Seed No Evil by Kate Collins
I’ve read a lot of these cozy flower shop mysteries from Kate Collins from my library (love you, miss you!) and it occurred to me when I was asking for books for the book exchange, I could put one of them on it. So I got this book, Seed No Evil, and read it now when it is the perfect time for a book with a small town with charming, quirky characters. The town is so white. But then, my brother lives in a mid-West […]
Beaus and Arrows by Rashida T. Williams
My first Federal Government job was working at the National Cancer Institute as an administrator. I learned a lot, but the job wasn’t for me and I got let go at the end of the probation year. My fellow hire was a girl named Rashida. We became fast friends and even though the job didn’t work out we stayed in touch over the years. Rashida is a delightful ray of sunshine, so when I found out on Facebook she got a book publishing deal, I […]
Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield
3.5 stars In which giving people the ability to time travel goes as well as you would expect. Alice Payne is a highway-person in 1788, using her girlfriend’s clockwork robot to assist in her robberies. Meanwhile, Prudence Zuniga is in 1889, trying to stop the first in a series of events that will lead to a War across time and history. It is not going well. Every time she interferes, the events in history play out anyway. She clearly is getting more desperate, and seems […]
Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
I have been trying to stay away from my favorite genre with books written by white dudes, but I found Empress of Forever on a list of books with a badass heroine, and how could I pass that up? Vivian Liao is a rich and powerful business woman used to getting her own way, until she draws too much attention to herself from the Government and needs to disappear. Instead, she sets off a chain of events where she is sent […]
Redshirts by John Scalzi
I guess I have been doing this review thingy for a while because I remember when Redshirts was being reviewed on the Cannonball, and I remember the reviews were mostly positive. I try not to go back and read reviews of my book until I’m done with my review, unless I just can’t think of what to say. Do you ever have a review like that? It’s frustrating. I got my copy of this review in a subscription box of sci-fi and fantasy books and […]
