The Library of the Dead
Ropa talks to ghosts. She acts as a messenger between the living and the dead, delivering mostly mundane messages, and occasionally recipes for the perfect Battenberg. Sometimes the dead are really annoying, but lately something seems amiss. Children are going missing, and some are returned…
20 Books of Summer
20 Books of Summer is hosted by Cathy at 746 Books. The goal of 20 Books of Summer is to read 20 books from your TBR in three months. I’m totally including some of my summer pre-orders in this list because one of my 2021…
Puzzling and easy reads… a weekly check-in
I have just been in the mood for light and easy reads this week, my darker themed books are giving me evils. I read Love is for Losers by Wibke Brueggemann which seems a bit of a marmite book but I really enjoyed the cynical…
Firekeeper’s Daughter
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine lives her life split between two cultures, half Ojibwe, half white, not quite feeling like she belongs in either. When her best friend is murdered, she is approached by the FBI, to go undercover to try and find out who has been…
Dial A for Aunties
1 (accidental) murder 2 thousand wedding guests 3 (maybe) cursed generations 4 meddling Asian aunties to the rescue! Family is important to Meddy Chan. She chose to join their wedding business rather than following her boyfriend across the country. She’s never been able to find…
Wilderwood and wild woods… a weekly check-in
I got back into a blogging routine last week and posted reviews of Future Perfect and A History of What Comes Next, as well as my round up of May releases on my radar. On Saturday we dusted off the New Forest Walks book and…
A History of What Comes Next
There can only ever be two. They were the Ninety-Eight, now they are the Ninety-Nine, a mother and daughter with a mission to send humans to the stars. With the Germans defeated, Von Braun and his scientists are trapped in Germany. The Ninety-Nine cannot risk…
On My Radar: May
I may have a whole ten of these books pre-ordered and I am tempted by plenty of the others. May seems to be a massive month for new releases. My copy of Heartstopper Volume Four has arrived early, yay for Waterstones, and I have a…
Future Perfect
A bomb explodes on a New York catwalk, killing a young model. The designer has a follow-up show in London where Police Commissioner, Christian Verger, has just been notified by his voice assistant that he has a 99.74% chance of dying tomorrow. Algorithms are already…
The magical woods… a weekly check-in
I reckon we are a day or two away from peak bluebell. The woods we walk Scully through every day are full of secretive bluebell bulbs, and every year they look like they are not going to do much, then BAM, everywhere is blue. The…
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