The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell

Of late, I have been having some luck with wacky stories. This format includes a contemporary setup, with fantastical creatures leaking into the story when you least expect it. This was no exception. The conversations' randomness was dialled down a little compared to others of this ilk, and people tried to keep their cool even…

The City That Barks And Roars by J.T. Bird

The first thing that this story will remind you of is Zootopia. This is something that the blurb itself proclaims. If you did not like the movie or any of its ilk, this might not be the book for you. The one place it diverges from the generalization is where it provides a spiritual/mythological concept…

Hostile Takeover (Vale Investigation #1) by Cristelle Comby

Sometimes I take a chance with a book that looks and whose blurb sounds completely random. Of those sometimes, I have fun with very few. I had fun reading this. A few pages into it, I felt like I was reading a contemporary version of The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, which I read quite…

Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer #2) by Laini Taylor

I have read and reviewed the previous book of the series: here I read the first book a long time ago (actually I read this one a while back as well and have only delayed typing this up). I was not sure I was ever going to find and read it till I saw it…

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

My reviews and reading have taken a back seat as I have drifted back into a few projects that I intended to tie up before the year ends. I started these projects quite a few months ago and as such need very little time to wrap them up individually, I doubt I will reach my…

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

I have seen this book featured on many, many blogs in the past year or so and never actually did anything about it. I have always been a fan of retold fairytales. I remember writing a few myself in a short-lived creative writing class, I took one summer in high school. I did not realise…

The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker by Lauren James

When I venture into fare unusual for me, I end up with some good surprises and sometimes not. This book was a miss for me. The only reason I finished the book was that the writing was nice, and the imagery created by it was very vivid. The characters, for the most part, were likeable.Harriet,…

Investigation, Mediation, Vindication (The Many Travails of John Smith, #1) by Chris Tullbane

Book is still available to request on NetGalley till Oct 22nd There are weird and wacky stories, and there are those that work well only in that exact combination. When I started reading this book, I found it entertaining. The deeper I got into the story, the narration had me laughing out loud so many…