#95 White Hot by Ilona Andrews

Holding back review until closer to the publication date. I will say go and reread the first book so you are ready to dive into this one. It was a lot of fun.


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#96 Den of Wolves by Juliet Marillier

Blackthorn is still chaffing under the restrictions of her deal with Conmael and Grim is under some stringent requirements to build a special house for a local lord. War is coming to their area with fighters coming into the lands and they want to talk to Blackthorn and her nemesis has taken the lands of Lady Flidais’ family.  Everything wraps up by the end of the book and it feels great.
This is a wonderful trilogy and I’m glad that a friend recommend the first one to get me started.

#97 Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold

The second novella in this setting is set several years after the previous one. Penric is working with someone of the Father’s order to track down a possible murder suspect that seems to be a shaman.  He is comfortable in his role as a divine and has a good working relationship with his demon.  This book you learn about shaman that don’t correspond to the Five Gods religion but seems to also be just fine with them.
The actual murder isn’t a mystery but the real mystery is what happens when they catch up with the missing shaman.  Overall a great story and it can be read without having read the previous story since the reader is easily caught up with what has happened before.


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#98 One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews

The third book in this series about an inn on Earth that is an intergalactic waystation that most people have no idea about and the Innkeepers on Earth must keep the secret from the rest of us.  This is not a book to start the series with but it is a fun read.  Dina receives word that her sister needs her and she drops everything and calls in some favors to rescue her sister that she hasn’t spoken to in years.

She also takes in a guest that his species is being hunted into extinction.  The inn is under attack and it is her duty to protect all her guests. But the payment for housing the guest is too much to pass up. It is a lead on where she can find her missing innkeeper parents.

The story is fast paced and there is some resolution on some story threads that have gone on in the previous books.  There is room more story by the end of this book and I can’t wait to see more of this universe.

#99 Saga, Vol. 6 y Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples

Hazel is now in kindergarten in a prisoner of war/ refugee camp with her grandmother and ghost sitter. Her parents are still working hard to track her down and become a family again.  The other plot lines are converging back again on the family but for the most part I’m still only interested in this odd family unit that the universe doesn’t want to see happen.

There are new characters introduced and out of those Hazel’s teacher is by far my favorite one.  It doesn’t seem we will be seeing any more of her in the near future but with this universe you just never know.

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#100 Penric’s Mission by Lois McMaster Bujold

The third novella in the life of Penric sees him settled in his life as a divine and on a secret covert mission that fails as soon as he goes ashore.  Things work out in the end and you find out what has happened to him in the years previously. The nice thing is the story does wrap up everything but you also know there is more that could possibly be written about him in the future. Wonderful storytelling as usual for Bujold and the plus with this one and the other stories about Penric if you read them out of order you are not completely lost.