I’m kind of surprised I liked this because it kind of grated at me at first… and then. Backstory: It’s the quadrennial Tournament of Dragon-Slayers, where the greatest knights (lacking dragons to slay, having slayed them all) compete for the hand of a Fair Princess… and her dowry. Isobelle is the princess, with her ladies …
This is the third Carlene O’Connor book I have read in two different series. I would not have read a second, much less a third, if I did not enjoy them immensely. Murder at an Irish Chipper (think of a shop that sells the British food staple, fish and chips) is book 10 in the …
Love at 350° is a sweet sapphic romance novel set during the taping of a reality baking show. And, long story short, it’s a good sign when I finish a book and kind of want to re-read it shortly thereafter, yeah? Tori is a high school teacher, avid baker who is recovering from a bad …
[L]ast year I was quite taken by the book Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree […] I’ll be up front, this book owes a lot to L&L, which the author freely admits in her afterword. Which was nice because, yes, I was looking for something similar to… Reyna moves to a remote village on the …
We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker is… wow. Proof that I need a bit more faith in the good authors because Pinsker went places with this story I was not expecting and that is glorious! In the near future, Pilot is released. It’s a small brain implant that allows the brain to come close to …
Live from PAX West, a book review! There’s something to the notion of a time war, isn’t there? One faction wants This, another faction wants That, and time is the battlefield. There’s also something futile to the notion, but that’s another book (All of an Instant by Richard Garfinkle [out of print]). This book is …
