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Review: The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

Series: The Thursday Murder Club #2 Published by: Penguin ISBN: 0241425425 ISBN 13: 9780241425428 Published: September 2021 Pages: 427 Format reviewed: eVersion from NetGalley Site: Author’s Twitter Goodreads: Book Page Stars: Five out of Five Lists: Recommended Related Reviews: The Thursday Murder Club I haven’t done any reviewing this year. This was by choice – finish up all outstanding reviews…

Review: Chaos on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer

Series: CatNet #2Published by: Macmillan-Tor/ForgeISBN: 1250165229ISBN 13: 9781250165220Published: April 2021Pages: 304Format reviewed: eVersion from NetGalleySite: Author SiteGoodreads: Book PageStars: Five out of FiveLists: Favourites and RecommendedRelated Reviews: Catfishing on CatNet (#1 CatNet) I begged for there to be a second book after reading Catfishing on CatNet and my dreams were…

Review: Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell

Published by:  Macmillan-Tor/Forge ISBN: 1250758831 ISBN 13: 9781250758835 Published: February 2021 Pages: 432 Format reviewed: eVersion from NetGalley Site: Author Site Goodreads: Book Page Stars: Four out of Five Lists: Favourites and Recommended Originally published on Ao3 under the title Course of Honour, I read this in that format first. The two versions are fairly close, but the world…

Review: Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell

Published by:  Macmillan-Tor/Forge ISBN: 1250758831 ISBN 13: 9781250758835 Published: February 2021 Pages: 432 Format reviewed: eVersion from NetGalley Site: Author Site Goodreads: Book Page Stars: Four out of Five Lists: Favourites and Recommended Originally published on Ao3 under the title Course of Honour, I read this in that format first. The two versions are fairly close, but the world…

Review: Hollow Empire by Sam Hawke

Series: Poison Wars #2Published by: Tor BooksISBN: 0765396947ISBN 13: 9780765396945Published: November 2020Pages: 560Format reviewed: eVersion from NetGalleySite: Author SiteGoodreads: Book PageStars: Five out of FiveLists: Favourites and RecommendedRelated Reviews: City of Lies (Poison Wars #1) This has easily been my most anticipated book of 2020. And yes, that’s with more Murderbot and Empire…

Review: Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee

Published by: Solaris ISBN: 1781087946 ISBN 13: 9781781087947 Published: October 2020 Pages: 416 Format reviewed: eVersion from NetGalley Site: Author Site Goodreads: Book Page Stars: Five out of Five Lists: Favourites and Recommended

Gyen Jebi lives in a country that lost a war and has been colonised by the winners six years previous. Because of this, there are careful decisions to be made about names,…

Review: The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk

Published by: Erewhon ISBN: 1645660079 ISBN 13: 9781645660071 Published: October 2020 Pages: 384 Format reviewed: eVersion from NetGalley Site: Author Site Goodreads: Book Page Stars: Five out of Five Lists: Favourites and Recommended

In a world where women are prized for their magical ability but only for what they will therefore bestow on any children they may have, Beatrice refuses to do well during…

Review: Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

Published by: Grove Press ISBN: 1448130735 ISBN 13: 9781448130733 Published: August 2020 Pages: 272 pages Format reviewed: eVersion from Edelweiss Site: Author’s twitter Goodreads: Book Page Stars: Five out of Five Lists: Favourites and Recommended

I’m late in writing this review. I should have started so much earlier, but I’ve been drowning in my embarrassingly light review pile, even though covid isn’t…

Review: Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar

Published by: HarperTeen ISBN: 0062894625 ISBN 13: 9780062894625 Published: August 2020 Pages: 448 Format reviewed: eVersion from Edelweiss Site: Author Site Goodreads: Book Page Stars: Three out of Five

Sheetal is almost 17 years’ old. She should be worrying about how to sneak a kiss with a very cute boy, Dev, who sings exactly like a famous Bollywood star (but of course she can’t date until she’s 35…

Review: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

Published by: Penguin ISBN: 0241425441 ISBN 13: 9780241425442 Published: October 2020 Pages: 336 Format reviewed: eVersion from NetGalley Site: Author’s Twitter Goodreads: Book Page Stars: Five out of Five Lists: Recommended

In the book community we often talk about trying to find books that do something a bit different – sometimes it seems that in order to save the world you have to be between 15-25…

Review: Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings

Published by: Macmillan-Tor/Forge ASIN: B07X18T2SM ISBN: 1250260493 ISBN 13: 9781250260499 Published: July 2020 Pages: 176 Format reviewed: eVersion from NetGalley Site: Author Site Goodreads: Book Page Stars: Four out of Five Lists: Recommended

This is one of those books that I want to give two scores – four out of five (or four and a half perhaps) for the book’s style and what it reaches for. Three stars…

Review: Seven Devils by Laura Lam and Elizabeth May

Series: Seven Devils #1 Published by: Gollancz ISBN: 1473225140 ISBN 13: 9781473225145 Published: August 2020 Pages: 448 Format reviewed: eVersion from NetGalley Site: Laura Lam’s Site Site: Elizabeth May’s Site Goodreads: Book Page Stars: Five out of Five Lists: Favourites and Recommended

Imagine you worked for the Resistance (Star Wars style), only instead of fighting against various men with mummy issues…

Review: A Dance With Fate by Juliet Marillier

Series: Warrior Bards #2 Published by: Macmillan Australia ISBN: 1760784222 ISBN 13: 9781760784225 Published: July 2020 Format reviewed: eVersion from NetGalley Site: Author Site Goodreads: Book Page Stars: Five out of Five Lists: Favourites and Recommended

Set a few seasons after the ending of the first in the series we return to our main characters – Liobhan and Dau who have returned to Swan Island, and…

Review: Black Spire by Delilah S. Dawson

Series: Galaxy’s Edge #2 Published by: Arrow (Random House UK, Cornerstone) ISBN 13: 9781787462410 Published: July 2020 Pages: 380 Format reviewed: eVersion from NetGalley Site: Author Site Goodreads: Book Page Stars: Four out of Five

I came to this one not realising it was the second in a series but read it anyway, seeing that it apparently stands alone and wanting to test that. I would agree. It hints…

Review: A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H. G. Parry

Published by: Orbit ISBN: 0316459089 ISBN 13: 9780316459082 Published: June 2020 Pages: 544 Format reviewed: eVersion from NetGalley Site: Author Site Goodreads: Book Page Stars: Four out of Five

What would the era of the French Revolution have been like if magic had been a factor, and not only that, but with laws that state commoners cannot use their own magic unless it is purely in self-defence (not…

Review: The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

Published by: Tor Books ISBN: 0765387417 ISBN 13: 9780765387417 Published: June 2020 Pages: 432 Format reviewed: eVersion from NetGalley Site: Author Site Goodreads: Book Page Stars: Five out of Five Lists: Favourites and Recommended

The blurb for this book states: ‘This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting.’ I would…

Review: The Unconquered City by K.A. Doore

Series: Chronicles of Ghadid, #3 Published by: Tor Books ISBN: 0765398591 ISBN 13: 9780765398598 Published: June 2020 Pages: 400 Format reviewed: eVersion from NetGalley Site: Author Site Goodreads: Book Page Stars: Five out of Five Lists: Favourites and Recommended Related Reviews: The Perfect Assassin (Chronicles of Ghadid, #1) | The Impossible Contract (Chronicles of Ghadid, #2)

Seven years have passed…