The Draconic Bibliophile

  • Review of “The Rose Code”

    The Rose Code by Kate Quinn was simply incredible. The story opens in 1947 days before Princess Elizabeth is set to marry Prince Phillip, Osla Kendall is the former girlfriend of Phillip who now works as a columnist for Tatler. As she is preparing herself for attending the wedding she receives an unusual letter written…

  • Review of “Angelhunting”

    Angelhunting by Ji Hong Sayo is the first book in the new Seamus Caron Mystery series. Seamus is a private detective in Toronto where he primarily works on finding wandering husbands and lost money though he occasionally consults with his best friend, Sandra Blair, who is a homicide detective with the Toronto Police department. When…

  • Review of “A Letter From the Lonesome Shore”

    A Letter From the Lonesome Shore is the second and final book in The Sunken Archive by Sylvie Cathrall. It continues the dual timeline stories from the previous book. E. and Henerey are now in an unknown place where they meet the thirtieth second scholar and the fifteenth first scholar. They explain that E. and…

  • Review of “Exposure”

    Have you ever felt like just when you think you have everything figured out the rules start changing on you? In Exposure, book four of the Virals series by Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs, I am fairly sure that was exactly how Tory Brennan and her friends felt. While dealing with the court trial against…

  • Review of “The Runaway Jury”

    The Runaway Jury is a legal thriller by noted author John Grisham. It takes place in Biloxi, Mississippi where a widow, backed by a rather powerful cadre of lawyers, has recently filed suit against a tobacco company claiming their cigarettes killed her husband by giving him lung cancer. While not necessarily an unusual lawsuit there…

  • Review of “The Last Illusion of Paige White”

    The Last Illusion of Paige White by Vanessa McCausland is a book that makes you wonder. Paige White is a young woman and mother who has managed to earn a living as an online influencer, specifically on Instagram, but who is having some marriage struggles. One day a mysterious image of her looking almost dead…

  • Review of “Empery”

    Empery is the third and final book in The Trigon Disunity series by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. It picks up quite some time after the previous book Enigma and focuses on the aftermath of Merritt Thackery and his discovery of the Mizari sterilizer. The new galactic Empire is continuing its expansion even as certain members of…

  • Review of “The Borrowers Afloat”

    The Borrowers Afloat is the third book in The Borrowers series by Mary Norton and continues the adventures of the Clock family. Having been rescued from the gypsies by Spiller and Tom they are now residing with their cousins, the Hendrearys. While they are happy to be living in a relatively safe place and to…

  • 3 Books About Fictional Female Serial Killers

    Time for another one of my monthly lists and this time I decided to be extremely specific with my list so my criteria was pretty exacting. As you may have gathered from the title the books had to be about fictional female serial killers which is not necessarily an extremely common theme in fiction. The…

  • Review of “We The People”

    We The People by Russell Razzaque and T. J. MacGregor is a book about democracy and patriotism and doing the right thing. Luna Ochoa is a former government analyst who was fired when the new president took office. Now she works for Leo Montoya who is a reclusive billionaire who funds AI development and seems…