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Dorothy Gentleman wakes up not in her body and needs to quickly solve a murder on the interstellar ship that she works as a detective. Her nephew is a programmer and turns out he figured out a way to erase the memory books that everyone in the ship uses to upload themselves and be able to download into a new body when they please.  He was overheard talking about the erasure theory and now someone has decided to kill passengers on the ship permanently erasing them so they can’t be redownloaded into a new body. Now Dorthy, as one of the ship’s detectives needs to find the killer before any more books are erased including her own.

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This wraps up the Sarah story arc.  As Mark is finally coming out of the coma he has been in for the last eight years, Sarah is kidnapped by the Johrlac and taken back to their dimension to stand trial for her crimes. As they were doing this, the Johrlac take Arthur as evidence of Sarah’s crimes. As the story unfolds, we find out why the cuckoos were sent to our dimension and why they are different from home world. Annie, Sam, Alice and Thomas travel to Johrlac to rescue Sarah and Arthur and along the way also find out more about the Karios.  A great book and the novella at the end had me in tears. 

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In a world where some families in this valley have and ride dragons there is a coffee shop where you can bring your baby dragon. Saphira is alone in the world and opened a café with the funds provided by grandmother’s will.   Aiden is a bit of a recluse from an important local dragon owning family who is grieving his brother’s death and now trying to raise the dragon that his brother left to him when it was still an egg.  When he meets Saphira and sees how well Sparky responds to her he begs her to train him, the money is a boon to the café since it is barley scraping by due to the damage the little dragons do to the café.  This is a cute cozy romance the the dragons give a nice little fantasy touch to.

The In Death Cookbook: To-Die-For Recipes from the World of J. D. Robb by

Theresa Carle-Sanders, J.D. Robb (Foreword)

This themed cookbook is various dishes mentioned or eaten by the characters in the series. There are also cocktails recipes in here as well so you can make your own screamer if you want. What I liked about the setup was there was paragraph from the book where the recipe was pulled from before every recipe and it left me wanting to reread the series from start to finish. A nice gift for fans of the series.

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Not the place to start in this universe of stories but very entertaining for fans of the series. Diana Harrison needs a very special baby back before it dies without its mother’s milk. She also has loyal employees to avenge that were killed during the theft. She hires Augustine to help her and between the two of them they will succeed along with a little help from Augustine’s intern. 

There are bits and pieces from the website collected here as well as a short story that happens along the same time line. 

Everyone is an unreliable narrator in this book. Tavish has recently married Diya in a whirlwind romance in Las Vegas and has moved with her to New Zealand. It is a fresh start for him with a string of death of former lovers behind him.   There is a cop in LA that is convinced that he has gotten away with murder. Diya’s family wants to hold a huge Hindi wedding in six months so have asked the couple to say they are just engaged. Tavish comes back to the family residence with cake samples to find it in flames and Diya in the yard with multiple stab wounds.  Her sister-in-law has survived the fire with stab wounds as well, but the parents are dead and the brother-in-law is missing.  As the primary suspect in the killing his alibi checks out cursory but his past quickly comes back to haunt him with the police.  As he is investigating the family secrets the detective in LA has chapters in between the narrative where he is convinced that Tavish has gotten away with murder and he is trying to find out how he did it.  A good story with lots of twists and I didn’t see the ending coming.

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As Bob’s copies keep going out in the universe and replicating themselves each is slightly different than Bob but they are working to get the remaining humans off Earth and settled on new planets. New problems with this happens with both an alien race that devours all life on any planet if finds and strip-mines it for resources for it to expand further out in space and the copies of the Brazilian AI that wants to defeat all of Brazil’s enemies. Can’t wait to read the next one.

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So I read twice as much fantasy as I did science fiction. My mystery numbers were up due to catching up on the Michael Connelly books and most of those were audios from the library.  Very little on the graphic novel front and some of the fantasy books could fall into the romantasy side of the shelf.  I read/listened to a lot of novellas this year so that will be a hard category to fill out on the Hugo ballot.  This year I finally got an Audible account since there were lots of older SF books I wanted to listen to that were locked into that format. In Conquest Born by C S Friedman was one that I wanted to listen to but not spend the time rereading the paper version.  Two thirds of my reading is review copies and then the rest was from my library either in audio or paper versions.  I only reviewed a handful of books I bought most of those were ebook only on day of release. I had a few nonfiction titles I did read but only reviewed 3 of them since some I skim and don’t feel like posting reviews about them.  

Slowly Garrick starts showing Riela how to use her magic as he finds out why it seems she is blocked from most of it.  Feylan also wants to know about this new mage and take her for her magic. As the story unfolds Garrick and Riela develop feelings for one another even if they aren’t sure about one another.  As the story unfolds Riela finds out more about her mother who died during her birth.  This adds complications to Riela and Garrick’s relationship and throws a wrench into Garrick’s plans to get even with Feylan.

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