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Guerric Haché

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Indie SFF author, video game developer, community scientist, animal caretaker, home cook, naturalist, curious creature

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Guerric Haché's books

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Sascha Stronach: Sunforge (2024, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers)
Valerius Geist: Mule deer country (1990, NorthWord Press, UNKNO)
Caitlin Starling: The Starving Saints (Hardcover, 2025, Harper Voyager)

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C. M. Waggoner: Village Library Demon-Hunting Society (2024, Penguin Publishing Group)
Sebastien Steyer: Earth before the dinosaurs (2012, Indiana University Press)

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Antonia Hodgson: The Raven Scholar (2025, Hodder & Stoughton)
Emily Yu-Xuan Qin: Aunt Tigress (Hardcover, DAW)
Freya Marske: A Power Unbound (Hardcover, 2023, Tordotcom)

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reviewed Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C. M. Waggoner

C. M. Waggoner: Village Library Demon-Hunting Society (2024, Penguin Publishing Group)

A librarian with a knack for solving murders realizes there is something decidedly supernatural afoot …

A nice cozy mystery, more sedate than the author's other work

I was very excited to pick this book up after reading the author's two previous works, and ended up feeling a little disappointed. It's not bad book at all - it's quite charming and very well-written. But it lacks the slightly weird, quirky feel of her previous books, and its sense of humour is more subdued and polite. I still enjoyed it quite a bit, but it just may not leave quite as lasting an impression.

reviewed The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

Antonia Hodgson: The Raven Scholar (2025, Hodder & Stoughton)

She might win the throne. She might destroy an empire. Either way, it begins with …

A fun read, with some caveats

Overall I really enjoyed this book while I was reading it. The writing is pretty strong, and the author is great at humanizing her characters, even side characters, to a degree that makes me want to study her writing. And the way the gods were integrated into the story was very fun.

On the other hand, I found the animal-themed orders into which society is divided rather tiresome and at times silly (The bears are ascetics? Has the author met a bear?), and the fact that the plot is set against the backdrop of a formalized game-like competition for the throne that has apparently been running this empire for a thousand plus years felt more distracting than helpful.

commented on Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C. M. Waggoner

C. M. Waggoner: Village Library Demon-Hunting Society (2024, Penguin Publishing Group)

A librarian with a knack for solving murders realizes there is something decidedly supernatural afoot …

Less humorous than her other books, but I'm enjoying the twist on the cozy mystery concept, and the author does a good job at portraying the character's empathy.