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…
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…
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally is the slightly fictionalized true story of Oskar Schindler. In the lead up to the Second World War he was an industrialist who managed to own an enamel factory where he was allowed to employ Jewish workers from the Kracow ghetto. At first he stayed concentrated on actually running a…
The Ragpicker King by Cassandra Clare is the second book in her new series, The Chronicles of Castellane. It picks up not long after the events of the previous book with Lin now having to undergo testing to prove to the other Ashkar that she is the Goddess returned, when even she doesn’t believe it.…
Disparate strings finally coming together as a story finally comes to a close. In The High King, the fifth and final book of the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander, we see the story that started all the way back in The Book of Three ending. Taran has just returned from his wandering adventure in the…
The Air Raid Book Club by Annie Lyons is sad but still heartwarming. In 1938 Gertie Bingham is mourning the loss of her husband and struggling to run their bookstore that no longer feels the same. Thinking about retiring Gertie ends up postponing when her longtime friend Charles convinces her to instead take in a…
This Girl’s A Killer by Emma C. Wells was a rather humorous tale of a female serial killer. Cecilia is a young woman trying to make her way in the world as a pharmaceutical salesman and also as a killer. She doesn’t like the term serial killer as she doesn’t kill indiscriminately and only kills…
We return to Mars with Green Mars, book two of the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Picking up about fifty years after the end of the previous book it opens with Nirgal, a young man who is a descendant of several of the first hundred and who is constantly pushing himself forward. As he…
Today’s book is, sadly, the end of a series, but not necessarily the end of the story. Naturally, I am talking about The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan, the final book in The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. With it being the final book we also get to see the culmination of the war…
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 Draconic Bibliophile
