The Book Whisperers

Thank you to Netgalley and Knopf Books for Young Readers for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Eve has been a robot gladiator for a few years. Helping her Grandpa survive until one day she figures out she can destroy machines with the power of her mind. Now she is on the run with her band of misfits. Lemon, Ezekiel and Cricket. However, she is having memories of another time and another girl with a different name, and she can't figure out what that means. As they try to stay one step ahead of the Preacher and figure out her past can she face the truth? I know this is a bit brief on the summary. However, this is full of twist including a massive one at the end that I am still reeling from to be honest. So I am vague because those even the minor ones will take away from the story. To be honest I wasn't sure I was going to like this, I was a few chapters in and considered setting it aside, but everyone was raving about it so I kept going. It is interestin...

Thank you to Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Lucas has gone to retreat for writers in his hometown in Wales. He has been struggling to write his new book, and he hoped that reconnecting with his past would help him come up with an idea. He is floored when Julia tells him about how her husband died and her daughter disappeared. He decides that he needs to help her find out. So he hires a private investigator to look into Lily's disappearance. She finds a couple of leads before she too disappears. Soon Lucas is looking into it on his own when he finds out the story of the Widow. He wonders what secrets this place holds. Meanwhile, at the retreat strange things are happening. Lucas hears a little girl singing a song in Welsh, but think he is crazy another guest hears it as well. Soon they are all wondering if there is a ghost or something darker in this sleepy Welsh town. Can Lucas uncover the truth before it is too late?...

Thank you to Page Street Books for a copy of the ARC in exchange for a fair review. Gemma is going to meet the King Above and she is baring bad news, but she is even more shocked when Prince Tollan meets her and informs her that he is the new King Above, and he is taken aback when she informs him that she is the new Queen Below. However, they both know something is wrong when they compare the way the King and Queen died and it was similar and when Prince Tollan falls ill, Gemma begins to suspect the mage women are behind all of this. As she works with Tollan and others to figure out what is going on the conspiracy deepens even further. When she barely survives an assassination attempt she knows that time is running out. I have to say this rather short compared to most fantasy type books. However, it was interesting with a lot of good concepts. I think it would have been amazing if this more than a standalone or if it had been fleshed out a tad more as a standalone. I felt lik...

Thank you to Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Gillian Ryan has been working on a cure for Losian's since her husband was diagnosed with it. She has been running out of funding and time since her daughter was diagnosed as well. Losian's is new aggressive form of dementia. Once her funding runs, she surprised by a visit from an old boyfriend. Carson is offering the chance of the lifetime for Gillian. She has a chance to go to space and study people who are affected by similar symptoms as Losian's. The difference is no one is for sure what is causing their symptoms except that they were all using a teleportation device. But, Gillian has a bit of a secret too, since her daughter was diagnosed she has slipped back into her addiction.  She secretly hopes this trip will help her get clean, but shortly after they leave she finds out that she was lied too, and they aren't going to a nearby space station. They are on...

A Court of Frost and Starlight just dropped into the public's hands this Tuesday May 4th and the collective fandom is already losing their minds. (Me included)  This is a "spoilery" review so if you'd rather be left in the dark about what happens I can respect that and caution you not to read any farther.  If you are desperate for any nugget of information that you don't care about spoilers then read ahead but either way YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! So I finished the first read of this new novella in a day. It's not necessarily a long read but there are a lot of elements weaving in out of each other between all of the characters which is exactly what you would expect to see in a bridging novella. We're going to explore a lot of those elements in future blog posts but for today I want to talk about about the hidden character in each of S.J. Maas's ACOTAR books. We hear of this character for the first time in a very vague sense in A Court of Thorns and R...

Thank you to Netgalley and Minotaur Books for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Roxane is back, she had been tailing Marin to see if she was being unfaithful until the client's check bounced. Now however, Tom and another Detective have shown up at her door and are asking her questions about Marin. It seems that someone shot her, and they think it was Arthur her client. Roxane heads back to Arthur's to see what he has to say, but he seems more confused than ever. Although he did find out that Marin was stealing money from him. Roxane begins to dig deeper into Marin and soon the rabbit hole is out of control. Will Roxane be able to find and stop the killer before her family pays the price? Will she unravel all the strands fast enough? Usually I would say quite a bit more about the story but this had so many strands that I didn't want to reveal one of them and give things away. This was another brilliant Roxane story. What I love most about this was i...