I honestly am not quite sure what to make of this book. The Bookshop Below is by Georgia Summers and tells the story of Cassandra. She is a former thief who is currently in hiding and staying low as she was involved in something that went wrong a few months ago as well as having…
The Atlantis Gene by A. G. Riddle is the first book in the series The Origin Mystery. Kate Warner is a geneticist working on potential genetic treatments for Autism and she is currently working on a long-term study in Jakarta when she finally sees potential improvement. Almost immediately her study is interrupted when her research…
Sherlock Holmes & Mr. Hyde by Christian Klaver is the second book in his Classified Dossier series. Having become convinced of the existence of potentially supernatural occurrences after their adventure with Dracula, Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson are more open minded when they are confronted by the resurgence of the continually unsolved case of Jack…
Thirteenth Child is the first book in Patricia C. Wrede’s Frontier Magic trilogy and opens the story of young Eff Rothmer. Eff is in a bit of a peculiar pickle as her younger twin brother, Lan, is a seventh son of a seventh son while Eff is the seventh daughter. This might not mean much…
If you want a book that is really going to make you think about what constitutes a story then you should probably consider reading Ulysses by James Joyce. It tells the story of one day in the lives of a few different people in Dublin in 1904. Stephen Dedalus is a young writer who is…
The Ten Thousand Doors of January is by Alix E. Harrow and tells the story of January Scaller. She is a rather lonely young woman who is the ward of the rather wealthy Mr. Locke. Her father works for Mr. Locke by traveling around the world in search of rare and unusual historical objects to…
The Chronicles of Ynis Aielle by R. A. Salvatore ends with the third and final book, Bastion of Darkness. In the aftermath of the war against Thalasi, Rhiannon and Bryan are working to find and eliminate as many of the talons as possible. However, Rhiannon is now also dealing with a continuing weakness due to…
The Poppy War is the first book in The Poppy War series by R. F. Kuang and starts the story of Rin, a war orphan from an extremely rural and poor province of the Nikara Empire who aces the Keju, an empire wide assessment, and earns a place at Sinegard. Entering the military academy she…
This list was interesting to pull together because I wasn’t entirely sure I was going to do it but it ended up coming together fairly easily. Facing your past or confronting your past is something that most people have to do at some point in their lives, though I will admit that very few of…
The Draconic Bibliophile
