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  • April 28, 2025

    Rapid Fire Reviews

    Once again, it’s time for some rapid fire reviews! Because sometimes you don’t always have a ton to say (regardless of whether or not you liked a book). Welcome to the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty’s most luxurious interstellar passenger liner! Room and board are included, new bodies are graciously provided upon request, and should you Continue reading

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    Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, Divine Might, Murder by Memory, Natalie Haynes, Olivia Waite, Patrick Horvath, rapid fire reviews, Transmogrify
  • April 25, 2025

    Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

    Book review Going home is always hard. For Vera, going home means returning to the notorious Crowder House where her serial killer father murdered his victims and buried their bodies beneath. Then notes start to appear in Vera’s father’s handwriting – but they can’t be from him. He has been dead for years. Vera thought Continue reading

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    Just Like Home, Sarah Gailey
  • April 23, 2025

    Paladin’s Strength by T. Kingfisher

    Book review He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a secretive order, on the trail of the raiders who burned her convent and kidnapped her sisters. When their paths cross at the point of a sword, Istvhan and Clara will be pitched headlong into Continue reading

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    Paladin’s Strength, saints of steel, T. Kingfisher
  • April 21, 2025

    Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin

    Book review During a grocery run to her local shopping center, Shell Pine sees a ‘HELP NEEDED’ sign in a flower shop window. She’s just left her fiancé, lost her job, and moved home to her parents’ house. She has to make a change and bring some good into her life, so she goes inside Continue reading

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    Book Review, Eat the Ones You Love, Sarah Maria Griffin
  • April 19, 2025

    Books I’ve Preordered during Waterstones Double Points Weekend

    If you’re in the UK, you probably know all about Waterstones’ double points weekends, which they run a few times during the year. This Easter weekend is one such instance and I’ve loaded up on preorders for 2025! I don’t often preorder books these days, as books have become more and more expensive, however books Continue reading

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    Fiction, preorders
  • April 9, 2025

    My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen

    Book review Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth-strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries-is the light of Roos’ life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos’ backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection. Soon, Roos is whisked away to the crumbling estate Agnes Continue reading

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    Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
  • April 8, 2025

    Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman

    Book review Noah Fairchild has been losing his formerly polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for years, so when his mother leaves him a voicemail warning him that the “Great Reckoning” is here, he assumes it’s related to one of the many conspiracy theories she believes in. But when his own phone calls go Continue reading

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    Clay McLeod Chapman, Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
  • April 7, 2025

    The Notorious Virtues by Alwyn Hamilton

    Book review At sixteen, Honora ‘Nora’ Holtzfall is the daughter of the most powerful heiress in Gamanix; her family controls all the money – and all the magic – in the entire country. But when her mother is found murdered in an alley, the family throne and fortune are up for grabs, which means Nora Continue reading

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    Alwyn Hamilton, The Notorious Virtues
  • April 4, 2025

    Paladin’s Grace by T. Kingfisher

    Book review Whilst foraging for startleflower, perfumer Grace finds herself pursued by ruffians and rescued by a handsome paladin in shining armour. Only, to outwit her hunters they must pretend to be doing something very unrespectable in an alleyway. Stephen, a broken paladin, spends his time knitting socks and working as a bodyguard, living only for Continue reading

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    Paladin’s grace, saints of steel, t kingfisher
  • April 3, 2025

    Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

    Book review A cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own noodle shop, from acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz. You don’t have to eat food to know the way to a city’s heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned Continue reading

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    annalee newitz, Automatic noodle
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Welcome to my corner of the bookish internet. I’m an American who has lived in the UK for almost 10 years, a publishing professional, and lifelong lover of books. I make it my mission to shout about books all over the internet and share my enthusiasm with other readers. I read a little bit of everything, but my main genres of choice are horror, fantasy, and science fiction.

I aim to start conversations about books and reading, link readers to new authors and titles they’ll love, provide insightful review the books I’m reading, and discover new writers and subgenres on this blog.

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