My Broken Heart is Dead by Kane Jesse Howard is a bit of an odd book. Lynn is an aging landlord, a not very nice one at that, and is working on a few issues with her various properties when she has a heart attack and dies. Instead of staying dead she wakes up months…
The House of Gucci by Sara Gay Forden chronicles the rise and fall of the Gucci family. It opens with Guccio Gucci and his small business, a leather goods shop, first started in 1921. Focusing on the family it moves forward and discusses how it almost all fell apart due to bankruptcy and again during…
Fatal Voyage is the fourth Temperance Brennan novel by Kathy Reichs. This one starts a bit differently with Brennan getting pulled in to help when a plane crashes in remote woods of the region she works in. One of the first on the scene she rapidly connects with the local sheriff and starts cataloguing the…
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers is a startlingly realistic novel of the Vietnam War. It tells the story of Richie Perry, a young seventeen-year-old from Harlem who is unable to afford college. Thinking he needs to find an alternative he volunteers for the army where is sent to Vietnam. While there he finds himself…
The Crystal Cave is the first book in The Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart and tells the origins of Merlin. It starts when he is still a child known as Myrddin Emrys living with his mother, Niniane, in Maridunum. Though his mother is a princess and he is noble born Merlin is also a bastard…
The Starless Crown is the first book in the Moonfall series by James Rollins. Nyx is a young blind girl working her way through the tiers at her local school when she finds herself confronted by a bully before narrowly escaping an attack by myr bats that leaves the bully dead and her cured of…
Warbound is the third and final book in The Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia. It opens a few months after the end of the previous book, Spellbound, with Faye now in Europe trying to find the Grimnoir elder that had trained Whisper in hopes of learning more about her unusual abilities. At the same time…
Magyk by Angie Sage is the first book in the Septimus Heap series. The book opens with Silas Heap heading home to help his wife take care of their newborn seventh son, Septimus, only to find a baby girl abandoned in the snow on the way. After he picks the girl up Marcia Overstrand, the…
I recently posted a list of books that are about unusual libraries and it got me thinking about books that take place in unusual bookshops so that is what this list is about. Books that are based around bookshops that are either unusual in and of themselves or bookshops where unusual things happen. Here is…
The Midnight Bookshop by Amanda James is definitely one of the more unusual books I have read recently. It starts with an unusual flyer that catches the attention of three individuals and strangers, Adelaide, Jo, and Kye. The flyer is for a nearby store called the Midnight Bookshop. Jo struggles to actually find the store…
The Draconic Bibliophile
