Book Reviews

Audiobook Review: The House In The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

November 21, 2020 Leave a Comment

12 hours 12 minutes | Macmillian Audio | Fantasy | Release Date: 3/17/2020

I heard about this book on an episode of RomBkPod last year and ever since then I have seen it EVERYWHERE. Klune is prolific in the m/m indie romance space; his traditional publishing debut tells the story of Linus Baker, a middle-aged social worker for magical children who is given a special assignment at an unusual orphanage where he eventually falls for the orphanage’s master. This book has one of the highest Goodreads ratings I’ve ever seen and charmed both fantasy and romance readers alike. It’s ultimately a warm tale about acceptance, found family and finding home but…it didn’t work for me.

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Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

November 17, 2020 Leave a Comment

512 pages | Tor | Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Release Date: 08/04/2020

Harrow The Ninth dives back into the dark futuristic world of Gideon The Ninth as Harrow begins her journey to Lyctorhood. Not all is what it seems and Harrow learns some secrets refuse to die. Muir brings her signature blend of cerebral horror, fantasy, and gore with a side of (purposefully) obnoxious humor that will keep dedicated readers wondering …what’s going on? How? Who is that? Wait…what?

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Cross Her Heart by Melinda Leigh

November 7, 2020 Leave a Comment

331 Pages| Montlake | Mystery/Thriller | Release Date: 03/17/2020

This chilling new mystery/thriller series from Melinda Leigh follows Bree Taggert, a Philadelphia homicide detective, as she returns to the small town where decades ago her father killed her mother. Tragedy has struck again and now Bree is on the hunt for her sister’s killer. In a strange twist of fate her sister’s estranged husband is the main suspect– but his best friend, former deputy Matt Flynn, thinks otherwise. On opposing sides, Matt and Bree decide to team up and investigate under the watchful eye of a possibly corrupt police force.

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Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

October 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

15 Hours 54 Minutes | Hachette Audio | YA Fantasy | 10/02/2018

Laini Taylor is one of those authors who reminds me why I love books and reading. She weaves these sweepingly romantic epic fantasies that I can’t imagine working in any other medium. I have officially reached book hangover territory.

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Audiobook Review: Someone We Know by Shari Lapena

October 21, 2020 Leave a Comment

7 hours 50 min. | Penguin Audio | Mystery| Release Date: 7/30/2019

An idyllic upstate New York neighborhood is shaken when a flirtatious young wife is found brutally murdered in the trunk of her car. Her shady husband is the number one subject but in this neighborhood, everyone has a secret worth killing for

And by secret I mean cheating. Like, there is a lot of mentions of cheating in this book.

This my first foray into domestic mystery/thriller after Big Little Lies--which was one of my favorite reading experiences–and this one just didn’t work for me. I didn’t get the racing to the end feeling I wanted and it may have had something to do with the fact that I figured out the killer at 60%.

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Audiobook Review: Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller

October 4, 2020 Leave a Comment

4 hours 55 minutes| Simon & Schuster Audio | Nonfiction | Release Date: 4/14/2020

Science reporter Lulu Miller is maybe best known as the co-founder of the Invisibilia podcast. I remember when she left the show to write a book and when I saw her book on Scribd I decided to check it out.

This book is a mix of memoir, nature writing and biography as Miller dives into the life of 19th-century ichthyologist David Starr Jordan and his obsessive quest to categorize every existing fish. Miller became fascinated with Jordan during a bleak period in her own life and seeks to learn what drove Jordan to create order out of chaos when everything was falling apart around him.

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