And it turns out just not posting anything does not make the list of books I mean to write about shorter. Who would have thought?

Fantasy

Sam Hawke - The Hollow Empire

The sequel to City of Lies where I liked the very high-stakes murder mystery a lot and had no strong feelings about the characters. The sequel is less murder mystery and more ( Read more... )

I can also give a short bookish update. I haven't read too much since last time but my fingers have informed me that they want all the blood to dry before I do more stitching [slight exaggeration for comic effect].

In a shocking turn of events, I have read only one whole posh murder book:

The Detection Club - Ask A Policeman

The Detection Club is/ ( Read more... )

Slightly.

KJ Charles

Flight of Magpies

Despite enjoying the Magpie-books I took my time with reading them and I have eventually figured out why: I enjoy the stories themselves, I enjoy the side-characters, I enjoy Stephen and I enjoy Lucien and I enjoy their relationship...in the sense of I enjoy their bickering with each other. As soon as they are ( Read more... )

Well, not all of those but this entry featured a couple of books I started with not very high hopes and then ended up enjoying...well and a couple I hated so it's not quite a sign of the end-times.

Fantasy

Aliette de Bodard: Of Dragons, Feasts and Murder

The major nobody-is-more-surprised book. It's set in the Dominion of the Fallen universe where ( Read more... )

Somewhen. But considering the new job starts tomorrow who knows when I'll have time to read and write about what I read again. (OK, the former probably on my commute. The latter...shrug-emoji). So let's get the backlog out of the way.

Agatha Christie's idiot spies aka the Tommy & Tuppence Books

The series is less popular than her others, possibly ( Read more... )

Let's not look back at my reading resolution for 2019. (But to be fair it was "read more books from my physical tbr-pile and I ended up in a different place from it for a considerable amount of time).

This year I picked out some concrete books and for half of them the reason is "They were presents and some of those have been lying round here for 3 ( Read more... )

After investigating the matter thoroughly I discovered that putting off doing an entry on my read crime novels isn't going to decrease the number of books I'll have to write about. But I think it's in everyone's interest to not do the write-up quite as in-depth as usually and instead sum up things a bit, especially if my opinion boils down to "I ( Read more... )

After the fantasy entry the...romance and romance-adjacent entry

KJ Charles - Gilded Cage

How on brand is it that the first romance I'm talking about features a murder? As with some KJ books I found that there was not enough space for both plotlines. There was the romance-part about a couple who had badly messed up the first time (as in the dude ( Read more... )

Since I have read a lot since the last time I'll split by genre. Part one: Fantasy

Sam Hawke - City of LiesThis was sold to me as 'Agatha Christie channeled through Robin Hood' so it will surprise exactly no one that I picked it up and well...dissapointment is too strong a word but it wasn't quite what I had hoped for and not only because I want ( Read more... )

Romance

Nancy Campbell Allen - The Lady in the Coppergate TowerA steampunk het romance about Hazel - a doctor's assistant who is in love with said doctor - and said doctor who is in love with Hazel. However, both are convinced that they have no chance with the other and so...have moved on? Ish. Like, with that set-up I expect pining and can also ( Read more... )