The Monsters We Defy

This was an impulse grab from the library a week or so ago, and, after finishing it, I am thrilled by that decision. The cover is really eye-catching and after skimming the synopsis, it just felt like it would be different from anything I had really read before...which turned out to be absolutely true. Plus, I…

Alif the Unseen

This is a backlist book that I have had on my TBR longer than almost any other. And every once in a while I'd remember it and be like "I should get that from the library!" and then get distracted by a shiny new release... But I found a copy of this at a local bookstore…

Tensorate Series

This is the most recent iteration of the "read out loud together before bed" tradition that my partner and I began a few years ago and have been surprisingly consistent with (His Dark Materials, The Witcher, and a few others...). This is the first time we have read something totally new to us both that also…

Nona the Ninth

Ever since Gideon the Ninth was published with the description "sapphic necromancers in space," I have been hardcore sold on this series. It didn't hurt that Gideon was also great. And then Harrow the Ninth, which...I've never in my life been more lost while reading a book, and yet I loved it too? So of course I bought Nona as soon as…

Silver Under Nightfall

The publisher reached out to me about this one, to see if I'd be interested in a NetGalley eARC. While I actually normally do not say yes to too many of those offers, mainly because my NetGalley feedback percentage is already abysmal, and I have so many other things I want to read that I'm usually…

King of Battle and Blood

So, I read A Touch of Darkness (in one sitting) on Xmas Day, as I was (happily) home alone and relaxing. It was exactly what I wanted it to be. And I was in the mood for more like it as New Year's Day approached. However, I also had been good with where that one finished and…

The Ballad of Perilous Graves

The book was nowhere on my radar until it was an ALC option from Libro.fm. And really I haven't seen too many reviews for it around, so I am not sure it was (is) really on many other people's radars either. Regardless, the mood reader in me decided on this one over the Winter Holiday…

A Touch of Darkness

This cold dark winter, heavy interact-with-other-people, Holiday time of year always makes me want to pick up this sort of book: a quick, fast, steamy, magical romance. This is around when I started the “Psy-Changeling” series last year, and I wanted something like that again (though potentially much less of a commitment than that 15-book…

A Dowry of Blood

Although I have been on hold for this one at the library since early October (ish), there was definitely some kind of delay in the process because our copy didn’t arrive/get processed til mid-December. And despite the fact that we are now deeply past the “spooky” season this read was meant to be for, I…

From Bad to Cursed

I read Payback’s a Witch, the first book in the Witches of Thistle Grove romance series, last year right around this time. And honestly, I loved it. So much fun. So much magic. So much bisexual lady love and a solid side of joined-together-in-righteous-vengeance female power. So, this next one has been on my “ready…