fiction

  • Potion Sickness by Cleo Frost

    Ad/PR/Patrocinado. Many thanks to Cleo Frost for this ARC, book 2 in the Wardwell Witch Cozy Mysteries series. Potion Sickness releases today, Aug 31, 2026. If you’ve read book 1 in this series, Grimoires Gone Wild, you already know what to expect. If you haven’t, I’m here to tell you that Potion Sickness is an…

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  • Sunday Shelf Exploration

    In recognition of the fact that I have way too many ebooks just sitting around, doing whatever the digital equivalent to gathering dust on the shelf is, I’ve decided to introduce Sunday Shelf Exploration, which is what I plan to call it when I take a look at my ebook collection through a scavenger hunt,…

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  • Stacking The Shelves

    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. Royal Murder at the Empire Theatre by Auburn Seal From Freebooksy: What if Anastasia Romanov didn’t die with her family when they were…

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  • Heat cursed through my body as I touched the letter. I’d dubbed these warnings my witchfire wave, and it could only mean one thing. I’d received a summons from beyond the grave. Book 5 in the Willowmere series, but impressively easy to read and enjoy without any knowledge of the previous four books. Ghosts and…

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  • To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second-hand the delights and dangers of adventure. Book review of The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie, book 1 in the Tommy and Tuppence series. You’ve probably heard of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Agatha Christie’s two iconic sleuth characters. Tommy…

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  • We seemed to be confronted with a series of interlocking murders and mysteries spanning decades, if not centuries … Ad/PR/Patrocinado. Book review of Little House of Secrets by Christopher Seto, book 2 in the Notes on a Murder series, previously published under the title The Vanishing Stone. Theo Chan is somewhat traumatised by his first…

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  • “Ain’t no dwarfs or trolls or humans in the Watch, see,” said Colon. “Just Watchmen, see?” Book 15 in the Discworld universe, book 2 in the City Watch subseries. The City Watch is a job for real men. Or at least, that’s how it used to be. But now Lord Vetinari has declared that the…

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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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  • Stacking The Shelves

    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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