Tsuro: Phoenix Rising
5.3
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Long ago, a vengeful god stole the stars from the night sky. To illuminate the night, hopeful people...
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2607 KP) rated Stark Raving Mod in Books
Mar 25, 2024
As always with this series, we are in for a delightful romp. We do have some editing glitches and timeline errors, but they are minor overall. I got caught up in the mystery, which had some great twists along the way. The climax was a bit abrupt, but it did answer my questions. As always, Samantha is a great lead, and I enjoyed watching her grow again here. Meanwhile, I’m curious what the developments here, especially at the end, will mean for the characters going forward. There were plenty of laughs to be had as I read the book. Fans old and new will enjoy this entry in the Samantha Kidd series.
You Otter Know (Part of: Double-Booked for the Holidays)
6.0
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Giant otter shifter River Almeida just wants to get away for the holidays and not deal with his mom...
MM Seasonal Paranormal Romance
Now That I Know You (Tree of Life #5)
10.0
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A Father-Daughter Genealogy Team Link Present to Past on Family Trees Cate Butler is the distant...
Family Family Trees Historical Fiction Generology Romance
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Smoke and Iron (The Great Library, #4) in Books
Jan 30, 2023
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Smoke and Iron ( The Great Library #4 )
By Rachel Caine
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The opening moves of a deadly game have begun. Jess Brightwell has put himself in direct peril, with only his wits and skill to aid him in a game of cat and mouse with the Archivist Magister of the Great Library. With the world catching fire, and words printed on paper the spark that lights rebellion, it falls to smugglers, thieves, and scholars to save a library thousands of years in the making...if they can stay alive long enough to outwit their enemies.
So it’s all coming to an end! I’m so sad to see the series end but also so grateful I found it. Book one took two attempts to get through but once I had I didn’t look back.
I can’t imagine living in a world where The Library rules what we are exposed to where it is so corrupt it causes a world war. We all expect it from religion or politics but not from books and librarians. This is such a brilliant series to sink into.
Just a shame we are at its end!!
Haunted House Murder
5.0
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Falling leaves, chill winds, shorter days . . . and spooky houses. Halloween in Maine transports...
David McK (3843 KP) rated The Truth (Discworld, #25; Industrial Revolution, #2) in Books
Sep 11, 2022
Still as good as ever!
<original review below>
So, over the weekend I watched a BBC documentary about the late, great, Sir Terry Pratchett (Terry Pratchett: Back in Black) as part of which they brought up the fact that his earliest job had been as a reporter for his local paper (and saw his first corpse a few hours later, work experience meaning something in those days ...) .
Experience that shows in this novel.
The second of the so-called Industrial Revolutions (after Moving Pictures) sub-series of the Discworld novels, this is - IMO - the first to really get into the meat of said revolution, and concerns itself with Ankh-Morporks first newspaper, alongside a plot to depose the Patrician - a character, I feel, who (whilst mostly in the background in the earlier novels) comes more to the fore in this, as do the likes of Foul Ol' Ron, Coffin Henry, The Duck Man and Gaspode
Of course, it wouldn't be a Pratchett novel without a generous portion of puns running alongside the satire, parody and memorable characters (such as, say, Otto von Chriek: the vampire with a thing for flash photography ...)
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