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Top Ten Tuesday: Book Characters I Wish Were Real People

Posted November 10, 2026 by Nicky in General / 1 Comment

This week’s prompt from the Top Ten Tuesday list is “Book Characters I Wish Were Real People”. I’ll have to put on my thinking cap for this one, because the answers aren’t coming to me very readily — but I’ll give it a shot.

Maia Drazhar (Edrehasivar VII), from The Goblin Emperor (Katherine Addison).
Just because he’s a favourite, really! And not too good to be true: he struggles with a lot of negative feelings, with difficult history with others around him, with anger and spite — but he rises above. If only more people with power were like him!
Harriet Vane, from the Lord Peter Wimsey books (Dorothy L. Sayers).
Quite simply, I’d love to read her books!
Greta Helsing, from the Dr. Greta Helsing books (Vivian Shaw).
Okay, we’d have to also have various folklore creatures in order for her to actually have her usual job, but… even if she were just a normal British GP, it seems like she’d be pretty awesome. She has the right motivations to be a doctor, and will help everyone because she feels she has to, no matter what they’ve done. Excellent qualities in a doctor.
Lady Isabella Trent, from the Lady Trent books (Marie Brennan).
A pioneering female scientist to look up to? Yes, please. Also… I wouldn’t mind a few dragons to come along with her, to keep her from getting bored. (Maybe also bring her husband Suhail along too. She’d be a menace if she got really bored, so let’s give her plenty to keep her busy.)
Shen Yuan, from The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System (Mo Xiang Tong Xiu).
Transmigration and all, please! If the webnovel can be in English and I can be one of the readers who so torment him by pushing the change to the genre, that’d be hilarious, too.
Masaru, from Dinosaur Sanctuary (Itaru Kinoshita).
A real dinosaur I could actually visit in a zoo? Yes please! I’d love to see all of them, like Trom and Benki, too, but Masaru’s a special one.
King Arthur, from the Arthurian legends.
If he could make his prophesied return to fix the world (or at least Britain; if we start there, maybe it’ll make a difference?) now, I’d love that, please.
Chief Inspector Macdonald, from the Macdonald mysteries (E.C.R. Lorac).
And his whole team, to be honest. If cops were all actually like Macdonald, we at least wouldn’t see the abuses of power etc etc that we do. It’s nice to imagine.
Phryne Fisher, from the Miss Fisher mysteries (Kerry Greenwood).
Okay, she and I would have very little in common, but I’m pretty sure she’d be a net positive to the world all the same.
Breq, from the Imperial Radch books (Ann Leckie).
Breq knows a fair bit about dealing with tyranny, after all. She could sure shake things up!

In most of these cases, I don’t think I want to meet these people (I’m shy anyway), I just want them to exist! They’d do some good in the world.

Tags: books, Top Ten Tuesday

Fantasy with Friends: Graphic Novel Adaptations

Posted November 9, 2026 by Nicky in General / 1 Comment

Monday means Fantasy with Friends time! All the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about graphic novel adaptations:

An increasing number of books seem to be newly adapted as graphic novels. How do you feel about this trend? Are you excited to see new adaptations? Do you think new audiences could discover the story? Are there some books that you think might be difficult to adapt in this way?

I’m sort of ambivalent on this topic. On the one hand, a lot of the ones I’ve read seem to either simplify the story too much or not really do a great job of adaptation. Sometimes they feel more like they’re just illustrated versions, and that’s disappointing, because the thing about graphic novels is that they’re a whole different form, and you have to tell the story in a different way. I get why they sometimes stick close to the source (like A Wizard of Earthsea‘s adaptation does), but it sometimes means they don’t really work as graphic novels.

On the other hand, I’ve been reading some great manhua and manhwa adaptations of various Chinese and Korean webnovels, like Solo Leveling, Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Heaven Official’s Blessing… and I really appreciate the way the switch to a visual medium helps me understand what characters and settings look like (which I need a lot of help with, given that I’m completely aphantasic). Often I find that reading the graphic adaptations helps the details fall into place, as well.

So I definitely feel there have been bad adaptations, and ones that are not to my taste, and ones which are just cash-ins… but that doesn’t mean I won’t try more, just that I’m maybe a bit cautious about it.

Tags: books, discussion, Fantasy with Friends, SF/F

My Year in Non-Fiction

Posted November 8, 2026 by Nicky in General / 19 Comments

This week’s theme for Nonfiction November is “My Year in Non-fiction”, so I dug into my StoryGraph stats a bit as a starting point, finding I’ve read 83 books that StoryGraph classes as non-fiction — so far! That does seem to include some of the poetry anthologies that I’ve read, but even so, I think it’s likely to be too many books to feature them all… so let’s talk mostly about the good ‘uns.

You might also be interested in my post from last year, which took a theme-based approach.

Five-star non-fiction I read in 2026:

This is what it says on the tin: the handful of books I gave my highest and rarest rating.

As you see, it’s a pretty select bunch! Here are links to the reviews:

A History of England in 25 Poems (Catherine Clarke)
Ramesses the Great: Egypt’s King of Kings (Toby Wilkinson)
The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History (Selena Wisnom)

I’m surprised no science books made it into this tier, but thinking back on this year, I haven’t read a whole lot of popular science.

Four-star non-fiction I read in 2026:

These are still pretty great books which just missed being perfect for me, with my four-star rating meaning “I really liked it”. (Note: I’m not saying five-star books are perfect in general, it’s not an objective assessment! I rate based on enjoyment.) They’re still pretty great.

As you see, it’s a fairly random mix! Here are the reviews:

The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs: The 230-Million-Year Story of Their Time On Earth (Riley Black)
The Meteorite Hunters: On the Trail of Extra-Terrestrial Treasures and the Secrets Inside Them (Joshua Howgego)
Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works (Helen Pearson)
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It (Cory Doctorow)
Dressing the Queen: Two Hundred Years of Makers and Monarchy (Kate Strasdin)
Japanese Dress in Detail (Josephine Rout)
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature (various authors)
Craft Land: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts & Vanishing Trades (James Fox)
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Mary Beard)
Lost Voices of the Nile: Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt (Charlotte Booth)
Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity (Alice Roberts)
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age (Eleanor Barraclough)
Welsh Food Stories (Carwyn Graves)
How to Kill A Language: Power, Resistance and the Race to Save Our Words (Sophia Smith Galer)
Cryptic: From Voynich to the Angel Diaries, the Story of the World’s Mysterious Manuscripts (Garry J. Shaw)
How Queer Bookshops Changed the World (A.J. West)
Queer Georgians: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers and Homemakers (Anthony Delaney)

My review of The Welsh Language: A History (Janet Davies) isn’t up yet, but in brief, I found it a good primer to the history and culture of the Welsh language.

Notable three-star non-fiction I read in 2026:

In my writing system, a three-star read is still a “liked it”. I won’t go over all of my three-star reads, but there are some I found interesting to read and talk about, and one person’s ‘meh’ is another person’s perfect book, so you never know… you might find something perfect for you here! For these, I’ve added a brief note about why I had reservations, so you can decide if you want to check out the full review.

A Woman’s Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering (Elinor Cleghorn) — I found this an emotionally tough but interesting read.
20th-Century Fashion in Detail (Claire Wilcox et al) — this series is pretty amazing, and this volume is gorgeous as ever; I just have quibbles on presentation.
The Queer Thing about Sin: Why the West Came to Hate Queer Love (Harry Tanner) — this has interesting ideas flawed by unconscious assumptions and poor understanding of non-Christian religions.
Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire (Emma Southon) — lingered enough on certain aspects that it began to feel prurient, but a good history.
A History of the World in 50 Pieces (Tom Service) — interesting idea, longed for a playlist; also, it’s not really a history of the world, more a history of significant pieces.
City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Papyri Beneath the Egyptian Sand Reveal a Long-Lost World (Peter Parsons) — would’ve loved more focus on the actual papyri as objects and how they give up their information, rather than only the information they contained.
Love and Desire in the Promised Land: The Private Lives of Israelis and Palestinians (Deloupy & Salomé Parent-Rachdi) — very wordy for a graphic novel, art not to my taste, but a fascinating perspective.
Cat Tales: A History: How We Learned to Live with Cats and They Learned to Live With Us (Jerry D. Moore) — didn’t discuss house cats as much as I’d hoped given the title.

Bottom line:

I’m surprised all over again by the relative lack of popular science or science history books through each category here for this year (though there are some three-star or lower books I didn’t feature, the pattern held). I guess that maybe having completed my most recent degree (an MSc in Infectious Diseases) and graduated this year, I was escaping a little bit — it was a worthwhile endeavour, and infectious diseases remain fascinating, but maybe I needed a break, ha.

Also, thinking about it, I think a lot of the popular science I encountered in the wild was based around nutrition and rarely seemed to address the immune implications of diet (which I’ve studied), so it wasn’t interesting to me. May that trend pass and more interesting pop-science come my way, please! Santa, I have some requests…

As ever, you can see my usual fairly random interest, with a focus on “a history of X in Y objects” type books, Egyptology, fashion history, Greek and Roman history, and Welsh history. A bit of a theme of queer non-fiction ran through this year, too; that’s not one of my particular interests per se, but it’s obviously relevant and interesting when it does cross my path.

Now I’ve finally done mine, I’m looking forward to reading about everyone else’s year in non-fiction!

Tags: books, discussion, non-fiction, Non-fiction November

Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted November 7, 2026 by Nicky in General / 30 Comments

Haaaaappy weekend! It’s been a busy week, though it always seems to be a busy week around here!

Books acquired this week

Wooo, another pre-order came in! I thought Mistakenly Saving the Villain was supposed to be released in October, but I guess either it got changed or the date I saw before was an error. I’ve been eagerly waiting for it, either way! I’d actually preordered it back in August, knowing I’d want it ASAP on release.

I did also snag a handful of novellas that looked tempting in honour of Novellas in November. I deliberately went for a bit of a spread of genres, since it seems like a good opportunity to dip my toe into different authors and try things.

Excited to read all of these! I’ve already made a start.

Posts from this week

As usual, here’s a round-up of the reviews first! Don’t forget that these are from the last few months, and don’t represent what I read this week. I have sooo many reviews backlogged and ready to post, but I try not to flood the blog — and to post some variety. My descriptions of my ratings are literal, too: if I rated something 3/5 stars, I promise I really did like it!

Poetry: Off the Shelf, ed. Carol Ann Duffy (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Fantasy manhwa: Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, vol 4, by Umi and Sleepy-C (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Sci-fi horror: There Is No Antimimetics Division, by qntm (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Fantasy: The Green Man’s Heir, by Juliet E. McKenna (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Mystery: Let Him Lie, by Ianthe Jerrold (3/5 stars, “liked it”)
Non-fiction: Embers of the Hands, by Emma Barraclough (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)
Poetry: A460: Poems for the Road, by Ness Owen and Sian Northey (4/5 stars, “really liked it”)

Of course, there have been a bunch of non-review posts:

Man, it’s good to be able to schedule posts again! This was my most organised week in a while, even given I’ve been drafting and formatting posts in advance again for a few months.

What I’m reading

As usual, let’s start with a sneak peek at what I’ve been reading! Last Saturday the Haunted Shelf readathon ended, so I got enthusiastic… as ever, don’t take any book’s inclusion here as a recommendation, though! It’s just a log of what I’ve read — reviews come later.

Here are the books I’ll be reviewing some time soon:

My plan for the weekend involves reading a lot of novellas, unsurprisingly! But I also hope to sort through some books and start some more of my longer reads as well, focusing on sci-fi and non-fiction (in aid of the other reading challenges I’ve joined in with this month)… though I’m also likely to tackle Mistakenly Saving the Villain vol 4, and/or start my reread of After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine.

Once the fourth volume of the latter hits, that’ll be my first priority this week! I hope it’ll get dispatched on Tuesday and arrive on Wednesday. 🤞

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, and It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? at The Book Date.

Tags: books, Stacking the Shelves, weekly roundup

Book Blogger Hop: Owning a Bookshop

Posted November 6, 2026 by Nicky in General / 8 Comments

It’s Friday, so it’s time for the Book Blogger Hop again, hosted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer. I’ve made my own image from a stock photo (credit: Anna Shvets) to avoid adding images created via generative AI to my blog. Feel free to use it too if you would like!

This week’s prompt is a what-if:

Imagine you owned a bookstore—what would it feel like?

Oof, probably quite stressful! Managing stock, dealing with customers, handling rent and taxes and paying any employees… yeah, I can’t help it, my brain jumped straight to the practicalities! Running any kind of business is way more stressful than cosy fiction likes to make it seem. Much as I love my cosy stories, that’s the first thing that came to mind!

But… if I did… I imagine that there’d be some amazing moments, too. Getting to know regulars and being able to hand them the right book in the right moment. Knowing my shop would be a nice escape for people from the busy high street or whatever’s going on in their heads. Handling all those lovely, lovely books… and getting to curate the selection to have a little something for everyone. That would be a lot of fun.

If I owned a bookshop, I’d definitely make sure to make it the kind of haven that a reader like me would enjoy, with a little of everything, so that’d be really satisfying, too.

Tags: Book Blogger Hop, books, discussion

November Reading Plans

Posted November 5, 2026 by Nicky in General / 2 Comments

I’m not sure if this will be a regular monthly feature, but this month happens to have a bunch of fun things going on, and I’d have liked to share more about the Haunted Shelf Shenanigans last month… so let’s have a chat about my reading plans for the month!

First up, there’s a readathon on Dreamwidth’s readingtogether community designed to focus on unread and half-read books in November. I have a plethora of those, so here are my targets:

Finish five books from my “paused” pile on StoryGraph
Finish five books from my backlog (that aren’t already in my paused pile), i.e. books bought before 2026 began
Finish five books bought in 2026 (that aren’t already in my currently reading/paused pile)

I figure that’s very doable (at least at my current reading pace), without constraining me too much on what to read. It should be able to feed into most of my other reading challenges this month!

Speaking of which…

Learn more here!

If you’ve hung around here much, you’ll know that I’m a fairly big non-fiction reader, and I hope to join in with the posts about this and do some non-fiction reading this month — especially since I didn’t fit in a lot of it last month. I’m not entirely sure what I’ll read, but here are some possibilities:

With My Own Hand (Ashley Douglas)
The Castle: A History (John Goodall)
A Lab of One’s Own (Patricia Fara)
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading (Sam Leith)
X Marks the Spot: The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries (Michael Scott)

But I’ll lean into my whim here, as ever. There are lots of books in my non-fiction bookcase that I haven’t read yet!

WWW Wednesday

Posted November 4, 2026 by Nicky in General / 8 Comments

What have you recently finished reading?

It’s been comics and poetry collections mostly for the last couple of days, perhaps because I was reading so intensely at the weekend! I think the last thing I finished was Kim Moore’s The Art of Falling, which is a poetry collection by a British poet from Leicester. I enjoyed it quite a bit, overall, though I’m still letting it settle before I actually write my review.

What are you currently reading?

I only have two books actively “in flight”: Any More Questions for the Corpse? by J.J. Unthank, and John Goodall’s The Castle: A History — the latter of which I haven’t touched in a few weeks, whoops.

I’m not sure yet what I think of Any More Questions for the Corpse? — I’m already 20% of the way through it, but not totally sure I’m enjoying it. There’s some intriguing stuff about the world-building, but something about the style isn’t quite working for me, I think.

What will you be reading next?

I still have some spooky books I’d like to finish (or at least try) in the wake of Halloween and the Haunted Shelf readathon: Emmeline Duncan’s Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop, for one. Mostly, though, I’m thinking about starting my reread of After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine, in prep for the next and final volume which is coming next week! I know I only read it in August, but I was honestly tempted to reread it right away, so I wanted to do a reread before reading the final volume.

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Top Ten Tuesday: One-Word Reviews

Posted November 3, 2026 by Nicky in General / 32 Comments

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is a fun one: “One-Word Reviews for the Last Ten Books I Read”. Let’s see if I can keep it that succinct! It won’t be quite the last ten books I read exactly because I’m writing this a couple of days in advance…

Devil Inside, by Clay McLeod Chapman. “Transgressive.”
Paper Girls, vol 1, by Brian K. Vaughan et al. “Confusing.”
Trail of Lightning, by Rebecca Roanhorse. “Electrifying.” (Yes, I am pleased with myself, why do you ask?)
The Nightmare Before Christmas, by Sara Raasch. “Cute.”
Startup Hell, by Caitlin Rozakis. “Familiar.”
The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City, by Susanna Clarke. “Short.”
Wearing the Lion, by John Wiswell. “Infuriating.”
Kakegurui, vol 1, by Homura Kawamoto. “Oversexed.”
Domnall and the Borrowed Child, by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley. “Inconclusive.”
The Airless Year, by Valentine Barker, Adam P. Knave, & Frank Cvetkovic. “Stifling.”

I’ll be curious to see what everyone else is reviewing, and what you all have to say!

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Fantasy with Friends: Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Posted November 2, 2026 by Nicky in General / 0 Comments

Monday means Fantasy with Friends time! All the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about sci-fi’s relationship with fantasy:

Science fiction and fantasy are often bundled together. Why do you think this is? How do you see the two genres as related or distinct? Do you enjoy both?

I think the two get bundled together because they’re fundamentally about imagining something that doesn’t exist (yet). There’s that saying about how any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic: if you watch something like Star Trek, a lot of the tech doesn’t exist and we can’t even extrapolate that it could exist. It’s fantasy in space, and the rules bend to whatever’s convenient for telling a good story.

So I think both genres rely on imagining the world to be different than it is, and they’re closer than you’d think. There are some amazing series that blend the two, like Rosemary Kirstein’s The Steerswoman, which looks like one thing and develops into another as you understand the world more. (Though really this is a bit spoilery about The Steerswoman; forget about it if you’re going to read the series!)

Sometimes when there’s something speculative going on, it’s hard to say whether it should be characterised as sci-fi or fantasy — I recently felt that There Is No Antimimetics Division straddled a few genres, for instance. (My review of that will actually go up later today, which is probably why it just popped into my head.)

I do enjoy both genres, both separately and in the cases where they seem to blend. I’d say I lean more toward fantasy than sci-fi, because I’m not a huge fan of the sci-fi that focuses on big ideas over plot and character — I’m definitely a character kind of reader, and my investment often (though not always) stands and falls by the characters, in any genre. But there are some amazing sci-fi works that have it all.

Tags: books, discussion, Fantasy with Friends, SF/F

October Reading Wrap-Up

Posted November 1, 2026 by Nicky in General / 16 Comments

Welp, October’s over and 2026 is really hurtling to a close. Have you had a good month?

October in general:

October’s been a busy month for a lot of folks in tech or tech-adjacent roles, with some scary website vulnerabilities… but I still found plenty of time for gaming, reading and crochet, and I’ve even finally got back to cycling after a year without thanks to the wrist injury I sustained in August 2025.

Speaking of crochet, it’s time to show off my progress! I’ve now finished the main body of the blanket, and “just” need to crochet the envelope border to finish it off and hide all those ends. My wife’s going to help me with tidying those up some before I start crocheting the border: they don’t need to be woven in, but I left some very long tails as insurance after the first couple of times I pulled back a few rows to fix mistakes.

I’m really happy with how it’s coming out! If you’re curious about the size, without the border it covers me from my toes to the top of my chest when I’m sat down, and it’s wide enough to wrap most of the way around me.

Gaming-wise, it’s been a month of pretty casual gaming, which has been great. I enjoy being a raider, but it’s been good to get off the schedule a while. I’ve been playing a ton of short free hidden object games, like Cats & Seek: Tokyo and the puzzle/hidden object game Membrillo Hid My Socks, in the last week or so, but I did also pick Lost and Found Co. back up to play the two new levels. There’s been more of Dressmaker, which I’ve been delighted to see has really taken off for gamers of all stripes, plus a new-to-me word game, Wordatro! and the puzzle game Mosaic of the Strange (which is a little bit spooky and seasonal). I’ve been replaying Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! thanks to the demo of the remake of the first game, as well.

Finally, in the last couple of days I’ve been playing Usagi Shima: Bunny Island. It used to be a mobile game with microtransactions, but the Steam version has cut that out, meaning I’ve just been having pure fun attracting bunnies to my island, buying toys for them with carrots, petting them, etc. The art has clearly been done by someone who knows bunnies, as there’s so much recognisable about the way they flop, sploot and loaf. I’m loving it.

Reading stats:

Total books read: 50
Total pages read: 10,502
Rereads: 2
ARCs: 0
Series finished/up to date: 6
Books owned pre-2026: 3
Books owned from 2026: 16
Borrowed books: 29

Fiction: 46
Non-fiction: 2
Poetry: 2
Comics, manga, manhwa, etc: 15

It’s been an absolutely epic month, thanks to the Haunted Shelf readathon which runs on Litsy (and now in an off-shoot Discord as well) in October each year. I ran a lot of reading sprints at the weekends, so I got a lot of reading done there… especially on the last Saturday of the month, where I read an absolutely ridiculous amount.

Progress on reading goals:

Overall total books: 289/300 (38 books ahead)
Overall pages read: 68,140/75,000 (5,469 pages ahead)
Books read from backlog: 38/50 (2 books behind)
Books bought in 2026 and not yet started: 38/40

Some good progress on my reduced reading goals, as you see! It’s possible I’ll bump it back up a bit, though I don’t think there’s much chance of meeting my original goal of 400 books this year — I’d have to read two books a day, which I didn’t even manage in October!

In November the limit on books bought in 2026 and not yet started will drop to 35… though I don’t think it’ll make it back to 20 before Christmas, ahaha. Still, I’m glad I decided to be flexible with it this year, and maybe next year it’ll work better for me again.

Blogging stats:

Views: 17.3k (up)
Visitors: 16.1k (up)
Likes: 329 (down)
Comments: 338 (down)
Reviews: 23
Other posts: 23

Bit of a downward trend for me on comments and likes lately, but lots of views! I think with the readathon and lots of weekend reading sprints, maybe I was doing less visiting of other blogs? And I know there were a couple of weeks this month where I didn’t post as much as usual, with fewer reviews this month than typical.

Most viewed posts:

Top Ten Tuesday: British Library Crime Classics (68 views)
Top Ten Tuesday: Things That Make Up My Perfect Day (44 views)
Review – Heaven Official’s Blessing, vol 3 (35 views)
Top Ten Tuesday: Scary Books This Wuss Enjoyed (32 views)
Top Ten Tuesday: Autumnal Colours (31 views)

My own favourite posts:

Stuff I loved from elsewhere:

From Books, Bones & Buffy: A WALTZ OF SINISTER IMPORT by Stephanie Burgis – Review, by Tammy
From Books, Bones & Buffy: FIND ME WHERE IT ENDS by Cassandra Khaw – Review, by Tammy
From The Bibliosanctum: Book Review: Dive Bar at the End of the Road by Kelley Armstrong, by Mogsy
From Becky’s Book Blog: Wondrous by Heather Fawcett – ARC Review! by Becky
From Books, Bones & Buffy: THE KILLING OF A CHESTNUT TREE by Oliver K. Langmead – Review, by Tammy
From Becky’s Book Blog: The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo – ARC Review! by Becky
From Dark Shelf of Wonders: DIRECT DESCENDENT by Tanya Huff | Review, by Veronica
From The Bibliosanctum: Book Review: It Looks Like You in the Dark by Mathilda Zeller, by Mogsy
From Books, Bones & Buffy: IT LOOKS LIKE YOU IN THE DARK by Mathilda Zeller – Review, by Tammy

As ever, it was really difficult to pick from a looong list of reviews I had saved for this post. I’m also sure there were some others I saved that have disappeared somehow, gaaah.

I hope everyone’s had a good month with all the reading they could wish!

Tags: books, monthly wrapup