Today I come to you with another book that Netgalley let me read! The Geomagician Jennifer Mandula When a Victorian fossil hunter discovers a baby pterodactyl, she vows to protect him with the help of a fellow scholar—her former fiancé—in this enchanting and transporting historical fantasy. Mary Anning wants to be a geomagician—a paleontologist who uses fossils to wield magic—but since the Geomagical Society of London refuses to admit women, she’s stuck selling her discoveries to tourists instead. When an ancient egg hatches in her hands, revealing a loveable baby pterodactyl Mary names Ajax, she knows this is the kind of scientific find that could make her career—if she’s strategic. Mary contacts the Society about her discovery, and they demand to take possession of Ajax. Their emissary is none other than Henry Stanton, a distinguished (and infuriatingly handsome) scholar... and the man who once broke Mary's hear...
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So, first off, I want to thank Netgalley and the Publishing House Creating Publishing Company for allowing me to read an ARC of this book: Some routes are easier to run than to finish. At seventeen, Pim is one of the best canal runners in Copperwhistle—fast, reliable, invisible. She's spent nine years building a reputation on one simple rule: trust no one, need no one. It's kept her safe. It's kept her alone. Now she's aging out of the only life she knows. When a message she delivered goes missing, Pim's reputation—her only currency—is suddenly worthless. Someone is intercepting deliveries from the runner network, and the suspicion is falling on the runners. To clear her name, she'll need to do the one thing she's sworn never to do: ask for help. The investigation pulls her into an unlikely partnership with Tenny, a former runner who's already made the leap Pim fears. It forces her to see the people who've been quietly looking out for her all along—...
Good morning world - I have been very bad about writing book reviews and actually reading books - and I want to share with you the book that brought me back to reading. I have been reading stories from Pirateaba since the beginning - The Wandering Inn . Like religiously, even getting the Audible Books narrated by Andrea Parsneau - a wonderfully talented narrator. At some point I must have heard about Gravesong - bought the Audible book and listened to it religiously while I was sleeping (that is another story) then brought the books as soon as they hit Amazon on Kindle. Gravesong, is in the same universe as The Wandering Inn but it primarily deals with Cara O'Sullivan. Actor, singer...necromancer? All the world's a stage...even when you're teleported to a new world. Struggling actress Cara O'Sullivan was walking down the street of Galway one moment, and the next, she was in an ancient tomb in a faraway world. Alone in the dark with her cell phone as her las...
And the Lake Will Take Them by Linda Norlander I read this book while I had pneumonia - and it kept me on my toes and engaged while I was coughing my had off. It all takes place in a small town - the sheriff is the widow of the former sheriff and he was the son of the former sheriff. There is a lot of infighting - there are parts of the town that want to get rid of her - nepotism? But personally it was because they were all guilty and wanted to put in their own sheriff so that way they could control the town. We hear about her husbands death extensively - and we go back to flashbacks - she is still grieving - and on Christmas she goes back to look at dead cases - which there are four. Missy happens to be the current case, her father was one of the four unsolved cases - and then we have a crazy person running around (who I think was SAed and has multiple personalities). There were so many twists and turns - and we got to learn about the local "p...
Cozy Case Files, Volume 23 A Cozy Mystery Sampler by Paige Shelton; Gigi Pandian; Jennifer J. Chow; Ellie Alexander; Diane Kelly; Vivien Chien I read this over the holidays while having pneumonia. This is a sample of a collection of books - you get Star-Crossed Egg Tarts - about a Asian American caterer who prepares wedding treats - shockingly there is a murder at the wedding - Killing me Souflee - I would buy this one as a stand alone book. The Library Game, Written in Stone, Dead Post Society and The Chow Maniac are also included. I didn't know there was a Lillian Jackson Braun award - I love her books - Overall, a good smattering of introductions to authors I have not heard of before. I would give it a five - just on the intros - and I can't wait to read som new authors! I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
The Last Voyage by Brian D. McLaren Before I start - I was given the opportunity to read this ARC before it was published for an honest review - from NetGalley. This is my review! The Last Voyage will be published on July 31, 2025. Book one of three. In the future, the world will be ruled by oligarchs' - who will give "power" to politicians and governments around the world - but the true rulers are the oligarchs. (This is the books premise). Well basically the oligarchs' do not care for humanity the planet - gasp - just on getting more money, raping the land of more resources. Until they kill it. The Last Voyage is the last group of ten attempting to get to Mars. It is funded by the "last good oligarch. The book begins by meeting one of the main scientists leaving her country -all cloak and dagger and carrying cyanide pills on her jewelry. Then you meet the two big characters - maybe three - Eve and her father and then one of the oli...
I just recently finished "The After Hours" by Aspen Andersen. The book will be published on March 4, 2025. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. I was intrigued with the plot line - time traveling, romance, intrigue, murder - I mean that is what all books should be made of. The story goes into depth on how this "supernatural abilities" came about and what it entails -and the rules that go along with using them. I really do not want to give to much away - the one group of beings that have this power has supposedly wiped out by a battle with another group - well it turns out that there was one more person until she "jumps" to the future and gives her power to a girl, Sloane, that we meet in her present. Sloane has a lot of baggage of her own - and the book shows her trying to deal with it - with jumps back to the past, but then there will be like three or four "hers" in the past so it gets comp...