Tag: adult book recs
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The Delightful Final Ren Faire Romance in Jen Deluca’s Well Traveled
We have reached the final novel in Jen Deluca’s ren faire romance series, Well Traveled. She saved a good one for last though, having teased out Dex MacLean’s character across the series and adding boss-woman Lulu Malone into the mix. It’s a riveting one, and the fates have something in store for these two. A…
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Light Academia and Dragons in Marie Brennan’s A Natural History of Dragons
A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan is a light academia fantasy novel involving danger, discovery, and dragons. Not only is it a brilliant fantasy akin to the Emily Wilde series, but it is a touch darker, more grounded, and carries a lovely reminiscent tone due to its nature…
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System Collapse by Martha Wells – Murderbot’s Dramatic Finale
Did I expect for System Collapse to be excellent, hilarious, and deeply touching? Yes. Is it? Yes – by my standards, at least. System Collapse, the seventh and final instalment in the beloved Murderbot Diaries, a series written by Martha Wells that I absolutely adore and cannot believe I didn’t start earlier. So how does…
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Well Matched by Jen Deluca is Such A Befitting Romance
Well, if I thought this series couldn’t get any better I was wrong. So very wrong. Well Matched, the third novel in the Ren Faire romance series by Jen Deluca, brings a hearty dose of wit, tension, conflict, longing, love, and struggle that makes this romance all the more engaging, enticing, and intriguing. To think…
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word of World is Forest is Still Relevant Today
I came across The Word for World is Forest by Usula K. Le Guin as a short book recommendation on Bookstagram, with the novel clocking in at 190 pages or so. The little premise given mentioned “Avatar, but good” which gave me a laugh, and followed up with noting the themes of colonialism and conflict…
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Murderbot is as Sarcastic and Moody as Ever in Martha Wells’ Fugitive Telemetry
Murderbot is back and as sassy and witty as ever in Martha Wells’ fifth Murderbot Diaries novella Fugitive Telemetry. While the exact reading order is debated regarding whether or not Network Effect should be read first or if, in fact, Fugitive Telemetry should be chronologically ahead, this novel is undoubtedly as entertaining, dramatic, and space…
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Jen Deluca’s Well Played Plucks At The Heartstrings
Following Well Met, we have Jen Deluca’s second novel Well Played, and this one is a little more tense and suspenseful. With mistaken identity, online communication (which in turn leads to some miscommunication) and two characters who don’t really know what they’re doing with themselves, Well Played continues this whimsy Ren Faire romance series and…