Today is Galen’s and my 17th wedding anniversary. We were married on this day in 2005 in Anchorage Alaska. (And my mother said it wouldn’t last!) But seriously, it’s been wonderful, he’s the love of my life, and I am oh so grateful that the project we were working on together went so FUBAR that I needed him to come in on the weekend to help me out. Because that’s what got us to start really talking to each other – including, and this will be no surprise, all of the books we had in common!

For Review:
The Accidental Newlywed Game (Boots and Bouquets #3) by Jaci Burton
The Accidental Pinup by Danielle Jackson
After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez
All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay
Ben and Beatriz by Katalina Gamarra
The Bride Goes Rogue (Fifth Avenue Rebels #3) by Joanna Shupe
Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead
Desperation in Death (In Death #55) by J.D. Robb
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
The Long Game (Game Changers #6) by Rachel Reid
Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club #1) by Robert Thorogood
Murder in Westminster (Lady Worthing #1) by Vanessa Riley
Never Been Kissed (Boy Meets Boy #1) by Timothy Janovsky
Not the Witch You Wed (Supernatural Singles #1) by April Asher
The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo
Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason
Set on You by Amy Lea
Theatre of Marvels by Lianne Dillsworth
Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane

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Sometimes I pick books up for the author. Occasionally it’s for the cover. And every once in a while, it’s for the title. This particular stack has not just one or two but three titles that stuck so hard in my head that I had to get the book.

Whenever I see the title Don’t Cry for Me I start hearing the song from Evita in my head. So this one gave me an earworm even though this book has NOTHING to do with Eva Peron. The other two titles that just plain stuck with me are Hell Followed With Us because isn’t that an image? And then there’s The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches because really, how many of those words do you expect to find in the same sentence? Just how is a witch irregular? Because I’m sure that stewed prunes are not the cure for this kind of irregularity!

For Review:
A Black and Endless Sky by Matthew Lyons
Don’t Cry for Me by Daniel Black
Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley
The Family She Never Met by Caridad Piñeiro
The Fervor by Alma Katsu
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola
Mademoiselle Revolution by Zoe Sivak
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
Pollak’s Arm by Hans von Trotha
Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski
A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence #1) by Rebecca Ross
The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett
Silk Fire by Zabe Ellor
The Splendid City by Karen Heuler
Up All Night with a Good Duke (Byronic Book Club #1) by Amy Rose Bennett
The Verifiers by Jane Pek
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

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I’m a bit puzzled as to why this stack ended up being almost entirely at the front of the alphabet. I did not plan it that way.

All of these books look fascinating! Of course they do or I wouldn’t have picked them. But seriously, there are a couple I really want to highlight. First, literally as it was published first, The Black Company by Glen Cook. It’s part of the awesome Tor Essentials line. The Black Company is just the kind of gritty fantasy I usually like, but I bounced hard off it when I tried it way back when. Cook was a friend of a friend so I wanted to read his work and couldn’t get into it at the time. Now that it’s back out we’ll see.

Second book I want to push at people is Down a Dark River. I want to shove that into the hands of anyone who likes historical mysteries because it is AWESOME. It’s also currently on sale for $1.99 on Kindle, so if you’re looking to take a flyer at a book this weekend it’s both marvelous and cheap and I highly recommend it!

For Review:
All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes
August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White
The Berlin Exchange by Joseph Kanon
The Black Company (Chronicles of the Black Company #1) by Glen Cook
The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
Book Boyfriend by Kris Ripper
Bookish People by Susan J. Coll
Box 88 (Lachlan Kite #1) by Charles Cumming
Boys Come First by Aaron Foley
D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Detective (Norcross Security #7) by Anna Hackett
Down a Dark River (Inspector Corravan #1) by Karen Odden (Grade A REVIEW!)
The Final Strife (Final Strife Trilogy #1) by Saara El-Arifi
Flying Solo by Linda Holmes
Harlem Sunset (Harlem Renaissance Mystery #2) by Nekesa Afia
Icebreaker by A. L. Graziadei
Invisible Things by Mat Johnson
Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
Seasonal Fears (Alchemical Journeys #2) by Seanan McGuire

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There are, as always, LOTS of interesting looking books on this week’s Stacking the Shelves. But the one I want to bring your attention to, especially if you are a science fiction and/or fantasy reader, is the one I picked up from Amazon this week. It’s the annual Some of the Best of Tor.com collection, and the ebook is FREE from the etailer of your choice. So if you like the things that Tor and Tor.com publish, this is a real treat – in more ways than one!

For Review:
Dirty Work (Dirty Deeds #1) by TA Moore
Eclipse the Moon (Starlight’s Shadow #2) by Jessie Mihalik
Eyes of the Void (Final Architecture #2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
Kalyna the Soothsayer by Elijah Kinch Spector
The Knave of Secrets by Alex Livingston
The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope
One Foot in the Fade (Fetch Phillips #3) by Luke Arnold
Peril at the Exposition by Nev March
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen

Purchased from Amazon/Audible:
Some of the Best of Tor.com 2021 by G. V. Anderson, ‘Pemi Aguda, Elizabeth Bear, Kate Elliott, A. T. Greenblatt, Glen Hirshberg, Kathleen Jennings, Cheri Kamei, Jasmin Kirkbride, Matthew Kressel, Usman T. Malik, Sam J. Miller, Annalee Newitz, noc, Sarah Pinsker, Daniel Polansky, Peng Shepherd, Cooper Shrivastava, Lavie Tidhar, Catherynne M. Valente, Carrie Vaughn, E. Lily Yu

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This week’s stack is just a bit shorter (smaller, less tall) than usual for this time of year. Normally I’m gearing up for a committee and getting a bunch of things that are going to be part of that work. Howsomever, at the present moment I’m in limbo, not certain which committee I’ll be on so not sure what books to be looking for/at yet. We’ll see what happens.

For Review:
The Bachelor Bargain (Secrets, Scandals and Spies #1) by Maddison Michaels
The Bachelor Betrayal (Secrets, Scandals and Spies #2) by Maddison Michaels
By the Book (Meant to Be #2) by Jasmine Guillory
The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang
Sweet Home Cowboy by Nicole Helm, Maisey Yates, Jackie Ashenden, Caitlin Crews
Tear Down the Throne (Gargoyle Queen #2) by Jennifer Estep
You Were Made to Be Mine (Palace of Rogues #5) by Julie Anne Long

Purchased from Amazon/Audible:
If the Shoe Fits (Meant to Be #1) by Julie Murphy
Renegade Love (Galactic Love #3) by Ann Aguirre

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We have company this weekend, which is definitely a YAY! It’s the first time since the “before times” we’ve had someone come to stay for the weekend.

The book in here that I’m most looking forward to is The Jade Setter of Janloon. I wasn’t ready to let go of that world when I finished Jade Legacy, and honestly I’m still not. My curiosity bump itches something fierce over the Ann Aguirre books, so I’ll be reviewing one this coming week.

For Review:
Age of Ash (Kithamar Trilogy #1) by Daniel Abraham (audio)
The Book of Gothel by Mary McMyne
The Bridesmaids Union by Jonathan Vatner
The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia
By Her Own Design by Piper Huguley
Flirting with Fifty by Jane Porter
The Jade Setter of Janloon (Green Bone Saga #0.5) by Fonda Lee
January Fifteenth by Rachel Swirsky
Our Last Days in Barcelona by Chanel Cleeton
Sugar and Salt by Susan Wiggs
Ten Rules for Marrying a Duke by Michelle McLean
Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan

Purchased from Amazon/Audible:
Love Code (Galactic Love #2) by Ann Aguirre
Strange Love (Galactic Love #1) by Ann Aguirre

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Looking at this list made me check to see what’s the furthest out book on my calendar. And it’s The Last Dreamwalker, which won’t be published until late September. And yet, it’s done and I have an eARC. Who knows what the world will be like in September? So far, very little in the last couple of years has gone as planned, so why would this coming year be any different? But still, that’s three whole seasons from now, which is INSANE!

For Review:
The Bladed Faith (Vagrant Gods #1) by David Dalglish
The City Inside by Samit Basu
From Below by Darcy Coates
Hearts of Briarwall by Krista Jensen
Island Time by Georgia Clark
It Could Be Anyone by Jaime Lynn Hendricks
The Last Dreamwalker by Rita Woods
Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
Madwoman: Nellie Bly by Louisa Treger
A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables #2) by Alix E. Harrow
Remember Love (Ravenswood #1) by Mary Balogh
The Ruins by Phoebe Wynne
Summer at the Cape by RaeAnne Thayne
Three Miles Down by Harry Turtledove
The Wolf Den (Wolf Den #1) by Elodie Harper

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There are BOOKS again on NetGalley and Edelweiss. Seriously. Wonderfully. And they all look bright and shiny and I want to read every single one of them. Which is impossible and yes my virtually towering TBR pile is ginormous. As addictions go, reading is much safer than a whole lot of other possibilities. Thank goodness!

Just to leave you with a laugh, when I was looking up all the cover pictures in Amazon, my search for A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (wonderful title BTW) included in the results – above the book I was searching for – was a “Yodeling Pickle”. I swear. Why? I have no idea whatsoever. Nor do I honestly have any idea what one would do with a yodeling pickle. But they exist!

For Review:
The Boardwalk Bookshop by Susan Mallery
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson
Emperor (Galactic Kings #2) by Anna Hackett
Fires of Edo (Shinobi Mystery #8) by Susan Spann
The First Binding (Tales of Tremaine #1) by R.R. Virdi
Haven by Emma Donoghue
The Hunger of the Gods (Bloodsworn Trilogy #2) by John Gwynne
The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander
Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms edited by John Joseph Adams
The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick
Mirror Lake (Shady Hollow #3) by Juneau Black
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

Purchased from Amazon/Audible:
The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic #1) by Luanne G. Smith

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It’s pretty clear that the publishing industry has woken up from its holiday doldrums. NetGalley and Edelweiss have both been chock full of excellent new books! And doesn’t the Kelly Barnhill book, When Women Were Dragons, have the best title EVER?

For Review:
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
Engines of Empire (Age of Uprising #1) by R.S. Ford (audio)
From Bad to Cursed (Witches of Thistle Grove #2) by Lana Harper
Hot Time by W.H. Flint
Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid
The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian
A Matter of Death and Life (Gideon Sable #2) by Simon R. Green
The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes (Queer Principles of Kit Webb #2) by Cat Sebastian
The Self-Made Widow by Fabian Nicieza
When She Dreams (Burning Cove #6) by Amanda Quick
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
The Wrong Victim (Quinn & Costa #3) by Allison Brennan

Purchased from Amazon/Audible:
Division One Series (14 books!) by Stephanie Osborn
The Sandman: Act 2 by Neil Gaiman (audio)

Borrowed from the Library:
The Third to Die (Quinn & Costa #1) by Allison Brennan

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Wherever you are, it’s New Year’s Day – unless it’s already the day after. So HAPPY NEW YEAR! Whatever 2021 was, at least it’s over. Here’s hoping that 2022 is better. Or at least not any worse.

It hasn’t even felt like winter here, at least until now. We’re supposed to get a “cold” snap this week – meaning it might go down into the 40s during the day and the 20s at night. Cold for here. Positively freezing for Florida. Possibly a warm front for either Chicago or Anchorage. Climate’s what you expect, weather is what you get.

The pickings the last couple of weeks on NetGalley and Edelweiss have been pretty sparse. Whether that’s because not much is coming out or because not many people are working during the holiday month is anyone’s guess. We’ll see what happens next week.

For Review:
The Emma Project (Rajes #4) by Sonali Dev
Flying the Coop (Dreambird Chronicles #2) by Lucinda Roy
Mr. Donahue’s Total Surrender (Enterprising Scoundrels #1) by Sophie Barnes
The Nurse’s Secret by Amanda Skenandore
Out of the Clear Blue Sky by Kristan Higgins
The Summer Getaway by Susan Mallery

Borrowed from the Library:
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander #9) by Diana Gabaldon

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