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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, Lesbian/FF, 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, Lesbian/FF, 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

Review: The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

Jul 16, 2020 | 1 comment

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel When Dr. JH Doyle returns from military service in Afghanistan, he finds himself at a loss. By rights, he shouldn’t even be alive after his run in with a member of the Fallen. Now, he has a...

FILED UNDER: 4.25 stars, Fantasy, Historical, Sue's Reviews
TAGGED: angel, asexual, Katherine Addison, private investigator, Tor Books, veteran

Review: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

Mar 17, 2020 | 5 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Linus Baker works for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth (DICOMY), charged with investigating orphanages where magical children live to make sure they are up to par. Linus takes his job...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Contemporary, Fantasy, Jay's Reviews
TAGGED: kids, magic, T.J. Klune, Tor Books

Review: Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly

Mar 23, 2017 | 1 comment

Rating: 4.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Following an undercover case gone wrong, the Foxhole sets Cyril up as the Master of the Hounds. The government may have given him a glorified desk job, but he still has to keep up to snuff on the...

FILED UNDER: 4.75 stars, Alternate World, Camille's Reviews, Historical
TAGGED: dystopian, Lara Elena Donnelly, spy, theater, thriller, Tor Books, wealthy character