The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
After reading Freida McFadden’s The Locked Door, I immediately dove into another one of her books. The Housemaid is about Millie, a young woman newly sprung from prison, who becomes a maid for a wealthy family. This is a thriller, so you know….things happen. Things I can’t reveal because it takes … [Read more]
The Other Side of the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
I inhaled the Night Huntress series back in the summer of 2017, working my way through the seven books of the initial series as well as a bunch of spin-offs. I was absolutely entranced by the world Jeaniene Frost created and it quickly became one of my favorite paranormal romance stories. One of the … [Read more]
Ashes of the Sun: Burningblade & Silvereye Book One by Django Wexler
More than 400 years ago there were two powerful entities, the Chosen and those who are now called ghouls. The Chosen wielded a magical power called deiat. With deiat they powered technological marvels like sky fortresses and more mundane blaster pistols. The ghouls channeled a biological magic … [Read more]
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1) by Holly Jackson
I was so pleasantly surprised by this one. It was an excellent choice to be reading on my birthday* to make up for the fact that my body is slowly succumbing to the forces of entropy. *Which was now over a month ago, whoopsie. I'm wary with YA these days, especially contemporary YA, because I … [Read more]
A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15) by Louise Penny
Not too much to say about this one. Not one of my favorites of this series. Parts of it I really liked, and parts of it I really did not. It's been over a month now, and I've read 1,000 books since then, so I'm really not remembering specifics here. I remember there was a missing woman, and that … [Read more]
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler and the Making and Breaking of the American Empire by Jonathan M. Katz
An excellent read and an infuriating read. Worth all five stars. And like Du Bois' Black Reconstruction and Ackerman's Reign of Terror, you're guaranteed to be peeved on every page. I knew the United States had a colonizing history dating back, well really to its foundation through the US-Mexican … [Read more]
