Book review
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Goodreads Monday/TBR Monday hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog invites you to post about what books are on your Goodreads “to read” lists or TBR lists, the progress you have made on your current books and reading challenges, and any other bookish news! I have finished the 20 Books of Summer Challenge by AnnaBookBel. As…
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Ad/PR/Patrocinado. For this week’s Stacking The Shelves hosted by Reading Reality I’m sharing some ARCs and books I’ve received from the authors and plan on reading and reviewing in the coming weeks and months. The Bristol Scholar by Kate Somers Published Sep 30, 2025 From Goodreads: 1884. Bristol, England. Twenty-year-old Evangeline Moore has endured three…
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I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return. The Ten Thousand Doors of…
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The Domino Murders, that’s what they’ll call them. One murder leads to the next. A domino effect. Toppling people instead of pieces, Which means, like the detective said, there are more to come. Book 1 in The Charity Shop Detective Agency series. Fiona Sharp is a retired volunteer at a charity shop called Dogs Need…
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“Well, there you have it.” I flicked the board with my pencil. “Five suspects and one victim.” Book 1 in the Sea Glass Beach Mysteries series. Paige Andrews is enjoying life with her friends and family in the picturesque beach town, Sea Glass Beach, but when a notorious local cooking celebrity is found dead and…
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We’ve had a perfectly modern city for years, and now, all of a sudden, there’s ancient things everywhere. A cute, cozy fantasy full of heart about Wisp, a goblin who grows up on the mean streets of Liston, a fantasy port town full of commerce, prospects and prejudice. Wisp does her best to scrape by…
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Ad/PR/Patrocinado. Many thanks to Boldwood Books and NetGalley for this ARC of A Season for Justice by John Pilkington, book 3 in the A Justice Belstrang Mystery trilogy. Publication date today, Aug 17, 2026. I’m Robert Belstrang, of Thirldon by Worcester: former justice, and in pursuit of the same. The year is 1618, and a…
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For Stacking The Shelves hosted by Reading Reality I’m posting the books I’ve added to my digital library this week, and the blurbs that made me download them in the first place. A Curse for Samhain by Dahlia Donovan From Amazon: Gender fluid, autistic vampire Hyde Snodgrass runs Between the Leaves—a cosy village book store.…
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‘Gran,’ Maddie hissed, though she couldn’t help but laugh too. ‘You can’t say that.’‘I’m eighty-two; I can say anything I like,’ Nor replied Book 1 in the Maddie Penrose series. Maddie Penrose is suffering from burnout in her demanding job as a chef in the fancy London restaurant, Chez Lucie. Meanwhile, her eighty-two-year-old grandmother Nor…
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It had taken weeks, and the first time she had Changed, it had been so blindingly painful that she’d vomited and passed out. Book 1 in The Infernal Devices series. Tessa moves from New York to London to join her brother Nathaniel, but instead finds herself plunged into a mysterious world of Shadowhunters, demons, vampires,…
