Carrion Crow by Heather Parry
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Trigger warning: Some body horror throughout. Wow. So Carrion Crow was a gut punch. Parry is partly inspired by the true story of Blanche Monnier and writes a fictional story following the Périgord … [Read more]
Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan
Thistlemarsh is supposed to be romantasy. It sort of is, but maybe I just wasn’t into this one. I didn’t really see much of any romance, just a sort of “forced to work together and suddenly we might have feelings (kinda)”? The premise is fine: Mouse, a WWI nurse, has come home to care for her … [Read more]
Common Goal (Gamechangers #4) by Rachel Reid
Eric Bennett is a hockey goalie for the New York Admirals. He’s pushing forty and knows that the end of his career is coming, but he finds it hard to take the plunge. Recently divorced, he’s eager to explore the other side of the bisexual equation, so when he meets Kyle at a gay bar he’s game. But … [Read more]
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
That’s the most positive thing I can come up with about this book. What a slog this was. The plot: Ella Rubinstein is a forty year old stay at home mother to two children and a possibly perpetually unfaithful husband. She takes up a job with a publishing house to revise a novel called Sweet … [Read more]
The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen
No one in the town of Eternity expected widowed, middle-aged Twyla Banneker to partner with her neighbor and best friend, Frank Ellis, to join the Tanrian Marshals. But that was eight years ago, and Twyla and Frank have rewarding careers patrolling the strange land of Tanria, despite the misgivings … [Read more]
“B” is for Burglar: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (#2) by Sue Grafton
Just two weeks after the events of 'A' is for Alibi, Kinsey Millhone is hitting a slow time at the office. Unfortunately, this is put a stop to by Beverly Danziger; she wants Kinsey to find her sister Elaine Boldt. There's a small legal matter that Beverly needs Elaine's signature; one so small, she … [Read more]
