Category: 2019 New Release Challenge

Review – Wild Life by Keena Roberts

Review – Wild Life by Keena Roberts

Posted November 13, 2019 by Carole in 2019 New Release Challenge, Book Reviews / 20 Comments

Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs by Keena Roberts Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: November 12, 2019 Date Read: November 11, 2019 Length: 352 pages Source: Publisher ★★★★☆ Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of […]

Review – Dead Voices by Katherine Arden

Review – Dead Voices by Katherine Arden

Posted November 12, 2019 by Carole in 2019 New Release Challenge, Book Reviews / 16 Comments

Dead Voices by Katherine Arden Series: Small Spaces #2 Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Publication Date: August 27, 2019 Date Read: October 22, 2019 Length: 236 pages Source: Library ★★★★☆ Bestselling author Katherine Arden returns with another creepy, spine-tingling adventure in this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Small Spaces. Having survived sinister […]

Review – Fortress of Blood by L.D. Goffigan

Review – Fortress of Blood by L.D. Goffigan

Fortress of Blood by L.D. Goffigan Narrated by Danielle Cohen Series: Mina Murray #2 Publisher: L.D. Goffigan Publication Date: September 23, 2019 Date Read: October 28, 2019 Length: 5 hours 51 minutes Source: Narrator ★★★★☆ Mina Murray returns in this suspenseful retelling of a classic tale…. Transylvania, 1890. Mina and her allies have found the […]

Review – Laughter at the Academy by Seanan McGuire

Review – Laughter at the Academy by Seanan McGuire

Posted November 5, 2019 by Carole in 2019 New Release Challenge, Book Reviews / 9 Comments

Laughter at the Academy by Seanan McGuire Publisher: Subterranean Press Publication Date: October 31, 2019 Date Read: November 2, 2019 Length: 376 pages Source: NetGalley ★★★☆☆ From fairy tale forest to gloomy gothic moor, from gleaming epidemiologist’s lab to the sandy shores of Neverland, Seanan McGuire’s short fiction has been surprising, delighting, confusing, and transporting […]

Review – Song of the Crimson Flower by Julie C. Dao

Review – Song of the Crimson Flower by Julie C. Dao

Song of the Crimson Flower by Julie C. Dao Series: Rise of the Empress companion Publisher: Philomel Publication Date: November 5, 2019 Date Read: November 3, 2019 Length: 288 pages Source: Publisher via Bookish First ★★★★☆ From the acclaimed author of Forest of a Thousand Lanterns comes a fantastical new tale of darkness and love, […]

Review – The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Review – The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow Publisher: Redhook Publication Date: September 10, 2019 Date Read: October 18, 2019 Length: 384 pages Source: Purchased ★★★★★ In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut. In a […]

Review – Moonlighter by Sarina Bowen

Review – Moonlighter by Sarina Bowen

Moonlighter by Sarina Bowen Series: The Company #1 Publisher: Tuxbury Publishing LLC Publication Date: October 22, 2019 Date Read: October 21, 2019 Length: 370 pages Source: Author/Publicist ★★★★☆ Only in my family could a professional hockey player earning seven million dollars a year be considered a slacker. I’m at the height of my athletic career. Yet […]