North to Paradise by Ousman Umar

Translated by Kevin Gerry Dunn I have read quite a few books about the refugee crisis from different countries just this year. This book has a more unique ending than a few others. The entire book feels like a translated work, this being one of the rare occasions that that is actually a bonus.The bewilderment…

Autumn by Ali Smith

I borrowed this book a long time ago and returned it without reading it. On yet another library trip, I ended up wanting to give it another shot and actually read it on my next train journey.I was a little surprised by the content. Somehow, given the cover and the blurb, I was expecting short…

The Murders at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley

This is one of those rare books published for the first time despite having been written long ago. The only others like this that I have had the opportunity to come across were old classic mysteries.I have read a few of the author's works and was quite surprised to see one so different in her…

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

Narrated by: Samara MacLaren I had both digital and audio copies of this book and decided to listen to it. It was further down my list of audiobooks, but it managed to make its way up, and I heard it to the end in very few sittings, something I rarely end up doing (continuously, that…

The Truth by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #25)

This is the last of my rereads of Terry Pratchett for a while. Not because I do not want to read any more of them, but because I have no more to pick up in hand. I may run into a book I have not read or reviewed on the blog, and then things may…

Chef’s Kiss by Jarrett Melendez, Danica Brine, Hank Jones, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

This book is, in its essence, a coming-of-age book for our lead character with some really great art.There are multiple authors mentioned, and I am not exactly sure how that worked, but it felt quite seamless. We have four friends who have all finished their undergraduate together (one decides to go back for more), and…

Death at the Manor by Katherine Schellman

I have read and reviewed the first book in the series: here. I am quite surprised at how I wrote it, I liked my own writing when I went back to look at it before I sat down with this. My review of the first book of the series was a lot more interesting than…

Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

I have read and reviewed the previous book on the blog : here I picked this book up because I saw it on the library shelf (like I do with most of my library reads). I was not enthralled by the first in this series, mostly because I think the author and the plot are…