Even having finished this one I am still a little unsure what to think of it. The 7 ½ deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton is about a man named Aiden Bishop and his rather unusual quest to identify the killer of Evelyn Hardcastle. At a remote country manor the Hardcastle family is holding…
Heavenly Demonic is the first book in the Heavenly Demonic series by Nemu Sai. Haise is a young man who is perpetually behind others his age in terms of qi cultivation and talent though he is outstanding at using his qi through his music. When he is attacked while on a walk one day he…
This month’s list is a rather interesting one, in my opinion anyway. I have often been intrigued by the concept of a double seventh son, that is a seventh son of a seventh son, and the supposed mystical or magical abilities they are believed to possess. As such when I come across the concept in…
Time to finish the colonization of Mars with Blue Mars, the third and final book in the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Picking up shortly after the end of Green Mars we see them navigating the aftermath of the successful revolution. Ann is trying to figure out what it means to still be a…
The Accused is book three of the Theodore Boone series by John Grisham and continues the adventures of young Theo. As the city of Strattenburg prepares for the retrial of the murder case from the first book Theo seems to be having a run of bad luck. Every time he turns around the tire on…
Deacon King Kong by James McBride is a story about a man named Sportcoat. That is not his real name but that is the only name people actually know him by. Sportcoat is a mostly harmless old man who lives in a project known as the Cause Houses in 1969. He is a drunk who…
The Dinosaur Artist by Paige Williams tells the rather interesting true story of Eric Prokopi and the T. bataar skeleton that he tried to sell. T. bataar is a dinosaur who is a cousin of T. rex and is seemingly only found in the Gobi desert, more specifically in the part that is currently in…
We return to the story of Merlin with The Hollow Hills which is book two in Mary Stewart‘s Arthurian Saga. It picks up directly after the end of the previous book with Merlin handling the immediate aftermath of helping Uther sneak into Tintagel. With Gorlois dead Uther is faced with immense guilt which pushes him…
Smoke and Iron is the fourth book in the Great Library series by Rachel Caine and with it we see the continuation of the open rebellion. Jess is posing as his brother Brendan in Alexandria in an attempt to gain intel from the Archivist Magister and the library in general. Meanwhile, Morgan is back in…
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…
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