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This is a sequel to The Ship Who Searched but doesn’t need to be read to understand what is going on in the book. The plus is there are more books like this set in the same universe. Tia is a brainship that works with her Brawn partner Alex. They are testing a singularity drive for the military that occasionally sends them off course and causes issues for them with the courier service they work for. They end up helping out several people along the way and finally have to take on 2 military tech to help suss out the weird glitch that keeps sending them off course. Things work out in the end and I wonder if we will see more books in this setting.

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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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When the gate finally opens between the New Sonora colony and Earth things are looking good for New Sonora. Oliver and his sister Lulu are working the farm together after their grandfather died with the help of Roge,r an AI bot used to control the drones that work the fields. But when large mechs land on planet and start attacking the colonists they quickly find out that they are being targeted for extermination by Earth. The battle lasts five days and with some backroom deals with the company controlling the game as the battle is seen from Earth, Oliver alongside his friends and neighbors have to work with the company to make the game interesting in the hopes of surviving the game. The players think they are helping to destroy the rebels but there are no rebels and a lot of disinformation is going on.

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Tess Covington shows up to an inn in a remote part of Colorado to do a job that the owner’s aunt had scheduled. Tess has just found out she is a late blooming omega, the first shifter in her family for generations so she doesn’t know what to expect. Hunter is an alpha werewolf and is mad at his aunt for having Tess’ company come and work on the inn but relents to have the work done. Hunter has to end up helping Tess with new heat cycles since she can’t control them and she doesn’t know what to do.

This is set after The Fake Mate but this story can be read without having to know what happens in that book. The story was cute and there is a lot of family interactions with Tess’ family with her brothers and her worry about her dad.

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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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The second book in the series has Queen Lorelai the half elven queen of Baravia and one of the Queens of Villainy kidnap her nemesis the General Gerard de Moireul that she has been taunting for the last seven years and now she has kidnapped him to open his eyes to get his to see what is wrong with the Emperor he serves. She takes him to the Fae realm and they enter a contest and have to work together. As they are winning the various challenges each realizes that they have feelings for one another. This is a enemies to lovers storyline and by the end of the book the romance for book 3 is set up to happen.

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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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The day Celia came into her magical powers she cursed her oldest brother to live without love. Her father now ignores her and her middle brother causing the tow siblings to forge a relationship that was previously prevented to happen due to middle brother’s mother being of low status. When the king decides that Celia must go to court to marry the prince she finds out that not is all as it seems with the reasons of the marriage and now she is nothing more that someone to be ignored by her new husband as she finds out the true meaning behind the war that has gone on between her people and the elves. A good novella that reminds the reader of the power of words.

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Storm Front [Dramatized Adaptation] by Graphic Audio (Adaptor), Jim Butcher, [Author] Emlyn McFarland (Reader), Brian Kim McCormick (Reader), Matthew Bassett (Reader), Christopher Walker (Reader), Nora Sofyan (Reader), Drew Kopas (Reader), Nicole Perez (Reader), Stephanie Németh-Parker (Reader), John Kielty (Reader), Gregory Linington (Reader), Christopher Mclinden (Reader)

This is a great multicast audio of a book I haven’t reread in years and there were little plot points I had forgotten about. The voice casting was great and it is a different but good take on the single narrative reader audio book. A entertaining start to a long and fun series.

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Riela lives on the fringes of her village and is barely tolerated by her neighbors due to not being from there and having magic even if she did save the village from a flood that caused them to manifest and save everyone. Armed with weapons she hasn’t trained with she goes into the forest to kill the monster that attacked another villager. After barely surviving an attack and being rescued by a mage named Garrick. Turns out that Riela has magic she can’t use and Garrick thinks she is the latest trick from his enemy Feylan to kill him once and for all.

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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What a great ending to this series. The book starts with Elena being a thousand years old and thinking about all the changes to her life and to everyone around her. Everyone that has shown up during the series gets mentioned. Some angels go to Sleep and a one awakens. The book is still too far out from publication to really get into the details that might spoil any surprises for fans and I won’t be the one to do it. But every chapter was great to read and loose ends were tied off nicely. There is always room for short stories set in this universe but if there wasn’t any more the fans really get all their questions answered.

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Murderbot is on a mission to save some people and then it gets complicated. Murderbot is running some new code that Art helped write to monitor their organic parts for emotional regulation. And when they find who they are looking to rescue a new complication arises and they have to rescue more people. Lots of internal dialogue as usual and seeing Three’s personality develop was great as well.

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The story goes over the year after the battle of Chicago. Harry is in a funk from all the death and losses of both friends and allies. This is a story about grief and depression and how Harry works through it. Of course, there is stuff he is trying to fix from the aftermath of the war and also do his duties as the Winter Knight. This is definitely the beginning of a new story arc in the Dresden series and can be a good place for a few reader to start if they don’t mind spoilers for past events. I liked how Harry just didn’t bounce back and neither did Chicago and yet by the end of the book there is hope.

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Nancy has returned from the Halls of the Dead looking for help from her former classmates. Her friends spring to action and return with her to fight the ghosts of the unquiet dead and help save the other living statues. You find out more about this realm and there are more surprises instore for the group as they try to figure out what caused the spirts to come out and attack everyone. A great story in this universe and there are new students so people will be asking for more backstories.

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Amara has been avoiding her family because she isn’t interested in taking up the family business of being Death. Granted she always knows when someone is going to die and it has made it difficult for her to have friends and know when and how they will die. When she gets a call saying that her father is ill she goes home thinking that it is a ruse but her dad is really sick and she needs to take up the slack of the region he is responsible for.

Amara’s friend Gray comes home with her since he knows all her secrets and helps with the situation. The story is good and the ending complete you know there is more room in this setting for more books but the reader isn’t left hanging.

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When a respected business man is found murdered in his home office laying in front of an opened vault with priceless stolen treasures inside Eve has to solve this and hope that nothing inside comes back onto Roarke’s misspent youth. A good mystery with the usual Eve and Roarke romance and nothing bad happening with any of their friends make this a great read to curl up with.

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Thea finds out she has inherited some property in a small mountain town from her grandmother that she has never met. Her mom had made her and her sisters swear they would never go back to their mother’s hometown and never speak to their grandmother. Well after being fired from her job and needing money she goes to find just what she has inherited. With only a suitcase and a pet cockatoo that used to belong to her former boss that the bird hated she is off to Georgia to see just what her inheritance is. This is a cute story with a lot of hidden family history that comes to light and trying to find a new start in a new town. Rhea’s sisters are really only on the phone and don’t come into town until near the end of the book. There is a cute romance that has forbidden vibes since Rhea’s grandmother and his grandmother didn’t like one another but for good reasons.

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This is a retelling of the tale of the seven boys turned into geese and saved by their sister who has to make them shirts while never speaking until the task is complete. The setting is the usual Regency England with the Elemental Masters but it is set in the countryside and only at the end do we even see the White Lodge get involved. The father is a minor lord who managed to get a swanmaid to marry him and then he hid her cloak of feathers so she couldn’t leave. When she gets it back she leaves and never returns abandoning her 8 children. The four sets of twins, 7 brothers and one sister are mostly ignored by their father and are surprised when years later he shows up with a new bride. The story follows the tale’s framework and the usual ending happens. This story does show what happens with courtesans and how some made a living. Granted they didn’t use dark magic like the one in the story did. But the story also shows how small acts of kindness can pay back to the person when they need it the most.

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Bob is doing pretty well for himself, he just sold his company for a large pike of money and for kicks he just paid to have himself frozen after death to be revived at a later date. A hundred years pass, and Bob finds himself in a computer with no rights and all his careful savings gone. The current government wants to use him to pilot a probe to find new worlds to colonize and they barely tolerate him since his existence is blasphemy to their religious beliefs. But other countries have the same tech and it is a race to get Bob to space before he is blown up on the ground. Now Bob and several clone selves are out in the universe trying to find new places and maybe get back to Earth.

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This is set a few years after Legends and Lattes. Fern the bookstore rattkin friend of Viv’s from her early days as a merc has sold her store and moved next door to Viv to open a bookstore next to the coffee shop. But soon after she opens the store with doubts in her head and a belly full of alcohol she wakes up the next day in a wagon far from town. Fern is in the company of a legendary Elf warrior and her bounty moving far away from where Fern should be. So the only way back seems to be the way forward and Fern has adventures and constantly writes letters back to Viv.

For extra enjoyment of this story find and read Goblins & Greatcoats, a short story set in the same universe. You don’t have to but you will enjoy it as well since that character is found in the pages of this book.

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#11 The Ship Who Dared by Mercedes Lackey, Veronica Giguere
#10 The In Death Cookbook: To-Die-For Recipes from the World of J. D. Robb by Theresa Carle-Sanders
#9 Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman
#7 The Mating Game by Lana Ferguson
#6 Such a Perfect Family by Nalini Singh
#5 Enchanting the Fae Queen by Stephanie Burgis, Jennifer Jill Araya [Narrator]
#4 For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor
#3 The Summer War by Naomi Novik
#2 Storm Front [Dramatized Adaptation] by Graphic Audio (Adaptor), Jim Butcher
#1 Silver & Blood by Jessie Mihalik
#78 Archangel's Eternity by Nalini Singh
#77 Platform Decay by Martha Wells
#73 Twelve Months by Jim Butcher
#72 Through Gates of Garnet and Gold by Seanan McGuire, Cynthia Hopkins [Narrator]
#71 The Reluctant Reaper by MaryJanice Davidson
#70 Stolen in Death by J.D. Robb
#69 Books & Bewitchment by Isla Jewell
#67 The Cyprian by Mercedes Lackey
#64 We Are Legion by Dennis E. Taylor
#63 Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree

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Entries tagged with review copy

#11 The Ship Who Dared by Mercedes Lackey, Veronica Giguere

#10 The In Death Cookbook: To-Die-For Recipes from the World of J. D. Robb by Theresa Carle-Sanders

#9 Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman

#7 The Mating Game by Lana Ferguson

#6 Such a Perfect Family by Nalini Singh

#5 Enchanting the Fae Queen by Stephanie Burgis, Jennifer Jill Araya [Narrator]

#4 For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor

#3 The Summer War by Naomi Novik

#2 Storm Front [Dramatized Adaptation] by Graphic Audio (Adaptor), Jim Butcher

#1 Silver & Blood by Jessie Mihalik

#78 Archangel's Eternity by Nalini Singh

#77 Platform Decay by Martha Wells

#73 Twelve Months by Jim Butcher

#72 Through Gates of Garnet and Gold by Seanan McGuire, Cynthia Hopkins [Narrator]

#71 The Reluctant Reaper by MaryJanice Davidson

#70 Stolen in Death by J.D. Robb

#69 Books & Bewitchment by Isla Jewell

#67 The Cyprian by Mercedes Lackey

#64 We Are Legion by Dennis E. Taylor

#63 Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree