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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🐺 From Fake Fiancés to Feral Instincts: Last Week’s Reads & What’s Next
Last week didn’t go the way I planned — and honestly? That might’ve been for the best. Instead of getting lost in mythology (Mythos by Stephen Fry) and cozy magic (Mosaics & Magic by Nancy Warren) like I intended, I fell headfirst into a small-town fake engagement (The Fiancé Dilemma …
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 …
Some drive-by mini reviews
It’s been a while since I’ve done any mini-reviews (and, y’know, actually finished reading any books to write a review of) so here’s a little round-up of what I’ve been reading recently. I’ve DNFed two books in the last week: The first one was Kelly Ambers – Her First Collar: …
A Quick Catch Up
So, the news in brief and some reading roundups are The not-COVID I had at the beginning of the month? Yeah, it turned out to actually be COVID. Li and I were both pretty sick for about 10 days, and completely exhausted for about another week. I still get fatigued …
Thanátou (The Blood Witch Saga Book 1)
Happy Publication Day to Natalie J Case whose latest book Thanátou (The Blood Witch Saga Book 1) is out today. Thána Archer thinks she knows what her life is about. A mid-level manager at a manufacturing company, Thána is good at what she does. She doesn’t believe in magic, witches …
Genres
I have come across two different blogging prompts/link ups this week that are asking the opposite questions to each other, so I thought I’d combine them into one post. First up, Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge! is asking Favourite Book Genre and why and while I’m not sure I can articulate the why, I can …