Moving right along!! Today's finalist review is for The Honorable Con by Michele C. Shaw! Ailyanna was one good con away from her ticket East and escape from the looming war, and instead sheโs locked in the palace dungeon staring at a lifetime sentence. You scam one prince and suddenly youโre the captain of the... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: Dogged by Michael R. Fletcher
This is Esme and I's finalist in this year's SPFBO! I have historically bounced off a lot of Fletcher's work, not because it isn't well written or enjoyable, but because it is often super, super dark. I've been known to like some grimdark here and there but like... real dark, y'all. Esme got super excited... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: No More Levels by Benjamin Barreth
I'm just flying through these finalists!* Today I'm diving into my review for No More Levels - which surprised me a lot! LitRPG and I have a complicated relationship, and so I don't always go into them with the highest of expectations (not that they aren't written well or have their audience or anything, but... Continue Reading →
Review: A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett
I had 'Request the next Ana and Din mystery' on my to-do list when an email asking if I'd like to read it came in. Uh, yes please. I love this series! So thanks to the author, as well as Del Rey via NetGalley for the review copy. In the canton of Sapirdad, two of... Continue Reading →
Review: How to Fake It in Society by KJ Charles
KJ Charles is another author that I will absolutely read anything by. She could write a nonfiction book about a subject I am not at all interested in and I would be all over it. Thanks to the author as well as Bramble via NetGalley for the review copy! It is 1821 and Nicolas-Marc, Comte... Continue Reading →
Review: Only Spell Deep by Ava Morgyn
I really enjoyed my time with The Bone Witches, so when this one was offered to me and I read the synopsis it sounded right up my alley! Thanks to the author, as well as St. Martin's Press via NetGalley for the review copy! Judeth Cole has always had certain uncanny abilities. But when she... Continue Reading →
Review: A Murder Most Camp by Nicolas DiDomizio
Is there a better way to enter Pride month than reading a super gay murder mystery? (Trick question - there is clearly no better way.) Thanks to the author, as well as Poisoned Pen Press via NetGalley for the review copy. Mikey Hartford IV has coasted through his twenties in a distracted blur of yachts... Continue Reading →
Review: River of Bones and Other Stories by Rebecca Roanhorse
I love a good book of short stories, and when this one was offered to me as having a Sixth World short story in it, I was in. I'm running behind on reviews, which always seems to happen when the SPFBO comes around, but dammit, I am catching up! Thanks to the author as well... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: The Moonlight Lies by Aengie Scevity
Moving right along with my pile of books! Today I'm reviewing The Moonlight Lies! Fourteen-year-old Cassiopeia Brown has never belonged. Ridiculed, detested, and powerless, sheโs an outcast even among her own kind โ a goblin cursed with fiery red hair. So when the prophesied hero refuses to face the coming Moonfall โ a magical cataclysm... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: The Raven’s Revenge by K.J. Wagner
Getting closer to the bottom of my reading pile for this year!! Today, I'm reviewing The Raven's Revenge by K. J. Wagner. A dead man tells a single tale. A drowned man tells none. A bloody civil war has left elves as the inferior race in the country of Curliffe. Hot-tempered elf Slate Raven takes... Continue Reading →