It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (Jan. 8, 2018)

It's Monday, What Are You Reading? is now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date.

It’s Monday!  What Are You Reading is where we gather to share what we have read this past week and what we plan to read this week.  It is a great way to network with other bloggers, see some wonderful blogs, and put new titles on your reading list.

I will be combining my YA and adult reading and purchases on this one weekly roundup. YA and middle grade reviews will still be posted on  Ms. Martin Teaches Media - my other blog.

Other Than Reading...

The past week was another bitter cold one. However, we didn't get the snow that the East Coast and the South did. Next week is supposed to have a warm up. Of course for January in northern Minnesota, that means that we will have temperatures in the 20s above zero Fahrenheit. I'll take it. I am starting to feel a little house-bound. I also have a doctor's appointment this week that will give me a chance to meet my new gastroenterologist.

The cold weather has given me lots of time to hunker down and read. I took advantage. Of course, I also added way too many to my TBR stack because I couldn't pass up the Amazon deals.

Read Last Week

Adult

• A Cold Day in Hell by Lissa Marie Redmond - police procedural with complex main character. My review will be posted on Feb. 3.
• Promise Not to Tell by Jayne Ann Krentz - her latest and a good one. My review will be posted on Jan. 25.

• Shattered Fear by Tara Thomas - romantic suspense novella. Reviewed on GoodReads and LibraryThing
• Death& the Viking's Daughter by Loretta Ross - cozy mystery that is 4th in a series but stands alone well and makes me want to read the first three. My review will be posted on Feb. 7.

Young Adult

• The Greed by Scott Bergstrom - gritty and violent story of a young woman who is a spy. My review will be posted on Jan. 31.
• Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce - new fantasy from beloved author. My review will be posted on Feb. 2.

• The Summer of Broken Things by Margaret Peterson Haddix - contemporary story about family with two interesting main characters. I got the ADE copy and needed to read it before it expired. My review is scheduled for April 6.
• The Sweetest Kind of Fate (Windy City Magic, Book 2) by Crystal Cestari - urban fantasy about a girl who talent is Matchmaking but passion is becoming a pastry chef. My review will be posted on Feb. 7.

Currently

The Cat of the Baskervilles by Vicki Delany (Feb. 13)

Next Week

I'm going to start the week with all review books.

Adult

• No One Can Know by Lucy Kerr (Feb. 13)
• The Philosopher's Flight by Tom Miller (Feb. 13)
• Murder in Bloomsbury by D. M. Quincy (Feb. 13)

Young Adult

• The Ambrose Deception by Emily Ecton (Feb. 13)
• Pitch Dark by Courtney Alameda (Feb. 20)

Reviews Posted

On Inside of a Dog:

• A Wedding at Two Love Lane by Kieran Kramer
• A Mortal Likeness by Laura Joh Rowland
• The English Wife by Lauren Willig

On Ms. Martin Teaches Media:

• Unearthed by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
• The Turncoat's Gambit by Andrea Cremer

Want to See What I Added to My Stack Last Week?

New Review

• Under the Shadows by Gwen Florio (March 8)
• Deja Moo by Kirsten Weiss (March 8)

• Pairing a Deception by Nadine Nettmann (May 8)
• Beyond the Pale by Clare O'Donnell (May 8)

New and Already Read

• Promise Not to Tell by Jayne Ann Krentz - her latest
• Neogenesis by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller - Kindle copy
• Neogenesis by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller - hardcover

Added to TBR Mountain

• Wild Card by Rachel Vincent - adds to a trilogy I'm reading
• Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz - Kindle Daily Deal
• Provenance by Ann Leckie - Kindle Daily Deal

• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs  - Kindle Daily Deal
• If Looks Could Kill by Eileen Dreyer - Kindle Daily Deal
• Heart on Fire by Amanda Bouchet - completes a trilogy I'm reading

• Something to Howl About by Christine Warren - novella companion to one of my recent review books
• The Ones Who Got Away by Roni Loren - saw it on someone's blog and had to have it
• Better Homes and Corpses by Kathleen Bridge - saw it on someone's blog and had to have it

• The Cruel Prince by Holly Black - hardcover of book I've been hearing about
• Find Her by Lisa Gardner - paperback that tells the story of one of the characters in a recent review book
• An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole - recommended by a favorite author and a Kindle Deal

• No Game for a Dame by M. Ruth Myers - Kindle Free
• Reborn by Michelle Fox - Kindle Free
• Watch Me by Cynthia Eden - Kindle Free

What was your week like?

ARC Review: The English Wife by Lauren Willig

The English Wife
Author: Lauren Willig
Publication: St. Martin's Press (January 9, 2018)

Description: From New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age, full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder.

Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor manor in England, they had a whirlwind romance in London, they have three year old twins on whom they dote, and he's recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and renamed it Illyria. Yes, there are rumors that she's having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip. But then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad. Bay's sister, Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter to uncover the truth, convinced that Bay would never have killed his wife, that it must be a third party, but the more she learns about her brother and his wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them starts to unravel. Who were her brother and his wife, really? And why did her brother die with the name George on his lips?

My Thoughts: THE ENGLISH WIFE was an amazing story. It begins at a party. Annabelle and Bay Van Duyvil are debuting their new home, designed to duplicate the home where Annabelle grew up in England, for the upper class society of New York. Things immediately go wrong when Janie Van Duyvil discovers the body of her brother who was stabbed with the knife that was part of his costume. His wife is missing and presumed dead. Janie needs to know what happened to the brother that she admired but didn't know very well.

The story has flashbacks to five years earlier when Annabelle and Bay met in London and fell in love which gives us information about the two of them that Janie doesn't have.

Janie has always existed under the thumb of her overbearing and autocratic mother. Nothing she does seems to satisfy her. Janie also shares the house with her cousin Anne who is back home because her husband is threatening to divorce her. Anne is the opposite of Janie. She is flamboyant and willing to defy her Aunt. Nonetheless, she is under her aunt's thumb as much as Janie is. Anne and Bay were closer in age growing up and they always seemed to form a team that left Janie out.

Because she feels that all of them - herself, her mother, her cousin - are being kept out of the investigation, she goes to a newspaper reporter who she had met when he visited her family kitchen saying he was visiting a cousin for some help. She asks James Burke to help her find out the truth about what happened to Bay and Annabelle. As they investigate, they fall in love but their vastly different social classes is only one of the impediments to a relationship.

This story brimmed over with the social mores of the most upper of upper classes in 1899 New York. It also brimmed over with family secrets, affairs, hidden identities, and murder. It was such an engaging story that I couldn't put it down and read late into the night and when I should have been doing other things. Fans of historical mysteries won't want to miss this wonderful story.

Favorite Quote:

Janie would have laughed if it hadn't been so miserable, all of it. To be reduced to reading the scandal sheets for word of one's own family.

Somewhere along the sides of the frozen river, they search went on for Annabelle's body. Or so they presumed. Their sensibilities, it seemed, were too delicate to be imposed upon by the police. Whatever they knew of their own tragedy came at third hand. They were as starved for news, all of them, as isolated as Robinson Crusoe on his island.

I received this one in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley. You can buy your copy here.

Friday Memes: The English Wife by Lauren Willig

Happy Friday everybody!

Book Beginnings on Friday is now hosted by Rose City Reader. The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice. Check out the links above for the rules and for the posts of the participants each week. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

Beginning:

Cold Spring, 1899
Twelfth Night

"They say he's bankrupted himself rebuilding the house--all for her, of course." Carrie Rheinlander's voice carried along the high, arched ceiling. "And then there are those frightful stories about...oh, Janie, I didn't see you there."

No one ever did.

Friday 56:

The official notice had arrived hours later, presented by a harried Mr. Tilden. It had been easier than Janie expected to pretend she knew nothing about it, largely because no one ever imagined she might. As always, she sat in a chair a little behind the others, draped in crepe and dullness. Janie Van Duyvil, who never did anything improper.

This week I am reading The English Wife by Lauren Willig. I got this eARC from NetGalley. Here is the description from Amazon:

From New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age, full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder.

Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor manor in England, they had a whirlwind romance in London, they have three year old twins on whom they dote, and he's recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and renamed it Illyria. Yes, there are rumors that she's having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip. But then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad. Bay's sister, Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter to uncover the truth, convinced that Bay would never have killed his wife, that it must be a third party, but the more she learns about her brother and his wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them starts to unravel. Who were her brother and his wife, really? And why did her brother die with the name George on his lips?

ARC Review: A Mortal Likeness by Laura Joh Rowland

A Mortal Likeness
Author: Laura Joh Rowland
Series: Victorian Mystery (Book 2)
Publication: Crooked Lane Books (January 9, 2018)

Description: A photographer in 1889 London, Miss Sarah Bain runs a private detective agency with her friends, Lord Hugh Staunton and former street urchin Mick O’Reilly. Their sole credential is that they solved the Jack the Ripper case, a secret they can never tell because they did it outside the boundaries of the law. Their new big case arises when a wealthy banker, Sir Gerald Mariner, posts a handsome reward for finding his missing infant. All of London joins in the search. But Sarah has an advantage―a photograph she took during a routine surveillance job, which unexpectedly reveals a clue about the kidnapping.

After Sir Gerald hires Sarah, Hugh, and Mick to find his son, they move into his opulent mansion and discover a photograph of baby Robin. It eerily resembles postmortem photographs taken of deceased children posed to look as if they’re alive. Was the kidnapping real, or a cover-up for a murder? Is the perpetrator a stranger, or someone inside the troubled Mariner family? The case hits close to home for Sarah as it intertwines with her search for her father, who disappeared after he became the prime suspect in a murder twenty-three years ago. She finds herself on the wrong side of the law, which threatens her budding romance with Police Constable Barrett. But Sarah must uncover the truth about Robin’s kidnapping, and her own family, before her past catches up to her in A Mortal Likeness, the gripping follow-up to award-winning author Laura Joh Rowland’s The Ripper’s Shadow.

My Thoughts: Photographer Sarah Bain and disgraced Lord Hugh Staunton have formed an investigations agency. They have experience because they solved the Jack the Ripper case in THE RIPPER'S SHADOW. Unfortunately their methods require them to keep their success a secret. They are struggling to find clients and build their reputation because Hugh's family has only given him a year's worth of allowance and then they are on their own. While they are trying to get evidence on an adulterer, the big case in town is the kidnapping of baby Robin Mariner, the son of the very wealthy and influential Sir Gerald Mariner.

An introduction from Hugh's father leads to Sir Gerald hiring them to investigate the kidnapping. Sir Gerald makes them sign a non-disclosure agreement and then brings them to his home to investigate the residents. Sir Gerald believes the kidnapping was an inside job. They find a wide variety of suspects when they arrive. Evidence in the last photo of the mother and child lead Sarah to believe that there was something wrong with Robin. She even suspects that the photo might show an already dead child since taking that sort of photo was a thing in Victorian times. They wonder if Sir Gerald's wife Lady Alexandra might have done away with the defective infant. Or perhaps Sir Gerald's older son Tristan did away with him since his father had made Robin his heir rather than himself. Then there is Sir Gerald's teenage daughter Olivia who seems to have been jealous of the baby who she feels stole her father's affections.

Thrown into the mix of suspects is Lady Alexandra's sister and the psychic she would like to run away with. Then there is John Pierce who is Sir Gerald's chief aide but who resents him for stealing Lady Alexandra from him. Or maybe Sir Gerald himself had something to do with his child's kidnapping.

All the tangled relationships Sarah, Hugh and their young assistant Mick discover bring up issues for each of the detectives. Sarah has a mystery in her own past having to do with her father who disappeared when she was nine. Police reports she was recently given by her new love interest Barrett seem to lead to the fact that he was a rapist and murderer and fled to avoid the law. One of the photos she took while trailing the suspected adulterer may be a photo of her father. She has very mixed feeling about looking for the father she still loves. Meanwhile Hugh has been disowned, disgraced, and lost his position in society since he has been outed as a homosexual but he is attracted to Sir Gerald's son Tristan who may or may not return his affection.

This was a nicely twisty mystery will all sorts of secrets revealed. It had a nicely developed historical setting. Fans of historical mysteries will enjoy this new adventure for Sarah and Sir Hugh.

Favorite Quote:

I'm just as eager to think that Sir Gerald is on the level as Hugh is to think the same of Tristan, and nothing I've said has changed Mick's mind about Lady Alexandra. That all three of us are unfortunately lacking in objectivity bodes ill for our investigation.

I received this one in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley. You can buy your copy here.

ARC Review: A Wedding at Two Love Lane by Kieran Kramer

A Wedding at Two Love Lane
Author: Kieran Kramer
Series: Two Love Lane (Book 2)
Publication: St. Martin's Paperbacks (January 2, 2018)

Description: Never say never when it comes to love.

Greer Jones has made a real name for herself at the elegant matchmaking agency Two Love Lane. For a lot of reasons—including a past engagement she broke off—practical tech expert Greer is more interested in the business of love than the experience of it, but she can’t help but covet a gorgeous wedding gown that’s the prize in an upcoming cocktail-party contest. In a moment of brazen inspiration, Greer asks a handsome Brit she’s only just met to accompany her to the party. He agrees—and Greer believes her date is a starving artist. Little does she know the truth. . .

Ford Smith, as he calls himself, is actually Stanford Elliott Wentworth Smythe, the Eighth Baron of Wickshire. Fresh off a breakup with a money-grubbing siren who deceived him all the way to the altar, Ford has no desire to fall in love—especially with Greer who, like the desired wedding gown, is beautiful but only skin-deep. But soon Ford realizes that there’s more to Greer than meets the eye. Her professionalism is matched only by her passion for life and love. . .and, best of all, she has no idea that he’s to the manor born. Could it be that true love is priceless after all?

My Thoughts: This romance was an entertaining story. Greer works for a matchmaker agency in Charleston, SC. She is the computer wiz and is logical, practical, and down to earth. At least she was until she stopped in at a charity auction and fell in love with a wedding gown with a history. She bid for it but lost to a failed matchmaking client who has been carrying a grudge against Greer since the agency failed to find a match for him.

Sitting next to Greer at the auction is this British dude in a plaid jacket who catches her attention. Ford Smith is an artist who has come to Charleston to get over a broken heart since his fiance was caught cheating just before they could walk down the aisle. Ford is also an artist who needs one more painting for an upcoming show that could jump his career to a new level. Ford is hiding the fact that his is a wealthy Baron from everyone. He takes one look at Greer and decides that she will be the perfect subject for his painting.

When Pierre Simmons, the failed client and owner of a fashionable women's clothing store, decides to run a contest to gain publicity for his new bridal department, Greer decides to enter. She doesn't have a boyfriend, let alone a fiance, but the rules don't say she has to have one. However, to win any of Pierre's challenges, she needs a partner. Greer asks Ford to be her partner and she will pose for him in exchange. They grow closer as they take part in the challenges but neither is looking for a romance. Ford has his broken engagement and a ex-fiance who is pregnant with twins who might be Ford's children. Greer is looking for true love and seems to be expecting it to just drop into her lap.

There were a lot of things going on in this story. Greer had turned down a marriage proposal from a boy she grew up with and her parents are still guilting her about it. Now he and his new fiance have come to Charleston and end up in the same contest as Greer. Greer is also helping a client get her career as a designer off the ground and helping her reconnect with the man she loves. Ford has family issues with an older brother who is an addict in addition to his pregnant ex-fiance. He also suffers from a lot of doubt about his talent as an artist.

Fans of romances will enjoy this story.

Favorite Quote:

He laughed. "Just this morning, you were a stranger in a coffee house."

"And you were a man in a plaid jacket who was highly distracting at an auction."

"What are we going to be to each other now?" he asked her softly.

And they both knew: lovers.

I received this one in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley. You can buy your copy here.

First Paragraph/Teaser Tuesday: A Mortal Likeness by Laura Joh Rowland

Every Tuesday Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea posted the first paragraph of a book she is reading or planning to read. In 2018, Vicki from I'd Rather Be at the Beach is taking over this meme.Here's mine:

The train thunders along the track, through rain, fog, and smoke. In my seat by the window, I fidget with the camera and leather satchel on my lap. Beside me, Hugh pages through a newspaper he's already read twice since we left Victoria Station at ten this morning. He checks his pocket watch; it's twelve fifteen now.

 

Link up here. It is very easy to play along:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! Everyone loves Teaser Tuesday.

Here's mine:

"Bruises on her neck," says the older plainclothes officer. He's stout with a grey beard. He points at the purplish marks on the woman's white skin. "She was strangled. Probably after he killed the man." 

This week I chose A Mortal Likeness by Laura Joh Rowland. This one is from my review stack and is a historical mystery I got from NetGalley. Here is the description from Amazon:

A photographer in 1889 London, Miss Sarah Bain runs a private detective agency with her friends, Lord Hugh Staunton and former street urchin Mick O’Reilly. Their sole credential is that they solved the Jack the Ripper case, a secret they can never tell because they did it outside the boundaries of the law. Their new big case arises when a wealthy banker, Sir Gerald Mariner, posts a handsome reward for finding his missing infant. All of London joins in the search. But Sarah has an advantage―a photograph she took during a routine surveillance job, which unexpectedly reveals a clue about the kidnapping.

After Sir Gerald hires Sarah, Hugh, and Mick to find his son, they move into his opulent mansion and discover a photograph of baby Robin. It eerily resembles postmortem photographs taken of deceased children posed to look as if they’re alive. Was the kidnapping real, or a cover-up for a murder? Is the perpetrator a stranger, or someone inside the troubled Mariner family? The case hits close to home for Sarah as it intertwines with her search for her father, who disappeared after he became the prime suspect in a murder twenty-three years ago. She finds herself on the wrong side of the law, which threatens her budding romance with Police Constable Barrett. But Sarah must uncover the truth about Robin’s kidnapping, and her own family, before her past catches up to her in A Mortal Likeness, the gripping follow-up to award-winning author Laura Joh Rowland’s The Ripper’s Shadow.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (Jan. 1, 2018)

It's Monday, What Are You Reading? is now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date.

It’s Monday!  What Are You Reading is where we gather to share what we have read this past week and what we plan to read this week.  It is a great way to network with other bloggers, see some wonderful blogs, and put new titles on your reading list.

I will be combining my YA and adult reading and purchases on this one weekly roundup. YA and middle grade reviews will still be posted on  Ms. Martin Teaches Media - my other blog.

Other Than Reading...

Happy New Year! I hope everyone has a wonderful 2018.

Last week was quiet but very cold. Our high temperatures haven't got above zero for more than a few minutes all week. This morning the actual air temperature when I got up was -17. As I'm writing this at 10:30 Saturday morning we have a bright and sunny -14. Luckily, I have no reason to leave the house and no plans to do so.

I've been concentrating on reading this past week. I've also set up my blog calendar through February and written and scheduled the posts I could do ahead. I've got my book reviews as ready as they can be before I've actually read the book. I've read 4 of my February review books but have 20 more to go.

New Year's Eve update:

I'm sitting here Sunday morning in my "So Many Books So Little Time" tee-shirt and thought it would be a good time to look at my bookish life in 2017.

Starting at LibraryThing, I see that I added 414 books to my collection in 2017. 317 of them were Kindle books. The first book I added on Jan. 3 was Amanda Bouchet's Breath of Fire. The most recent book added was Anne Leckie's Provenance. Two hundred eleven of my 2017 books are still unread. Of those 414, 186 were review books. 141 of the review books came from NetGalley and 9 from Edelweiss. The rest from publishers like Macmillan and Bloomsbury which still send me the occasional print copy. I have 45 books in my Review Pending collection.

Looking at my Google Sheets Reading Log for 2017, I see that I read 265 books. GoodReads says more but I read some in 2016 that I forgot to enter until after Jan. 1 and I couldn't put them on my 2016 list. 96 were mine and 166 were for review which doesn't add up to 265 which is kind of baffling since books should either be mine or be for review. Looking back, I see that I read 3 books from my High School Media Center collection in March. Victory! The numbers match. Looks like I need to add a Borrowed column to my spreadsheet.

Looking at my Google Sheets Review Books, I see that I reviewed 165 2017 releases and have already got 21 2018 reviews ready to go.

All in all, a pretty productive year.

Read Last Week

• Final Siege by Scarlett Cole - Nice romantic suspense title. My review will be posted on Jan. 27.
• Perfect Scoundrels by Ally Carter - TBR mountain since Oct. 20, 2014. Great conclusion to the Heist Society trilogy. My review will be posted on Jan. 24.

• Layover by Amy Andelson & Emily Meyer - YA contemporary for review. Nice story about kids who don't want to lose their family in a divorce. My review will be posted on Jan. 26.
• This Fallen Prey by Kelley Armstrong - next Rockton thriller tells what happens when a serial killer is brought there. Nice twisty plot. My review will be posted on Jan. 30.

• Survive the Night by Katie Ruggle - third in Rocky Mountain K-9 romantic suspense series. Most awkward romantic couple I've ever read adds humor to an otherwise very suspenseful story. My review will be posted on Jan. 31.
• Look for Me by Lisa Gardner - Excellent mystery. My first D. D. Warren but not my last. My review will be posted on Feb. 1.

Lake Silence by Anne Bishop was as wonderful as I was hoping it would be. Set in the world of the Others but starring new characters, this book had great worldbuilding, fascinating characters, and an exciting plot. My review will be posted on March 3.

Currently

The Greed by Scott Bergstrom is a YA review book thriller that is the sequel to The Cruelty.

Next Week

Review books will fill most of my February, these are the first four on the stack.

• A Cold Day in Hell by Lissa Marie Redmond (Feb. 8)
• Death & the Viking's Daughter by Loretta Ross (Feb. 8

• Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce (Feb. 6)
• The Sweetest Kind of Fate (Windy City Magic) by Crystal Cestari (Feb. 13)

Reviews Posted

On Inside of a Dog:

• Neogenesis by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
• Black Star Renegades by Michael Moreci

• Death Below Stairs by Jennifer Ashley
• Dragon Blood by Eileen Wilks

On Ms. Martin Teaches Media:

• Sweet Legacy by Tera Lynn Childs
• Venturess by Betsy Cornwell

Want to See What I Added to My Stack Last Week?

Bought - Everything except Royal Bastards was a Kindle Daily Deal. Royal Bastards comes before one of the books on my review stack and I like to start a series at the beginning.

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Royal Bastards by Andrew Shvarts
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

• Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
• The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
• Warcross by Marie Lu

• Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
• Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab
• The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

Free:

• Magic of Thieves by C. Greenwood
• Betrayal of Thieves by C. Greenwood
• Silver by Cheree Lynn Alsop

• I Have a Secret by Cheryl Bradshaw
• Agnes Baron in TAWAS by Madison Johns
• Fire in Frost by Alicia Rades

Review:

• The Broken Girls by Simone St. James (March 20)
• Lord of the Pies by Nell Hampton (April 10)

• Better Off Read by Nora Page (May 8)
• The Body in the Ballroom by R. J. Koreto (June 12)

What was your week like?