pickA tender love story between a sentient alien plant named Stasia and a trans man named Graham. Also a cracking alien invasion story. Huge thanks to #netgalley for access to this audiobook. The solo narrator ably did this chunky page turner justice.
pickToby is this close to her due date when Queen Arden comes to her requesting her help to hunt down the stolen magical treasures of the realm. Everything should go super smoothly, right?
This whole series continues to amaze me! I love the world, I love Toby‘s tenacity, the relationship w/ Tybalt, & we get cameos from some of my favorite side characters! Unfortunately, there was a bit too much info dumping of summarizing the past 18 books.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
so-soThere's quite a bit I like in We Are Legion (We Are Bob): interstellar travel, problem solving with limited resources, first contact with sapient aliens, interplanetary colonization, terraforming--the list goes on. What I'm not so fond of is the massive amount of technobabble and all the hand-waving that still happens.
Despite the annoyances, the positives outweighed the negatives for me so I'll be reading the next book.
Received via #NetGalley.
pickThis was an interesting gothic tale but it didn't grab me like some of her other work. THis one was a real slow burn setting up the story and only really became creepy towards the end. I did enjoy the build up however and getting to know the characeters seeeing them deal with the prejudices of the time. No one stood out to me as overly likeable though I warmed to Florence by the end. #Netgalley #TurnThe Page 3*
pickA book of 12 short stories built around the 12 days of Christmas & also interconnected & set in the fictional town of Merrywake.
My first thought on this was it's very Downton Abbey meets Pride & Prejudice! In fact it was very P&P coded for me: five daughters (the pretty one, the vivacious one, the studious one, the two rather silly younger ones), one of the stories was even called 'First Impressions'. (continued)
pickFirst book of the #ReadingRetreat, #Gladstones25, finished at the airport before departure.
A retelling of Cinderella as a ghost haunting her father's house and serving her step-mother and her daughters. Until she goes to the ball.
Novella #NetGalley #ARC #MountARC
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pickAfter joining his best friend Sol & his family on a camping trip, Adam is feeling a bit bored & restless. He decides to go for a walk & Sol tags along, & in the middle of nowhere they happen upon a strange town. All the houses & shops are cheerily decorated but eerily silent with no people around & there is a bandstand in the middle of the town square with an odd statue in it.
pickThis was a fascinating read both about Will Rohrbein & the expedition & discoveries of William Beebe, a naturalist & pioneer of deep-sea diving using his invention - the bathysphere. I can only imagine how bewildering it must have been for a young boy to have lost his father, then see his mother & sister go abroad whilst he had to wait to join them, & then was sent on aboard a ship for months where he didn't speak the language of most of the crew.
pickLily is transferred to the asylum partway through her prison sentence & is chosen as the first prisoner to speak to the new female psychiatrist as she seems to have shown little of the 'hysteria' she was sent there for. The psychiatrist believes that if Lily tells her her life story, then she can make up her mind about whether to recommend Lily for release.
