IMNSHO (In my not so humble opinion) – at least when it comes to book covers, there are two sets of pretty covers here. One set consists of The Lost Bookshop and The Story Collector, because they are both pictures of very pretty fictional libraries, and well, if we didn’t all like books we wouldn’t be here to talk about them. The other set contains the outer space covers, How to Steal a Galaxy and Rumor Has It. Not only are they both pretty science fiction covers, but they are both parts of really good series that I can’t wait to get back into!

And I’m curious as all get out about Death of the Author, because I love the author and the book sounds like it’s going to be really meta. So I’m hoping for good things but I also have my fingers crossed because meta can go all sorts of places and not all of them work for me. I’m worried it’s going to be like Magpie Murders for me, a story within a story where I adored the story within but wasn’t nearly so thrilled with the framing story wrapped around it. We’ll see.

For Review:
Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Wayward Children #10) by Seanan McGuire
At the Fount of Creation (Guardian of the Gods #2) by Tobi Ogundiran
Cabinet of Curiosities by Aaron Mahnke
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
The Gates of Gaza by Amir Tibon
How to Steal a Galaxy (Chaotic Orbits #2) by Beth Revis
Rumor Has It (Disco Space Opera #3) by Cat Rambo
The Sound of a Thousand Stars by Rachel Robbins
The Story Collector by Evie Woods

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The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

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You know what? They’re all pretty this time around. They’re just not all pretty the same, because the styles and the genres are so different. I’m intrigued by several, also for entirely different reasons.

The cover of Echo gives me the shivers, but then, that’s very definitely a wintry Chicago in the background and that’s exactly what Chicago DOES in the winter. At first, I thought the cover of We Solve Murders wasn’t all that, BUT, it’s very much part of the old-school mystery cover style – and there’s a cat. The cover of Bindle Punk Jefe fits right in with the first book in the series, Bindle Punk Bruja, and does an excellent job of presenting the character and the time period in a single image. I’m really curious about The Fourth Consort because I loved his first three books (Mickey7, etc.) and I’m intrigued by And the Mighty Will Fall because I loved the first book in the series (A Pale Light in the Black), liked the second (Hold Fast Through the Fire), and unfortunately bounced hard off the third (The Ghosts of Trappist), so I’m wondering where this one will – ahem – fall.

For Review:
And the Mighty Will Fall (NeoG #4) by K.B. Wagers
Bindle Punk Jefe (Bindle Punk #2) by Desideria Mesa
Echo (Detective Harriet Foster #3) by Tracy Clark
Exiled by Iron (Tainted Blood Duology #2) by Ehigbor Okosun
The Fourth Consort by Edward Ashton
The Great Library Of Tomorrow (Tomorrowland #1) by Rosalia Aguilar Solace
The Mountain Crown (Crowns of Ishia #1) by Karin Lowachee
The Scarlet Throne (False Goddess #1) by Amy Leow
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

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A relatively short stack this week, but still with PLENTY of interesting books on tap! YAY!

The prettiest covers look to be It Takes Two to Torah, Key Lime Sky and A Vengeful King Rises – with an honorable mention for The Hero She Craves.

Ahem. Definitely ahem.

This is a week where it’s damn difficult to decide which are the books I’m most interested in, but it’s a toss-up between Guard the East Flank, The Most Human and A Vengeful King Rises for entirely different reasons. Buchman is returning to the characters of his first military romance series, Night Stalkers. Barnes is taking the research into the Regency era that forms the foundation of her usual romances and turning it to mystery/suspense in the vein of the Sebastian St. Cyr and Wrexford & Sloane series(es). Meanwhile the subtitle of Adam Nimoy’s book about his father Leonard gives this reader at least the impression that the son had as much difficulty reconciling himself with his father’s famous alter ego as the man himself did.

We’ll certainly see in the weeks ahead!

For Review:
The Animal is Chemical by Hadara Bar-Nadav
Becoming Janet by Janet Singer Applefield
Guard the East Flank (Night Stalkers Reload #1) by M.L. Buchman
The Hero She Craves (Unbroken Heroes #3) by Anna Hackett
It Takes Two to Torah by Abigail Pogrebin and Rabbi Dov Linzer
Key Lime Sky by Al Hess
The Most Human by Adam Nimoy (audio and ebook)
A Vengeful King Rises (House of Croft #1) by Sophie Barnes
Who Really Wrote the Bible by William M. Schniedewind

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Hell for Hire (Tear Down Heaven #1) by Rachel Aaron

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What have we here? A stack of brand-new books – and not an overly tall stack at that. YAY!

There are more pretty covers than not this time around – although there are a couple of boring ones to balance them out. (We’ll just not say which ones they are so as not to embarrass them.) The prettiest covers, IMHO, are All the Water in the World and Saving Susy Sweetchild. Bonded in Death is an interesting cover, mostly because it looks like that long-running series has decided to change cover designs for this 60th entry in the series.

The book I’m most curious about is The Last Dangerous Visions, because that book has been in the works since the mid-1970s (!) The original editor, Harlan Ellison, died in 2018, many of the authors whose stories were supposed to have appeared have also died, and many of the stories intended for the book have been published elsewhere in the long interim. I’m curious as hell to see what finally made it into the book!

For Review:
All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
Bonded in Death (In Death #60) by J.D. Robb
A Change of Place (Night’s Edge #3) by Julie E. Czerneda
For Such a Time as This by Elliot Cosgrove
The Last Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison and J. Michael Straczynski
A Monsoon Rising (Hurricane Wars #2) by Thea Guanzon
The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
Saving Susy Sweetchild (Silver Screen Historical Mysteries #3) by Barbara Hambly
Splinter Effect (Splinter Effect #1) by Andrew Ludington
Two Wheels to Freedom by Arthur J. Magida

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Books and Broadswords, Volume One by Jessie Mihalik

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I picked up the Colleen Gleason series because I got reminded that Colleen Gleason is a pseudonym for Colleen Cambridge – or the other way around. So far I’ve adored her Julia Child mysteries, the series that started with Mastering the Art of French Murder, so the idea of the same marvelous voice – the author’s not Child’s – in a paranormal series tickled by reading funny bone. Or I certainly hope it will.

The pretty books this time around are The Forbidden Book, which thankfully isn’t, The Republic of Salt, and Songs for the Brokenhearted. There are several graphic novels this time around, but their covers are more interesting than they are pretty.

For Review:
Cartoonists Against Racism by Rachel Medoff and Craig Yoe
The Forbidden Book by Sacha Lamb
The Light of Learning by Glenn Dynner
Lolita at Leonard’s of Great Neck and Other Stories from the Before Times by Shira Dicker
My Youth and Early Deaths by Allen Stein
Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz by Ari Richter
No Road Leading Back by Chris Heath
Once There Was Warsaw by Ber Kutsher, translated by Gerald Marcus
Postwar Stories by Rachel Gordan
The Republic of Salt (Mirror Realm Cycle #2) by Ariel Kaplan
Rimonim by Aurora Levins Morales
Songs for the Brokenhearted by Ayelet Tsabari
The Treasure Hunters Club by Tom Ryan

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Hexes, Exes and Codexes (Three Tomes Bookshop #4) by Colleen Gleason
Purses, Curses & Hearses (Three Tomes Bookshop #2) by Colleen Gleason
Stakes, Cakes and Mandrakes (Three Tomes Bookshop #3) by Colleen Gleason
Tomes, Scones & Crones (Three Tomes Bookshop #1) by Colleen Gleason

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I think it’s pretty clear why those Conrad the Cat Detective mysteries by LT Shearer are in the stack. How could I resist? The covers aren’t particularly pretty, but I never can resist a good mystery that features felines, whether in starring or supporting roles. We’ll just have to see if this one lives up to the original The Cat Who series by Lilian Jackson Braun.

The prettiest cover here might be The Phoenix Keeper, although there are several possible contenders, depending on beauty being in the eye of the beholder and all that. The Stolen Queen would also be a strong possibility, both as pretty and as interesting. It has just a touch of Elizabeth Peters/Amelia Peabody to it, so I’m very curious as I’m still looking for something to scratch that reading itch!

For Review:
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Breath of Oblivion (Astra Black #2) by Maurice Broaddus
The Cat Who Caught a Killer (Conrad the Cat Detective #1) by L.T. Shearer
The Cat Who Cracked a Cold Case (Conrad the Cat Detective #3) by L.T. Shearer
The Cat Who Solved Three Murders (Conrad the Cat Detective #2) by L.T. Shearer
Fangs So Bright & Deadly (Mythwoven #2) by Piper J. Drake
Ghosts of a Holy War by Yardena Schwartz
The Little Liar by Mitch Albom
The Lotus Empire (Burning Kingdoms #3) by Tasha Suri
The Moonstone Covenant by Jill Hammer
The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean
The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis
The Vampire of Kings Street by Asha Greyling

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