This book opens with a content warning, so I want to start my review by letting you know that this book contains a lot of things, including gore, infanticide, rape, violence against animals... and a lot of people doing mushrooms. Moonflow is about Sarah, a trans-woman, who finds herself in financial trouble when her mushroom …
Effy longs to study literature, her love of Myrrdins work being a major part of her life, but in her world women aren't allowed to study it, so she's relegated to being the only woman on the architecture course. Her guidance counselor has sexually harassed her, and the male students constantly hit on her, so …
This week, we return to the Scholastic Bookfair to check out the classic Bunnicula, the story of a loyal family dog Harold who suspects the new family pet rabbit has a sinister secret... A nostalgic dive into the story behind the story and an exploration of the plot of this children's classic. Contains spoilers. This …
Continue reading Return To The Bookfair – Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe (1979)
Ellie and Drake, a recently engaged couple, come across magical cinema one night down a fog covered alleyway. When they enter, they're given ten tickets to see midnight movies that play them significant memories of their lives. Ellie wants to come back, hoping to find out more about a night she can't remember clearly, while …
It's Winter in the 90's in Dalton, Maine. Rose has made a steady life for herself and her two sons, and is even contemplating a romance with Nate, the local policeman, when her abusive ex Tommy returns to town, with a lot of promises to stop drinking and also secretly toting a gun... Meanwhile, college-aged …
Continue reading In A Distant Valley by Shannon Bowring (Dalton, Maine #3)
After several years, Ann Cleeves has brought back DI Jimmy Perez! DI Perez has left Shetland and settled into his new home in the Orkney Islands, with his partner in crime and in life, Willow Reeves, and they're expecting a baby. After a wild storm, Archie Stout, a local personality and Perez's childhood friend, is …
Continue reading The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves (Shetland #9, Perez & Reeves #1)
A heavily pregnant Sargent Hill and DCI Lloyd (her partner on and off the job), are helping out at the local amateur dramatic society right before Christmas when the DCI gets a call that the local GPs wife has been found murdered in her home. The GP happens to be part of the play, and …
Continue reading Scene Of Crime: A Christmas Murder Mystery by Jill McGown
London, 1917. The body of an unknown man is found inside a locked closet in a highly secret area of Naval Intelligence, with a telegram in his pocket that could wreak havoc if it fell into the wrong hands. Agent Peter Gallagher sees there are a lot of players to this puzzle, so he invites …
A man's body is found behind a corner store, his heart cut out and the smell of perfume in the air, leading locals to think the killer is a woman, or maybe, if the rumors of hoofprints at the scene are true, something supernatural. Meanwhile, seven year old Layla is growing up, longing for a …
On Halloween, a group of teens go to an area called Sally In The Wood, a local road that's said to be haunted by a murdered girl. The next morning, one of them is found dead, and laid out strangely. Rachel, the school guidance counselor at the expensive school the girl attended, struggles to deal …
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