I’m not sure pretty is even the correct word for this bunch of covers. The West Passage takes that prize, although there honestly isn’t a lot of competition. Very much on the other hand, there are three books in this stack that I am eagerly anticipating, one of which I didn’t even know was going to exist until I saw it on Edelweiss.

That would be The Daughters’ War by Christopher Buehlman, the unexpected PREQUEL to The Blacktongue Thief. Not that I wouldn’t still love to see the SEQUEL that story is begging for sometime soon – although not as soon as I’d hoped since this came first. I’ve also been eagerly awaiting Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard, as I said in my review of her Seven of Infinities a couple of weeks ago.

I don’t know about you, but I’m absolutely looking forward to not just one but TWO three-day weekends in a row. There should be plenty of time over the holidays for lots of wonderful reading.

Happy Holidays INDEED!

For Review:
A Body on the Doorstep (London Ladies’ Murder Club #1) by Marty Wingate (audio)
The Daughters’ War (Blacktongue #0) by Christopher Buehlman
Gravity Lost (Ambit’s Run #2) by L.M. Sagas
In the Shadow of the Fall (Guardians of the Gods #1) by Tobi Ogundiran
Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11) by Iona Whishaw
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children #9) by Seanan McGuire (audio)
Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard
Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi
The West Passage by Jared Pechaček

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children #5) by Seanan McGuire (audio)

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I keep playing with these stacks because I keep expecting that one of these holiday week stacks is going to be empty – and then what? But so far, there’s always been something. Actually, there are a couple more somethings than are showing here because there are some books coming up next spring that may have ARCs available but whose cover art just isn’t ready yet.

The book on this list I am absolutely more looking forward to is People in Glass Houses by Jayne Castle. I love her, well her and her alter egos Amanda Quick and Jayne Ann Krentz, and their combined Arcane Society/Harmony ‘verse. The Harmony books in particular are always a treat because I love good SFR and it’s among the best.

I’m also looking forward to, albeit with some trepidation, Funny Story by Emily Henry. The first book of hers that I read was Book Lovers, and I loved it, so I picked up Happy Place, which was good but I didn’t fall into my own happy place nearly as much. I’m wondering where Funny Story is going to fall on that spectrum. We’ll see.

For Review:
The Fall of Waterstone (Black Land’s Bane #2) by Lilith Saintcrow
Follow the Stars Home by Diane C. McPhail
Funny Story by Emily Henry
A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh
Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse
People in Glass Houses (Harmony #17) by Jayne Castle
Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland

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This stack of covers isn’t so much pretty as it is evocative. The Barker & Llewelyn covers do an excellent job of invoking the time and place and projecting the sense of dark mystery, the London Ladies’ Murder Club covers pretty much scream the 1920s while the cover of Paladin’s Faith fits right in with the rest of the Saint of Steel series.

Speaking of Paladin’s Faith, that’s the book in this stack that I’m MOST looking forward to. I’m planning to treat myself with it over the holidays.

For Review:
A Body on the Doorstep (London Ladies’ Murder Club #1) by Marty Wingate
A Body at the Séance (London Ladies’ Murder Club #2) by Marty Wingate
Ghosts of Honolulu by Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Jr. (audio)
Lore of the Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Blood is Blood (Barker & Llewelyn #10) by Will Thomas
Hell Bay (Barker & Llewelyn #8) by Will Thomas
Old Scores (Barker & Llewelyn #9) by Will Thomas
Paladin’s Faith (Saint of Steel #4) by T. Kingfisher
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (audio)

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Not a lot of review copies in this stack, but I’ve clearly given in, or leaned in, or both, to my love of the Barker & Llewelyn series and am in the process of collecting the ones I don’t have eARCs of, which is unfortunately most of them. So there’s that. The prettiest cover ‘award’ certainly goes to A Botanist’s Guide to Society and Secrets, but all the covers in that series have been pretty – even if the plants and flowers pictured thereon are of the deadly and poisonous variety.

Normal Women is a book that made my curiosity bump itch, because we all have ideas and beliefs about exactly what roles average, “normal” women played in history, and I’m hoping to learn something of how much of that popular opinion is remotely correct. We’ll see.

For Review:
A Botanist’s Guide to Society and Secrets (Saffron Everleigh #3) by Kate Khavari
The Hero She Needs (Unbroken Heroes #1) by Anna Hackett
Normal Women by Philippa Gregory

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
The Black Hand (Barker & Llewellyn #5) by Will Thomas
Fatal Enquiry (Barker & Llewellyn #6) by Will Thomas
The Hellfire Conspiracy (Barker & Llewellyn #4) by Will Thomas
The Limehouse Text (Barker & Llewellyn #3) by Will Thomas
Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes

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First and most definitely foremost, I hope that everyone had a GREAT turkey day, whether there was turkey on the menu or not!

For a work week that was only THREE days long, a surprising amount of stuff showed up on Edelweiss and NetGalley. Which I am, of course, VERY thankful for!

After absolutely LOVING the first book in the Barker & Llewelyn series, Some Danger Involved, earlier this week, of course I bought the next book in the series! But the book I’m also really looking forward to in this stack is Murder at the White Palace, the 6th book in the Sparks & Bainbridge historical mystery series. That series has been terrific from the very first book, The Right Sort of Man, so I’m eager to see what happens to our intrepid duo next.

The book I’m most curious about is Pets and the City. It’s nonfiction, the autobiographical account of a vet who makes house calls in Manhattan – as the full title clearly states. I’m curious because this is not the first book that I’ve seen telling that story. Dr. Louis J. Camuti wrote his tales of calling on tails and fins and fangs in Manhattan back in 1980 under the hilariously true title of All My Patients Are Under the Bed. I remember those tales and those patients very fondly, and still have a copy of the book – assuming the cats haven’t either chewed it to scrap or peed on it somewhere along the way. But all of that means I’m really curious to see how much as changed and how much remains the same. For example, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that all of Dr. Attas’ patients are ALSO under the bed!

For Review:
The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang
Fathomfolk (Drowned World #1) by Eliza Chan
Foul Days (Witch’s Compendium of Monsters #1) by Genoveva Dimova
In Our Stars (Doomed Earth #1) by Jack Campbell
Murder at the White Palace (Sparks & Bainbridge #6) by Allison Montclair
Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian by Amy Attas
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park (audio)
A True Account by Katherine Howe (audio)

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
To Kingdom Come (Barker & Llewelyn #2) by Will Thomas

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