Maybe 2024 will be the year I finally learn to like beets and-or fennel - Green Kitchen Smoothies by David Frenkiel, Luise Vindahl
The mute servant says the thing that needs to be said in nearly every romance ever including this one - All the Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows
Mixing it up with gentrification, magic, and Mothman - When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole; Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews; I'm in Love with Mothman by Paige Lavoie
Review #9: The best of “New Weird” - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
The Lover from the Forest - The Lover by Silvia Moreno Garcia
Keep Your Friends Close And Your Enemies Closer - Renegades by Marissa Meyer
Some romantic books I read this summer and am reviewing now to reach a double Cannonball - Fangirl, the Manga: Volume 3 by Rainbow Rowell and Gabi Nam; Deal with the Devil by Kit Rocha; How the Wallflower Was Won by Eva Leigh; Knockout by Sarah Maclean
A subversion of the fated mates trope in Tangle of Need - Tangle of Need by Nalini Singh
Don’t cross a Doomsday (or his gentleman friend) - The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles
The master spy, the assassin, the telepathic daughter and their clairvoyant doggy - Spy x Family, vol 1 by Tatsuya Endo; Spy x Family, vol 2 by Tatsuya Endo; Spy x Family, vol 3 by Tatsuya Endo; Spy x Family, vol 4 by Tatsuya Endo; Spy x Family, vol 5 by Tatsuya Endo
Piano player, meet piano maker - What Music!: The Fifty-year Friendship between Beethoven and Nannette Streicher, Who Built His Pianos by Laurie Lawlor
The Shepherd King duology: power through the first book, it’s all worth it for the second - One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig; Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
The slow horror of watching your life fall apart, one terrible decision after another - Come Closer by Sara Gran
“Flowers are definitely better than people. Because you can find a person’s ratio of light, water, and attention, and it still won’t be enough. For flowers, it’s enough.” - Forget Me Not by Julie Soto
An Interesting Queer Horror - The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo
“For whom the wedding bells toll” - Sofia Khan is Not Obliged (2015) by Ayisha Malik
Rounding Out the Year With Some Manga - Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (Deluxe Edition Vol. 1) by Hitoshi Ashinano; Fourth Generation Head: Tatsuyuki Oyamato by Scarlet Beriko; Pure Love's Sexy Time by Psyche Delico; 4Town 4Real by Dirchansky and KAIfee
Well adjusted women with happy childhoods don’t f—- mobsters. - Run Posy Run by Cate C Wells
That Nun! - Make Meatballs Sing: The Life and Art of Corita Kent by Matthew Burgess
A bit like Sound of Music, but there are no nazis and the couple is queer - It Takes Two to Tumble by Cat Sebastian
A novella and a bridging book - The Archduke by Elisabeth Wheatley; Daindreth's Outlaw by Elisabeth Wheatley
I may have inadvertently started a new holiday tradition - Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday
An Approachable GBBO book just in time for the holidays - Cheeky Treats: Brilliant Bakes and Cakes by Liam Charles
“When a man dies from a bullet entering his chest, it’s a homicide. When a man dies from a meteorite landing on his head, it’s a Tragedy. Don’t use bullets. Use meteorites. Don’t commit a homicide. Commit a Tragedy.” - Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes
“I suspect if I had owned a border collie, this story would have a very different ending, and I probably would not have been around to type it up. But I had Bongo, and he saved our lives because he is simple and made of nose.” - The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
Review #5: Ursula Vernon does it again - Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
“With some people, it’s not about winning or losing, That with some people, it’s just about playing. - Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
Triple Cannonballing with fugitive Blanche, here to solve your murder mysteries and nose around until all your secrets are exposed. - Blanche on the Lam (Blanche White, #1) by Barbara Neely
An unsettling tale of true friendship and demons, literal and metaphorical. - My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
A trippy, atmospheric sci-fi haunted house. - Rose/House by Arkady Martine
“A romance is a belief in the impossible: that anything ends happily.” - A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
“Just when you think you’ve seen the worst human beings have to offer, you find out you’re wrong.” - Holly (Holly Gibney, #3) by Stephen King
“Never trust. Never yield. Always guard your heart.” - The Serpent & The Wings of Night (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1) by Carissa Broadbent
Stay afloat. - The Wave by Tyler Charlton
Soylent Green is people! - Ultra-Processed People by Chris Van Tulleken
Cults, Sex, and Vegetarian Recipes - Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat ― An American History by Christina Ward
Review #3: I stayed up until 1:38 AM to finish reading this one - The September House by Carissa Orlando
The Kind of Man That Deserves to Be Run Down - Peg and Rose Stir Up Trouble by Laurien Berenson
I want to live in this book. - Clean Sweep (Innkeeper Chronicles, #1) by Ilona Andrews
“I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization.” - Voyage of the Basilisk (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #3) by Marie Brennan
Look, I just want to give this author five stars but he makes it so difficult! - The Tyranny of Faith (Empire of the Wolf, #2) by Richard Swan
“Beside her, Death set down his tea. ‘How do you feel about this woman? I could infect her with a light plague, perhaps. Or we could give her the pox? Blemished skin may do her vanity some good.'” - Belladonna (Belladonna, #1) by Adalyn Grace
Take a look it is in a book (and it’s fun too) - The Spell of a Story by Mariajo Ilustrajo
There Goes The Block - St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street by Ada Calhoun
Yo Ho! A Pirate’s Life for Me - Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller; Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller
Nothing Like Being On the Run to Help You Get to Know One Another - Daindreth's Outlaw by Elisabeth Wheatley
Unreliable Narration Abound - None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
Now You Know Who to Blame for These Earworms - Public Cowboy #1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry by Holly George-Warren
Living with the Inexplicable - The Dyatlov Pass Mystery by Cédric Mayen, Jandro González