This week, my publisher sent me the cover for the second edition of Deep as a Tomb, the story of the son of a king and the daughter of a would-be rebel who wind up fostering together in the same household with lots of opportunity to be at cross purposes. The book is a prequel to the Wind Reader series. This new edition will be out June 30, but you can preorder the paperback now, directly from the publisher who’s…
I’m working on a project to read a semi-finalist in each category of Goodreads’ Best Book of the Year contest. The winners of the contest are listed here. If you click back through my posts, you can see what I have to say about Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mysteries and Thrillers, Romance, Romantasy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, YA Fantasy, YA Fiction, Horror, and Debut Novel. This post reviews a book from the Non-Fiction category. I don’t read much non-fiction, so I was looking…
I’m two-thirds of the way through my project to read a semi-finalist in each category of Goodreads’ Best Book of the Year contest. The winners of the contest are listed here. This post reviews a book from the Debut Novel category. I’d already read and reviewed two books from this category: Weyward (reviewed in Historical Fiction) and The Wishing Game (reviewed in Fiction). For my new book, I chose I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane. The Story…
I’m working on a Goodreads project, reading a semi-finalist from each of the fifteen categories Goodreads uses for its Best Book of the Year Award. If you click back through my last eight blog entries, you can see reviews of the books I read in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery and Thriller, Romance, Romantasy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror. When I started, readers were still voting. Since then, Goodreads has announced the winners. I was dismayed to realize I hadn’t read any of…
I’m working on a Goodreads project, reading a semi-finalist from each of the fifteen categories Goodreads uses for its Best Book of the Year Award. If you click back through my last seven blog entries, you can see reviews of the books I read in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery and Thriller, Romance, Romantasy, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. When I started, readers were still voting. Since then, Goodreads has announced the winners. I don’t usually read Horror, so I wasn’t surprised I hadn’t…
I’m working on a Goodreads project, reading a book from each of the fifteen categories Goodreads uses for its Best Book of the Year Award. If you click back through my last six blog entries, you can see reviews of the books I read in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery and Thriller, Romance, Romantasy, and Fantasy. When I started, readers were still voting. Since then, Goodreads has announced the winners. I’ve now reached the Science Fiction category. I’d already read Children of Time…
I’m working on a Goodreads project, reading a book from each of the fifteen categories Goodreads uses in its Best Book of the Year Award contest. If you click back through my last five blog entries, you can see reviews of the books I read in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery and Thriller, Romance, and Romantasy. When I started, readers were still voting. Since then, Goodreads has announced the winners. I’ve now reached the sixth category, Fantasy. To my surprise, I…
I’ve reached the Romance category–Part Four of my project to read a new book from each of the fifteen categories in Goodreads’ Best Book of the Year Award. I reviewed books from the previous three categories here (Fiction), here (Historical Fiction), and here (Mystery and Thriller). From the Romance category, I chose to read Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood. My Romance Confession Before I review the book, I should confess that, even though Romance is the best seller of any…
I’m working on a project in which I read a book from each of the fifteen categories Goodreads uses in its best books of the year contest. The first category was fiction. You can see my comments on that category here. The second category was Historical Fiction. My comments are here. The third category was Mystery and Thriller. I’d already read The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman. But by the rules of my project, I had to choose a new…
I’m working on a project in which I read a book from each of the fifteen categories Goodreads uses in its best books of the year contest. The first category was fiction. You can see my comments on that category here. The second category was Historical Fiction. I had already read Weyward by Emilia Hart. But by the rules I set for my project, I needed to choose a new book too, and I selected Go as a River by…