I finally found cover images for two books that I’ve had forever – but without the art. It feels like a bit of a milestone. Also, the covers are gorgeous. I’m speaking of Blood Jade and Fiasco both of which have fascinating covers and whose first series books were both terrific. So I have very high hopes indeed for both of them.

Two books in this stack look to be series wrap-ups, notably the final Maisie Dobbs book, The Comfort of Ghosts, Ghostdrift, which is purportedly the last book in Suzanne Palmer’s Finder Chronicles.

And I can never resist either a Sherlock Holmes pastiche OR another entry in the Penric and Desdemona series by Lois McMaster Bujold. All in all, this is kind of a ‘Goldilocks’ stack – not too big, not too small and all of the books look like they’re going to be JUST right!

For Review:
Blood Jade (Phoenix Hoard #2) by Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle
The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs #18) by Jacqueline Winspear
The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
Fiasco (Uncharted Hearts #2) by Constance Fay
Ghostdrift (Finder Chronicles #4) by Suzanne Palmer
The Hero She Wants (Unbroken Heroes #2) by Anna Hackett
Port in a Storm (Sinners #8) by Rhys Ford
Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell by Nicholas Meyer

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona #12) by Lois McMaster Bujold
From Sawdust to Stardust by Terry Lee Rioux

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I have been trying to figure out Instagram and #bookstagram this week, meaning that this is my both my first Stacking the Shelves post of 2024 and my first stab at doing it on insta. (Check it out!) I believe I’ve reached the point in my learning curve where I’ve flipped from 1 step forward and 2 steps back to the other way around. I sure hope so. It helped that this week’s stack was VERY short.

The book I’m most looking forward to in this short stack is definitely Gryphon, because I adore the Miranda Chase series. The ones I’m most intrigued by are the Miss Percy Guides. Because dragons. We’ll certain see in the weeks ahead – if not sooner, because Miss Percy and her dragons are absolutely calling my name!

For Review:
City of Laughter by Temin Fruchter (book and audio)
Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis
Triple Sec by TJ Alexander

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Gryphon (Miranda Chase NTSB #14) by M.L. Buchman
Miss Percy’s Pocket Guide (to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons (Miss Percy Guide #1) by Quenby Olson
Miss Percy’s Travel Guide (to Welsh Moors and Feral Dragons (Miss Percy Guide #2) by Quenby Olson

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This stack is a bit taller than I expected, but then I didn’t expect Amazon to dangle triple kindle points in the Kindle Rewards Beta in front of me this week – and I probably should have. But that’s what brings the remainder of the Barker & Llewelyn series into my Kindle app – not that I needed much coaxing after reading The Limehouse Text this week and being every bit as enthralled as I was with the first two books in the series.

That being said, the book I’m actually most looking forward to in this stack is Requiem for a Mouse because I adore Diesel and am sneakily fond of his human as well. Although, as adorable as that cover picture is, Diesel really shouldn’t eat even a bit of that cheesecake because it would not be at all good for him. No matter how good I expect his book to be for me!

For Review:
The Book That Broke the World (Library Trilogy #2) by Mark Lawrence
The Last Word (Harbinder Kaur #4) by Elly Griffiths
Requiem for a Mouse (Cat in the Stacks #16) by Miranda James
A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock #8) by Sherry Thomas

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
An Awkward Way to Die ((Barker & Llewelyn #8.5) by Will Thomas
Dance with Death (Barker & Llewelyn #12) by Will Thomas
Fierce Poison (Barker & Llewelyn #13) by Will Thomas
Heart of the Nile (Barker & Llewelyn #14) by Will Thomas

Borrowed from the Library:
The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur #2) by Elly Griffiths

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I’m not sure pretty is even the correct word for this bunch of covers. The West Passage takes that prize, although there honestly isn’t a lot of competition. Very much on the other hand, there are three books in this stack that I am eagerly anticipating, one of which I didn’t even know was going to exist until I saw it on Edelweiss.

That would be The Daughters’ War by Christopher Buehlman, the unexpected PREQUEL to The Blacktongue Thief. Not that I wouldn’t still love to see the SEQUEL that story is begging for sometime soon – although not as soon as I’d hoped since this came first. I’ve also been eagerly awaiting Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard, as I said in my review of her Seven of Infinities a couple of weeks ago.

I don’t know about you, but I’m absolutely looking forward to not just one but TWO three-day weekends in a row. There should be plenty of time over the holidays for lots of wonderful reading.

Happy Holidays INDEED!

For Review:
A Body on the Doorstep (London Ladies’ Murder Club #1) by Marty Wingate (audio)
The Daughters’ War (Blacktongue #0) by Christopher Buehlman
Gravity Lost (Ambit’s Run #2) by L.M. Sagas
In the Shadow of the Fall (Guardians of the Gods #1) by Tobi Ogundiran
Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11) by Iona Whishaw
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children #9) by Seanan McGuire (audio)
Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard
Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi
The West Passage by Jared Pechaček

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children #5) by Seanan McGuire (audio)

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I keep playing with these stacks because I keep expecting that one of these holiday week stacks is going to be empty – and then what? But so far, there’s always been something. Actually, there are a couple more somethings than are showing here because there are some books coming up next spring that may have ARCs available but whose cover art just isn’t ready yet.

The book on this list I am absolutely more looking forward to is People in Glass Houses by Jayne Castle. I love her, well her and her alter egos Amanda Quick and Jayne Ann Krentz, and their combined Arcane Society/Harmony ‘verse. The Harmony books in particular are always a treat because I love good SFR and it’s among the best.

I’m also looking forward to, albeit with some trepidation, Funny Story by Emily Henry. The first book of hers that I read was Book Lovers, and I loved it, so I picked up Happy Place, which was good but I didn’t fall into my own happy place nearly as much. I’m wondering where Funny Story is going to fall on that spectrum. We’ll see.

For Review:
The Fall of Waterstone (Black Land’s Bane #2) by Lilith Saintcrow
Follow the Stars Home by Diane C. McPhail
Funny Story by Emily Henry
A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh
Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse
People in Glass Houses (Harmony #17) by Jayne Castle
Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland

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