pickFirst finish of #10BeforeTheEnd for me is this, the second in the Olga Pushkin Mysteries series. I like Olga as a character, and enjoyed this gentlest unfolding murder mystery, but, oh, the cliffhanger ending 😱
@ChaoticMissAdventures
Book 94 #Read2025 @DieAReader
#SeriesLove2025
#weeklyforecast
Catch up with Mona‘s Eyes, #EuropiaCollective, continue with Twain,#familyread, read Women who Run with Wolves #wildwoman, Death Climbs a Tree #fictionaltraveler #tree,read next section of #sundaybuddyread, listen to Hunted on the Fens, #audiomystery; Trace Elements, #CommissarioGuidoBrunnettiMystery
I have participated in 46 of these activities. Here are a few worth noting.
1. Hayride - no murder, but I think they‘re overrated
2. S‘mores - definitely not overrated
3. Tailgating at a football game - my husband‘s cousins all went to Penn State and have tailgating down to a science
#threelistthursday #TLT
Link: https://www.listchallenges.com/litsy-autumn-experiences
pickThis was... okay? I was definitely curious about the mystery, but not so totally absorbed that I couldn't have lived without finding the answer. Still, I felt really meh today and this kept me interested enough to read about half of it in one go, so I think I'm just generally muted in affect today and I probably liked it.
Either way, that was my #DoubleSpin.
pick4 Stars • In A Whisper of Death (Raven & Wren #1) by Darcy Burke, set in 1868 London, Hadrian Becket, Earl of Ravenhurst, gains psychometric powers after surviving a stabbing. He teams up with sharp-witted private investigator Matilda "Tilda" Wren to solve his attack and her cousin‘s suspicious death. ⬇️
so-soJust okay. The mystery was fine, but the characters were all 2-dimensional tropes. So much so, that I actually wondered if it was intentional, kind of like a spoof of a bad movie.
This was my #ThematicCozies choice for the August prompt #Travel .
