Submit the three best and one worst books you read during 2022 below. Include links to your posts so people can read your reviews. The books may have any publication date, you just need to have read them this year. If you have something you must tell the world about any of the books, add your … [Read more]
The Hollow of Fear (Lady Sherlock, #3) by Sherry Thomas
This series is so fun. I think this is my favorite one so far, because it did two things. First, the plot hinges on Charlotte/Sherlock saving her dear friend and would-be paramour Lord Ingram from murder charges when his wife turns up dead on his estate in a gruesome fashion. And second, we … [Read more]
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 by Edited by Rebecca Roanhorse
I look forward to this collection every year and so it was a treat to see it pop up in the bookstore recently. The selections are always varied and interesting, and John Joseph Adams should get special kudos for all the preparatory work he does before he chooses the best 80 stories and hands them … [Read more]
Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
Wow. This was really good. I didn't know where the book was going at all, but I had fun just hanging on for the ride. I wonder how do other readers think this book is going to end? I have some thoughts noodling around in my head. "Just Like Home" follows 30 something year old Vera Crowder. Vera … [Read more]
Bury Me Deep by Christopher Pike
I am going to boo the heck out of the cover of the newest release, I loved the older version of the cover I had when I was a teen. I really did love this book ridiculously as a teenager, and I still enjoyed it. Pike really did just go all out with murder and really grown up topics. I thought this … [Read more]
The Power of Rude: A Woman’s Guide to Asserting Herself by Rebecca Reid
Best for: Women who are tired of being polite to their own detriment. In a nutshell: Author Reid offers tips on how to be ‘rude’ in different life situations as a means to stop putting everyone else’s needs above our own. Worth Quoting: “My desire not to be rude made me the absolute worst … [Read more]
The Garden by Tomi Adeyemi
Persephone by Lev Grossman
The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow
Undercover by Tamsyn Muir
What the Dead Know by Nghi Vo
The Candles Are Burning by Veronica G. Henry
Out of the Mirror, Darkness by Garth Nix
Wow. I really wish this series of short stories had been released around Halloween, some of the stories are very good and the horror/fantasy elements are great. There are at least two stories I wish had been longer novels (The Six Deaths of the Saint and Undercover) because of how good they were and … [Read more]
