, and with it the sale of…
The Silence of the Girls
Briseis is a young Trojan woman whose city falls to the Greeks. The men and boys are slaughtered and the women taken as slaves. Briseis is awarded to Achilles as a trophy of war. This is her story. Great Achilles….
By the Pricking of Her Thumb
By the Pricking of Her Thumb is the sequel to The Real-Town Murders and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous book. Alma’s debt is piling up and she really needs a few good jobs to keep paying…
Top Ten: Autumn TBR
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. I’ve read about half of what I put on my most anticipated spring TBR, but here I am again with ten books I have good intentions of reading soon. Muse…
Neverworld Wake
Bea wants to get to the bottom of how her boyfriend died. After a year of grieving she’s given the opportunity to meet up with the friends she’s drifted apart from. They will be the key to finding out what…
Rosewater
Rosewater is a Nigerian town grown up around a mysterious alien dome. Kaaro is a sensitive who was there from the start, the dome sending out spores which give people like him a telepathic gift. No one knows what the…
Other Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith is an Australian philosopher and diving enthusiast, with particular interest in cephalopods, which goes someway to explaining this book. I did find it quite hard to absorb and switched to an audiobook part way through. I possibly missed…
Jinxed
Lacey Chu wants to be a companioneer at MONCHA, one of the engineers responsible for creating the robotic pets called baku. First she needs to get into Profectus and get a level 3 baku. Her dreams seem to be at…
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