Published: February 2023 Pages: 483 Series: Amina al-Sirafi #1 Summary Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, she’s survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood,…
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Book Review! The Silverblood Promise – James Logan
Published: April 2024 Pages: 528 Series: The Last Legacy #1 Summary Lukan Gardova is a cardsharp, academy dropout, and―thanks to a duel that ended badly―the disgraced heir to an ancient noble house. His days consist of cheap wine, rigged card games, and wondering how he might win back the life he threw away. When Lukan…
Book Review! Obsidio – Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman
Published: March 2018 Pages: 618 Series: Illuminae Files #3 Summary Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to…
Book Review! Vicious – V.E Schwab
Published: September 2013 Pages: 402 Series: Villains #1 Summary Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions,…
Book Review! Winter’s Fury – A.E. Rayne
Published: July 2017 Pages: 738 Series: Furyck Saga #1 Summary Despite her skill with a sword, her prowess in battle, and her reputation as the greatest warrior in Brekka, without her father to protect her, Jael was merely a pawn, a woman to be married off so her uncle could forge an alliance to fulfil…
Book Review! Murder on the Lamplight Express – Morgan Stang
Published: August 2023 Pages: 298 Series: The Lamplight Murder Mysteries #2 Summary The orders given to Isabeau Agarwal and her partner are simple: ensure the safety of all passengers and crew until point of destination. But on the maiden voyage of this luxury train, nothing is quite what it seems. Isabeau soon discovers why her…
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
In the sweltering heat of summer, Isabel’s desperate need for control reaches boiling point. What happens between the two women leads to a revelation which threatens to unravel all she has ever known..
Dark Matter – Blake Crouch
“Are you happy with your life?”
Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before a masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.”
Gemina – Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman
Hanna is the station captain’s pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy’s most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion..
Can You Solve the Murder? – Antony Johnston
There’s been a murder at Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on the lawn. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death. Now everyone is a suspect and you need to figure it out…









