Another month, another haul of books that's larger than my stack of read titles. By a lot. Oops 😉 eBooks I do try not to buy too many books - especially as these are the least likely to be read, if I'm honest! - but when one pops up on offer it can be hard … Continue reading Stacking the Shelves – March 2023
"The trade post stands alone, a dying ember in a hearth too vast for warmth." We first met Ten 'Doc' Low in Ten Low, a woman, a medic, with a dark past and sins to atone for. Hel's Eight picks up her story several years later, and we find her in self-imposed exile. But the ghosts of the … Continue reading Hel’s Eight – Stark Holborn
"Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place." When elderly siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan boy to … Continue reading Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
"They say that children born in wartime are likely to have problems throughout their lives; to struggle both with the uncertainties of the world and with their own emotions and to search in vain for happiness." With the Earth on the brink of environmental collapse, the billionaires of the world pool resources to fund any scientific … Continue reading Infinity Gate – MR Carey
"It is said that, long ago, there were many ways into the land of Underhill, but one by one they fell away." Felix 'Harry' Bodie is a children's TV presenter who thinks he can boost his fading career by going on one of those shows that digs into your family tree. His grandmother wrote a … Continue reading And Put Away Childish Things – Adrian Tchaikovsky
"When a gal's treasured childhood home of Vienna, Virginia, has two murders in six months, it makes her realise there really is no place like home - and maybe that's no longer a good thing." We first met Quinn Caine in To Kill a Mocking Girl, as she returns to her home town to work as … Continue reading A Midsummer Night’s Scheme – Harper Kincaid
The month started with an ARC approval on the 1st, promising good things for February 😉 ARCs I'm going to call this a really nice haul, and manageable - how unlike me 😉 Juliet E McKenna's The Cleaving is a 'feminist retelling of the Arthurian legends', which promises to be high on historical detail giving characters … Continue reading Stacking the Shelves – February 2023
"The man had disappeared from an isolated platform; the furthest platform eastward, in fact, on the 4º63' line, never a very popular ring." When a scholar disappears from a remote station on the platforms orbiting Jupiter, investigator Mossa is called in. It seems obvious that he has - like so many before him - simply … Continue reading The Mimicking of Known Successes – Malka Older
"This is a memoir about living a writing life - wanting to be a writer, becoming a writer, and being a writer - as acts of self-expression, self-assertion, and womanly survival." If I'm honest - and I usually am 😉 - I have very little idea of who Laurie Lisle is, which may not seem … Continue reading Word for Word – Laurie Lisle
"There was nothing scarier than a blind old woman with whites for eyes suddenly gripping your arm under a full moon night." What else to review on Valentines Day, than a romance? A dark, overly sexed-up, gothic romance, of course! 😉 Corvina Clemm has led a sheltered life, mostly alone with her mother and the … Continue reading Gothikana – RuNyx
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