This is, pretty much in its entirety, a shelf of curiosity. Both Ann Cleeves’ mysteries and Joe Abercrombie’s dark fantasies have been recommended to me – and frequently at that – but I’ve never managed to shoehorn either into the towering TBR pile until now. While The Adventures of Mary Darling just sounds fascinating with its combination of Peter Pan and Sherlock Holmes. Because REALLY? We’ll certainly find out what THAT’S all about in the months ahead!

For Review:
The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy
Awakened by A.E. Osworth
A Bird in the Hand (George & Molly Palmer-Jones #1) by Ann Cleeves
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
On Being Jewish Now edited by Zibby Owens
Replay by Jordan Mechner

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Saying that I didn’t get much this week is like saying water is wet. And it’s really weirding me out. To be honest, originally there was only one book on this list. Well, there was only one book after I moved the four books that don’t have covers yet to next week’s stack. Again. I know I shouldn’t just add stuff because the pile looks empty, but I did it anyway. Also again.

The book I’m most looking forward to is the one I started with, A Fashionably French Murder by Colleen Cambridge. It’s the third book in her An American in Paris series, meaning it’s the third book in the historical mystery series that features Julia Child as the protagonist’s sidekick. The first two, Mastering the Art of French Murder and A Murder Most French, were both awesome and I can’t wait for this next one.

The book I’m most curious about – and I’m terribly curious – is The Girl from Greenwich Street by Lauren Willig. It’s based on the true story of America’s first famous murder trial, with Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr attempting to work together to defend the accused murderer. The book is based on the actual trial transcript – and it sounds fascinating.

Both the Memory Bank series and The Naturalist Society are books that I’ve looked out multiple times over the past couple of weeks but just didn’t pick up. With this week’s utter dearth of titles, I decided to pick them up after all.

For Review:
Aurora Fragment (Memory Bank #3) by Brian Shea and Raquel Byrnes
A Fashionably French Murder (An American in Paris #3) by Colleen Cambridge
The Girl from Greenwich Street by Lauren Willig

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
The Memory Bank (Memory Bank #1) by Brian Shea and Raquel Byrnes
The Naturalist Society by Carrie Vaughn (Amazon First Reads)
Retrograde Flaw (Memory Bank #2) by Brian Shea and Raquel Byrnes

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This stack has pretty covers and pretty cool covers as well!

I think the prettiest covers are The Geographer’s Map to Romance and Pets in Space 9, although they are clearly not pretty in the same way at all. Ill-Fated Fortune is also pretty, but mostly it makes me pretty hungry when I look at at. One Level Down is just a cool cover. I could see that background being used in some fascinating designs and Insta posts.

And then there’s Aunt Tigress, which I honestly got FOR the cover. It’s not exactly “pretty”, and if pretty is as pretty does, based on the blurb ‘pretty’ is going to end up being a really wrong word all the way around. Fascinating, yes. Compelling, I hope so. Possibly even a bit bloody – or at least bloody-minded. But pretty, well, not so much. And that’s a good thing for the kind of urban fantasy I really, really hope it is!

One more thing…the book in this stack I’m most looking forward to is, hands down, Who Will Remember by C.S. Harris, the OMG 20th book in the marvelous Sebastian St. Cyr series.

For Review:
Aunt Tigress by Emily Yu-Xuan Qin
Claim (Fury Brothers #5) by Anna Hackett
The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen (Meals to Remember at the Chibineko Kitchen #1) by Yuta Takahashi, translated by Cat Anderson
The Geographer’s Map to Romance (Love’s Academic #2) by India Holton
One Level Down by Mary G. Thompson
Our Nazi by Michael Soffer
Rebellious Grace (King’s Fool #3) by Jeri Westerson
Star-Crossed Egg Tarts (Magical Fortune Cookie #2) by Jennifer J. Chow
Stone Certainty (Holy Terrors #2) by Simon R. Green
Who Will Remember (Sebastian St. Cyr #20) by C.S. Harris

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Ill-Fated Fortune (Magical Fortune Cookie #1) by Jennifer J. Chow
Pets in Space 9 edited by Carol Van Natta

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A slightly shorter stack this week. I do have a few more, but no covers to go with them – so they’ll be waiting a bit.

But the books with covers I do have are an interesting bunch. The pretty covers are The December Market and Greenteeth. The book I’m most looking forward to is The Sea Eternal by Emery Robin – because I loved the first book in the series, The Stars Undying.

The book I’m really, really curious about is The Vengeance by Emma Newman, because, well, vampires in the world of Alexandre Dumas and possibly his Three Musketeers. If that wasn’t a tease enough, I’m also wondering how it will compare to Genevieve Cogman’s Scarlet Revolution series (which begins with Scarlet), which mixes vampires with the French Revolution. Clearly there’s something in the literary air about vampires mixing with French history and I’m really curious what THAT’s all about.

What about you? What have you added to your stack this week?

For Review:
The December Market (Shelter Springs #2) by RaeAnne Thayne
Don’t Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo
Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill
Israel Alone by Bernard-Henri Lévy
Lifeform by Jenny Slate
One Final Turn (Electra McDonnell #5) by Ashley Weaver
The Sea Eternal (Empire Without End #2) by Emery Robin
Two Times Murder (Quiet Teacher #2) by Adam Oyebanji
The Vengeance (Vampires of Dumas #1) by Emma Newman

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I’m doing this a couple of days early this week because Hurricane Helene – not that she’ll still be an actual hurricane by the time she reaches Atlanta. But we will get LOTS of wind and rain, which has the potential for falling trees and downed power lines, so I’m running ahead a bit just in case. I’m hoping it works as a countermeasure, that by planning for it we won’t actually lose power.

Luna is clearly wigged out by the storm – even just the heavy rain Wednesday night. She spent the evening huddled under the sink in the downstairs bathroom, as it’s the one room in the house that has no windows.

I do have a few – just a few (LOL) – books to read if we get stuck indoors for the weekend. The pretty covers this time around are Austen at Sea, The River has Roots and Still Life with Remorse. Although I think an ‘honorable mention’ could be awarded for Eat the Ones You Love. That cover is beautifully done – but seriously creepy!

The books I’m most curious about are the Yard Birds series that begins with Crazy as a Loon. I read a review of the final book in the series, Free as a Bird, at Caffeinated Reviewer, and I was intrigued. Also hoping the series will be a bit reminiscent of Never Too Old to Save the World and A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark as they all feature female protagonists that are not so much ‘of a certain age’ but looking at that ‘certain age’ through the rearview mirror but still kicking ass and taking names even if they have to use a cane to do it.

The one I’m most looking forward to, for the next time I really need a comfort read, to absolutely no one’s surprise, is The Blanket Cats.

For Review:
10/7: 100 Human Stories by Lee Yaron
Austen at Sea by Natalie Jenner
The Blanket Cats by Kiyoshi Shigematsu, translated by Jesse Kirkwood
Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman #1) by Olivia Waite
The Prince Without Sorrow (Obsidian Throne #1) by Maithree Wijesekara
The River has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
Still Life with Remorse by Maira Kalman

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Crazy as a Loon (Yard Birds #1) by Hailey Edwards (ebook + audio)
Dead as a Dodo (Yard Birds #2) by Hailey Edwards (ebook + audio)
Free as a Bird (Yard Birds #3) by Hailey Edwards (ebook + audio)

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