The Roses of May 2nd in the series by Dot Hutchison Thomas and Mercer, 2017 Adult Thriller Summary: This isn't a continuation of the story in The Butterfly Garden. This is a new situation with a different serial killer but it features the same FBI team and there are characters and events related to the…
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by the Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week the theme is online resources for book lovers so I thought I'd mention a couple things I use and read at work that might help other people. Fantastic Fiction is super…
Olga Yastremska 123RF.com For the last thirteen days of October, Imyril at There's Always Room for One More is hosting a Wyrd and Wonder event all about the darker side of fantasy. This is a fairly flexible readathon but it does give me some ways to prioritize the aformentioned teetering pile of books. I'm leaning…
Photo by Monstera on Pexels.com On Green Tea Librarian: I reviewed: Shadowfire, The Raven Heir, Certain Dark Things, Savage Lover, and Load Poems Like Guns. I also wrote about some of the things I'm reading this weekend. On Bewitching Writer: I wrote the poem, "Love and Logic."
Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan compiled, translated, and introduced by Farzana Marie Holy Cow! Press, 2015 Summary: This is an anthology of multiple women poets from Herat. The English translation sits on one side while the original is on the opposing page. There are also brief biographies of each poet and…
Savage Lover 3rd in the Brutal Birthright series by Sophie Lark Adult Romance Summary: Nero Gallo is the wild and unpredictable sibling. Camille works at her dad's auto shop. When her brother gets caught with a bag of drugs, she makes a deal with the cop. Things get complicated when Nero gets involved. Likes: Nero…
Photo by Thirdman on Pexels.com I love spooky season! And I just finished my second October Challenge book yesterday so I need to figure out my next spooky read. It is a hard choice. My pile of options is attempting to topple over. But I've also been picking up some fantasy and contemporary options, all…
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Nightfire, 2021 Adult Supernatural Horror 7 cups of tea out of 11 Summary: Atl is on the run after her family is decimated by a rival group of vampires. Domingo collects interesting items out of the trash and sells them. Ana is an experienced cop. All of them are…
The Raven Heir by Stephanie Burgis Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2021 Middle Grade Fantasy 4 cups of tea out of 11 Summary: Cordelia and her siblings live in the forest with their powerful sorceress mother but things get complicated when Cordelia wants answers and enemies want to put them on the throne to exploit. Likes: I…
Shadowfire originally published as Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978) sequel to The Birthgrave by Tanith Lee DAW Books, 2015 Adult Dark Fantasy Summary: Tuvek has a complicated parentage and he has abilities that make him a great warrior of his people but he's always the outsider. A monumental shift occurs when his tribe is attacked,…
