This week as promised, it's a return to fantasy with Sarah A. Parker's When the Moon Hatched. When I last wrote, I mentioned I had made a brief return to fantasy, which I would soon review. However, if you're here for a lashing based on my frustrations I shared last week, you won't find it. Despite my frustrations with the fantasy genre as a whole, especially trends that were still present in this book, overall I was pleasantly surprised, and impressed, with Parker's latest novel. I ...
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The Case of the Missing Hero
Let's take a break this week because I want to share something rather epiphanous, at least for me. Though I may have shared some of these thoughts before, I’m not certain I divulged them with the same clarity. Recently, I tried a return to fantasy as I stumbled upon what appeared to be a next great hit of a series full of wonder and adventure and maybe even a little bit of romance. Of course, I'll review that book soon here, but something struck me as I dived deep into its pages and ...
WOMS: What the River Knows
This week for "What's on My Shelf," we've got a banger of a mystery full of betrayal and misdeeds and my all-time favourite: mummies! It's Isabel Ibanez's What the River Knows! In What the River Knows, you meet Inez Oliviera, a young woman from a wealthy, upper class family in nineteenth century Argentina, who learns of her parents disappearance to the hot and unforgiving Egyptian desert. Determined to uncover the truth, she sets out from Buenos Aires for Cairo with nothing but her ...
WOMS: Saffron Everleigh Mysteries
I have discovered a new, delightful heroine, and it's time I introduced her: everyone, meet Saffron Everleigh! She's a spunky, witty botanist working as a research assistant at the University College in London in the 1920s where she suddenly finds herself mixed up in a murder scheme when the wife of a professor drops dead at a dinner party. Though at first she might seem like the awkward, bookish type, she quickly finds her footing in the throes of the chase as she first tries to acquit her ...
WOMS: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
If all books about the fae were more like Emily Wilde's adventures, I might read more stories about them. Emily and Bambleby are back in this second installment, Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands, of Heather Fawcett's series reminiscent of Marie Brennan's Lady Trent series, just with excursions to discover and research the fae in their natural habitats, not dragons. Perhaps that is what I love most about this series, though I'm sure I already shared the same sentiments in my previous ...
