Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
The Three Hares: Bloodline was gifted by the author via the Great Middle Grade Reads group. I apologise for the delay in reading it – it is first class! This is another post joining in Marvellous Middle Grade Mondays, run
Just Add Trouble is my second venture into the world of Hetta Coffey. Ten years after I first encountered her, in Just Add Salt, which is book two in the series. I’ve now added 1 through 5 to my TBR,
Ichor Well is book 3, and the Calderan Problem book 4, of the highly enjoyable steampunkish Free-Wrench series by Joseph R Lallo. So enjoyable, I started reading some of his other series. Ichor Well (Free-Wrench #3) Ever since Nita Graus
I’m not sure where I bought my copy of How to Read Water, but suspect it was while I was living next to a river. And not far from the sea. It made me nostalgic for both. How to Read
One Summer in Tuscany is excellent holiday reading with a light touch of romance. It’s by Domenica de Rosa, who I’ve met, and is one of my favourite authors. I reviewed Villa Serena a few years back and enjoyed that
Coraline was a gift from someone I worked with under rather tricky circumstances. She rated it… she was right. I’ve taken a leaf from Rebecca’s website to join in Marvellous Middle Grade Mondays, run by Greg Pattridge at Always in
The Life Impossible jumped out at me as I idly looked through netgalley, and I thank the publisher for the chance to read it. It’s the third Matt Haig book I’ve read, and he’s written loads more! It’ll take me
The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable is due out on August 15th. Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for the advance copy. I was fascinated by the description, and I wasn’t disappointed The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable Venice. 1704. In
Ghost Pirate Gambit is the start of a series by Jessie Kwak that I got from storybundle (along with several other very enjoyable scifi books). I think storybundle.com is an excellent source of fantasy, scifi and also other genres (including
Fire: Demons, Dragons and Djinns is the first in Rhonda Parrish’s Elemental Anthologies series, so naturally I read it last. You can tell how much I loved each one as I continued to buy the set. I’m now looking forward
Paris Adrift is probably the best time travel book I’ve read so far this decade. I don’t often say things like this, but it gripped me. I must check out the other time related books I got from Storybundle in
The Body In The Zero Gee Brothel is a novella (or ‘novelette’ according to the publisher) by Cameron Cooper, the first in a series of tales about a private law enforcer called Ptolemy Lane. I think I’d call it noir
I applied for an ARC of Environomics when I realised that it is already over 25 years since I studied environmental economics. It is also more than fifteen since I actually used any of it in my work. I’m very
Bringing Down Goliath is a tale of a legal nature–mainly how the law can be used by the small people to bring our governments to order. To act legally, in fact. I can’t remember exactly when I started to crowdfund
Rules of Conflict is book 2 in a series with a prequel, so it’s the third I’ve read and reviewed! As usual, my first task is to get to grips with who Jani Kilian is and what her world is