Title: False Value (Rivers of London #8) Author: Ben Aaronovitch Dates read: 10/08/25 – 17/08/25 Rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 (3.5 stars) Publisher: Gollancz Number of pages: 420 Fiction or non-fiction: fiction Subject or genre: contemporary, crime, fantasy, mystery Book blurb: Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts …
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Currently Reading: ticking clocks and code-bound curses
Last week, I had grand plans for Frankenstein and False Value, but my brain waved a white flag. Mental health-wise, I just wasn’t in the headspace for Shelley’s heavy storms or Aaronovitch’s magical noir, so I pivoted to something gentler: Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood and A Thousand …
Currently Reading: experiments, ethics, and eldritch code.
Currently Reading: experiments, ethics, and eldritch code. I’ve accidentally themed the week around science gone rogue — one Victorian, one very modern. ⚡ Frankenstein – the original tale of grief, ambition, and what happens when you play god with science. Mary Shelley’s gothic classic is just as devastating and electric …
Book Review: Murder at Kings Crossing by Andrea Penrose
Title: Murder at Kings Crossing (Wrexford & Sloane #8) Author: Andrea Penrose Dates read: 07/03/25 – 23/04/25 Rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Publisher: Kensington Books Number of pages: 369 Fiction or non-fiction: fiction Subject or genre: historical fiction, mystery Book blurb: Celebration is in the air at Wrexford and Charlotte’s country estate as …
top ten red, white, & blue book covers
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to …
June 2023 Reading Wrap-Up
I had quite the good reading month in June and finished 9 books Kaleb Cooper – The World According To Kaleb I am honestly not sure what the point of this book was. Other than to make money. Like most fans of Clarkson’s Farm, I utterly adored Kaleb but this …
April 2023 Reading Wrap-Up
I read 7 books in April which seems to be about my average in 2023 Jeremy Clay – The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton: And Other Singular Tales from the Victorian Press A collection of extraordinary, bizarre and morbidly funny stories from the Victorian press. There were farces and tragedies …
Book Review: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Title: The Lost Apothecary Author: Sarah Penner Dates read: 28/02/22 – 19/03/22 Rating 4/5 Publisher: HarperCollins Number of pages: 320 Fiction or non-fiction: fiction Subject or genre: historical fiction, mystery Book blurb: A forgotten history. A secret network of women. A legacy of poison and revenge. Welcome to The Lost …
Drive-by Mini-Reviews
The only issue with reading multiple books at the same time, is that every now and again you manage to finish a whole collection of them all at the same time, which is what’s happened to me over the last few days. And, naturally, I was busy with school and …