Books being published in April that will continue to add to my #bookproblems… This book pairs middle age alchemy with present day angst. If you could make gold, what would you do? Get in to Harvard? Move to Silicon Valley? What could go wrong? There is a pet mongoose in this one. Nuff. Said. There’s…
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The Nature of Fragile Things
By Susan Meissner This book is about San Francisco in 1906 – the year of the great earthquake and subsequent burning of most of the city. It is also about sociopathy, defining love and loyalty, and walking fine ethical lines. Sophie Hocking, nee Whelan, a recent immigrant from Ireland, finds the slums in New York…
Finlay Donovan is Killing It
By Elle Cosimano This book is about struggling, newly-single mother, Finlay, and her attempts to get a book in on deadline. Struggling is putting it mildly, and deadline is a punny choice of word…. While venting to her agent at a Panera, Finlay is overheard and mistaken for a hitman…well, hitwoman, and the contracts keep…
The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry
By C.M. Waggoner This book is about a gutterwitch named Dellaria Wells. She is a fiery (literally), fierce, and independent heroine whose weakness seems to be her love of an absent, addict mother. The reader begins meeting Delly hard up to make her rent, and unsure where her wayward mother has been holing up for…
March 2021 TBR Pile
Books coming out in March that I have been trying to reserve at the library but will likely end up buying to shorten my anticipation – #bookdragon #bookish #bookproblems… Second Installment of this new series from Cassandra Clare, taking her Shadowhunters to an earlier time period. I devoured the first and have been looking forward…
Pretty as a Picture
By Elizabeth Little This book is about a murder happening on the set of a movie about a murder/true-crime story. The heroine, Marissa, has a brain that works on a different level from the rest of us, though the few people who have genuinely cared for her in her life assure her “there is nothing…
Spellbreaker
By Charlie N. Holmberg This book is about an orphan, Elsie Camden, abandoned at a young age and forced to labor in the workhouse. There, she discovers an ability to unravel spells put in place around her. Coincidentally, a member of the elusive Cowls also spots her ability, removing her from the workhouse, and establishing…
The Lies You Told
By Harriet Tyce This book is about a recently separated-from-her-husband woman who is forced to retreat back to her childhood home. Her home was fraught with manipulation, degradation, and a lack of love from an overbearing mother. Sadie Roper has always been determined to be better than her mother, and to never come back here…o…
All the Stars and Teeth
By Adalyn Grace This book follows the classic YA Fantasy trope of girl with special powers is the only one who can save the world. I did like some of the unique takes on the theme. Girl (Princess) is supposed to execute people, publicly and magically to prove her prowess. Girl befriends a mermaid. Girl…
February 2021 TBR Pile
Books that are coming out in February and have Peaked My Interest #neverenoughtime #nevertoomanybooks ~ Big Thanks to Goodreads’ Book Blurbs and Early Reviews!! In the South during the Vietnam War, brothers must believe in each other, and look beyond their murky pasts to prove none committed murder. Complete with prison bus riot, convicts, war…