The Milkweed Lands offers a sweeping but detailed view of a plant that is synonymous with Monarch butterflies. To this Brit, anyway. Thanks to the publishers and Net-Galley, I discovered there’s a lot more to it than that. This is
Book Review | Extremophile: Violet Rain (Unwinding #2)
Extremophile is the second in the series called The Unwinding by Juliana Rew. The first one I read, Unwinding is subtitled Gin’s story. I didn’t realise it was a series at the time. A couple of months ago I discovered
Book Reviews | A Beautiful Friendship and Firstborn
I gathered A Beautiful Friendship and Firstborn together simply because they seem to be written for an early-teen audience, despite not really fitting their respective genres. The first was a book of the month for the Goodreads Space Opera Group.
Book Review | Influenced by Patricia Josephine
Influenced is another wonderful story from Patricia Josephine (writing with her YA author name). The words lower down on the cover ask ‘Can Dark Co-exist With Light?’ Influenced by Patricia Josephine Influencers are the voices that whisper in our ears.
Book Review | SkyKeep by Joseph R Lallo
SkyKeep is book 2 of the highly enjoyable steampunkish airship fantasy series by Joseph R Lallo. I may have got the first as a freebie, but I’m happy to purchase the rest of them. The standard is excellent. SkyKeep (Free-Wrench
Three Series Reviews | Raven’s Children | Code of Conduct | Half Life
In order to squeeze more reviews into my Saturdays, I’m combining three second in series today, although admittedly one is officially a first but with a prequel. Naturally they feature strongly in my Finishing the Series Reading Challenge! I read
Book Review | Death at the Asylum by N A Granger
Death at the Asylum is the fifth in the Rhe Brewster series by Noelle Granger, and every bit as good as the previous three. I seem to have missed Death in a Mudflat, which is mighty strange. Apologies, Noelle 🙂
Tschiffely’s Ride and other old books
Tschiffely’s Ride was the saga of a 1930s adventure recommended by Pat Smythe in her Three Jays series. Possibly the one where she talked about her own trip to South America. I read it at the library in my early
Book Review | Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
I earmarked Stand on Zanzibar as a reread for the Letter Z this year, That’s my Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge, of course. It’s an old book, written in the 1960s, and nominated several times for awards. I knew I’d read
Book Reviews | Time Quintet 4 and 5
The Time Quintet is the general series name for A Wrinkle in Time and its successors by Madeleine L’Engle. Published from 1962 through to the late 1980s, they were considered masterpieces of juvenile time-related fiction. They escaped me entirely. As
Book Reviews | Monk and Robot books 1 + 2
Monk and Robot is currently a duology of novella length books from Becky Chambers. The words Becky Chambers signal excellence in world-building, understand the human and non-human-psyche, and a lot more. I was going to put this series in my
Book Reviews | The Weather Weaver Trilogy (2 and 3)
I reviewed the Weather Weaver a couple of years ago, and loved it. I was quite surprised when a ‘third in series’ popped up on Netgalley in the spring, but applied for it. Thank you, Netgalley and the publishers, for
Book Review | The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
The Diamond Eye, by Kate Quinn is astonishingly good. You may remember me raving about The Rose Code. This is another to rave about. Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for the opportunity for an ARC. The Diamond Eye
Book Review | The Outskirter’s Secret (Steerswoman #2)
The Outskirter‘s Secret is the second book in the Steerswoman series, which took me completely by surprise when I read the first…two years ago? The Steerswoman had been lurking in my kindle for many years, and it looked promising but,
Book Review | Magic at Midnight
Magic at Midnight is a novella length fantasy from Ronel Janse Van Vuuren aka Ronel the Mythmaker. If you’ve read any of Ronel’s work, you’ll know she’s a master-storyteller. This is no exception. I loved it! Magic at Midnight by