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Review: Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell

Jan 5, 2023 | 2 comments

Rating: 4.75 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Tennalhin Halkana has always pushed the boundaries, laying on his charm when needed, or just barreling through when that fails. He also has destructive tendencies that he turns mostly on...

FILED UNDER: 4.75 stars, Futuristic/Science Fiction, Jay's Reviews
TAGGED: Everina Maxwell, military, opposites attract, psychic, Tor Books, Winter's Orbit series

Review: A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

Nov 1, 2022 | 1 comment

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Maud Blyth is aboard the R.M.S. Lyric, traveling from New York to England. She is posing as a companion to an elderly woman making the trans-Atlantic voyage. In reality, Mrs. Navenby is a...

FILED UNDER: 4.5 stars, Historical, Jay's Reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: bisexual, Freya Marske, magic, medium, murder, mystery, The Last Binding series, Tor Books, virgin

Review: High Times in the Low Parliament by Kelly Robson

Aug 9, 2022 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Lana Baker is a rake, a charmer, and the best scrabble in Aldgate, London. She’s just not the cleverest, easily caught out when a pretty girl with a pretty mouth pleads with her to both write...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Elizabeth's reviews, Fantasy
TAGGED: drugs, Kelly Robson, Tor Books

Review: A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

Nov 3, 2021 | 5 comments

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel It is Robin Blyth’s first day on a new job, stuck in a bureaucratic position he doesn’t really understand in an out-of-the-way office. When Edwin Courcey shows up at his door,...

FILED UNDER: 4.5 stars, Historical, Jay's Reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: Freya Marske, magic, murder, mystery, The Last Binding series, Tor Books

Review: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Sep 28, 2021 | 1 comment

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel When she made a deal with a demon—harvest seven souls for Hell in order to save her own and win back her music—famed violinist Shizuka Satomi thought it would be a simple matter. After all, the...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Camille's Reviews, Contemporary, Fantasy, Futuristic/Science Fiction
TAGGED: alien, BIPOC, magic, musician, Ryka Aoi, sex work, sexual assault, slow burn, Tor Books, transgender

Review: Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

Sep 21, 2021 | 4 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Wallace Price is dead. And frankly, he’s pretty pissed off about that. Worse yet, no one seems to care that he’s dead. Instead of a packed turnout for Wallace’s funeral, only a handful of...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Paranormal, Sue's Reviews, Young Adult
TAGGED: afterlife, grief/loss, suicide, T.J. Klune, Tor Books

Review: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Jul 20, 2021 | 2 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel She has never not known hunger. At ten years old, she has known great suffering as her mother, grandparents, and all but one of her siblings have died. The world is feeling the bite of famine...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Elizabeth's reviews, Historical
TAGGED: BIPOC, military, Radiant Emperor series, Shelley Parker-Chan, Tor Books

Review: Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell

Feb 3, 2021 | 3 comments

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Even as one of the lesser royals of the Iskat Empire, Kiem knows his duty. With an important treaty on the line, a marriage alliance must be made between Iskat and Thea, one of its vassal...

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, Futuristic/Science Fiction, Jay's Reviews
TAGGED: arranged marriage, domestic abuse, Everina Maxwell, royalty, Tor Books, widow/widower, Winter's Orbit series