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What Moves the Dead

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Wow. This was so good. It could have been 100 pages longer and I wouldn’t have noticed. This was a great twist on “The Fall of the House of Usher” and I loved every second of it. “What Moves the Dead” follows Alex Easton that is a retired soldier that is rushing to see their childhood friend, Madeline Usher. Alex served with Madeline’s brother Roderick and finds both […]

Cute fantasy romances that avoid being saccharine

Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher

Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher

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For the last year, my favourite books list has included a mixture of “cozy” and “weird”. It’s hard to get me in the mood for something too traditional; I’m enjoying books with romantic elements but get frustrated by lack of non-relationship plot; and I think nothing will ever live quite up to my euphoric feelings of “wtf” with Harrow the Ninth. A friend recommended Paladin’s Grace to me and I am so grateful for that! I devoured it and the sequel, Paladin’s  and am disappointed Scribd and […]

This is the most fun I’ve had reading a scary book, like ever!

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

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I selected this book to read because it sounded weird and scary and interesting.  I had no idea funny was on the menu too!  It did not disappoint. Kara kinda starts out as a sad sack that you root for.  She just got divorced, and rather than moving back in with her BANANAS and pain in the butt mother, she moves into her uncle’s spare room.  It’s a spare room in his museum of oddities – Uncle Earl’s Museum of Wonders.  The first (nearly) half of […]

A teenage wizard girl and her somewhat sentient cookie and sourdough do big stuff

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

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I was a little late to the A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, but I’m glad I finally got it; this one is both fun and a little inventive. The basic story is plucky heroine with limited resources faces off against unknown and then known end-of-the-world kind of badness, and triumphs with the help of some friends. Said heroine is 14-year-old Mona, who lives as a magic user in a world mostly suspicious of magic. Mona’s magic only works on baked goods, which is just […]

“kidnapped nuns. And a wagonload of barrels and a man obsessed with oak trees. The gods are being more inscrutable than usual.”

Paladin's Strength by T Kingfisher

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The day Kingfisher comes out with a book I don’t love will be a sad day indeed, but it is not this day. Here’s the thing. KJ Charles reviewed this book over on goodreads and how do you outdo a reviewer like that? So don’t read this review. If you must read a review, read Charles’, and if you’ve read the first book, just dive in knowing you’ll have a blast and then come back and gush in the comments. Plot: Istvhan, another of the […]

Suicide mission- drama and heroics

Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

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These two books form a duopoly – the Clocktaur war.  They are set in a fantasy world, which is well drawn and clearly has activities beyond what happens in this story. The premise of the story is that two countries/city states are at war.  Or rather, one city is sending strange machines that destroy everything towards the other city.  These are the Clockwork boys- mechanical things that appear to be made of bone, are covered with gears, and are very difficult to stop.  The front […]



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