The K’Barthan Extras are a series of novella-length stories featuring the Pan of Hamgee – the star of M T McGuire’s funny, fantastic, thrilling fantasy/scifi series. I reviewed the first two in January. These are just as good. Close Enough
Book Review | Kiwi and the Serpent of the Isle
Serpent of the Isle is book 4 in the Kiwi series. I started out to read book 3 Kiwi and the Living Nightmare. Only when I’d finished, and thought the blurb sounded nothing like what I’d read, I investigated further.
Book Review | The Last Word by Elly Griffiths
The Last Word is Elly Griffiths’ latest crime novel. Listed as a standalone, it reprises characters from the first Harbinder Kaur novel, the Postscript Murders, and Harbinder also appears in this one. I wish Elly would stop using ‘The Last…’
Book Review | Queen of Chaos (Sequoyah #3)
Queen of Chaos by Sabrina Chase is the third and last in the Sequoyah trilogy. I thoroughly enjoyed the first, and left rather too long a gap before reading book 2 last year. Thus I planned to read this early
Book Review | What If? Serious Scientific Answers …
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is a book I picked up at Waterstones in Norwich several years ago now. I did look in it a couple of times when I was considering the use of vacuum
Book Review | Water: Sirens, Selkies and Sea Monsters
Water: Selkies, Sirens and Sea Monsters is the last of four anthologies edited by Rhonda Parrish in the Elemental Anthologies series. My story was shortlisted for the Earth one, so I wanted to read more… Water: Selkies, Sirens and Sea
Book Review | The Last Murder at the End of the World
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton is out at the end of next month. Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for the chance of a review copy. Netgalley gives the publication date as
Book Review | The Firestone by Francesca Tyer
The Firestone is the first in at least a three book series by Francesca Tyer. These are marketed as young adult fantasy, although I think they read as middle grade, with an older target audience. Francesca also sells her books
Book Review | K’Barthan Extras #1+2
The K’Barthan Extras are a series of novella-length stories featuring the Pan of Hamgee – the star of M T McGuire’s funny, fantastic, thrilling fantasy/scifi series. It’s been a while since I reviewed the full length books. Those start with
Book Review | The Queen of Poisons
The Queen of Poisons sounded like a good read, so I requested an ARC from Netgalley and the publishers. Besides, it gives me a Q for my Alphabet Soup Challenge for 2024. If only there were more U, V, X,
Book Review | Relight My Fire by C K McDonnell
Relight My Fire continues the great series based around a weird newspaper called The Stranger Times. I’m very grateful to the publishers and Netgalley for an ARC. The book is due to be published later this month (Jan 24th). Relight
Best Book of the Year 2023
So this is it. Of nearly seventy fiction and non-fiction titles I’ve read this year, which is the best book? Which ones will I be recommending, or have I been recommending, at my Craft Fair stall? Given that I’m still
Book Review | Loot by Tania James
Loot by Tania James came to me as an ARC from netgalley and the publishers. I thank all the publishers who have sent me copies this year – there have been a lot of them and I’ve mostly enjoyed them.
Book Review | Juicy Ghosts by Rudy Rucker
Juicy Ghosts has been sitting on my Kindle for about eighteen months, and I’d earmarked it for this year’s J in the Alphabet Soup Challenge. A nice weird conclusion, really! I got it in a storybundle and then got some
Book Review | Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Untamed Shore came to me in a Storybundle. I usually get scifi or fantasy, and sometimes expand my mind a little by getting collections from international authors. So when I started reading this book, I was expecting something like Mexican