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Part 10 It’s Going to Come Down to Semantics

Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach

The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

Back Story by David Mitchell

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

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Book 46: Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher Rough Review: 4 stars! It was already official but I’ll say it again – I’ll read anything by Kingfisher/Vernon. Her books are just comfort food to me at this point. Hemlock wasn’t my favourite (the Paladin books are what I discovered first and the world of the White Rat is my favourite Kingfisher place to be), but the concept was cool and intriguingly creepy, I love a neurodiverse-coded protagonist in her mid-30s who gets to have a […]

“Don’t be jealous, people, but I am the winner of today’s Giant-Pile-of-Shit Scavenger Hunt.”

The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen

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The second in Hart and Mercy series. A slow burn, friends to lovers story, with no where near enough dragons. Plot: Twyla was in a generic 80s sitcom bad marriage, where nothing was extremely bad, but nothing was good either. She gave and gave and got nothing back. Then her husband dies and she befriends the guy who lives next door (who was also recently made single from a bad relationship). Both are pretty raw from their unsuccessful first run at a marriage and not […]

Two Completely Unrelated Books

Death to Anyone Who Reads This by Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen

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cbr17bingo – free (replacing Arts) Death to Anyone Who Reads This  So almost immediately after I said I wasn’t likely to read this short (100-page) sequel to The Balloon Hunter, I went ahead and read it. I’m not sure what had made me think it would be more of a horror novel than the first one. It isn’t really, although there is some more violence in this once. Similar to The Balloon Hunter, this one is a “found novel,” but this time through journal entries instead of postcards. […]

My Travels to Tanria Come to an End

The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen

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The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam is the third and final book in the series that began with The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy. It was one of my most looked forward to books of the year, and while it was my least favorite of the three, it still has that Megan Bannen way of approaching a story that I love. In her Fun Author Questions with Powell’s Books Bannen talks about loving to mash genres together so that we can all have fun in […]

A lovely ending to a very original fantasy trilogy

The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen

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Thanks to Netgalley and Orbit Books for this ARC. My opinions, are as always, my own. This is the third book in the series, and as such, not the best place to start reading. This review may contain some spoilers for the previous two books in the series, and the place to begin is with The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy. Tanrian Marshall Rosie Fox can’t die. Or at least she doesn’t stay dead, because she’s a demigod, daughter of the Trickster. She is 157 […]

She died for the third time in a week and a half

The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen

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Tanrian Marshal Rosie Fox dies in chapter one of The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam, but that’s not her biggest problem. Her biggest problem is that she comes back to life. She’s immortal and she doesn’t like it. Rosie’s death happened when she tried to touch something inside a malfunctioning portal device. The portal device also died in the incident, requiring Dr. Adam Lee to visit Tanria to fix the portal. Marshal Fox and Dr. Lee met five years earlier, and she bound his wounded […]



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