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Life's too short to finish books you're not getting getting something out of.

Voracious genre fiction reader--mostly science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery.

Current favourite authors: TJ Klune, Becky Chambers, Martha Wells (Murderbot!!!).

Pronouns: xe or they series

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Enter a world of magic and myth, where foxes fall in love and robots build …

Gorgeous bite-sized stories

Fables, really. That's what they feel like, in most cases. Absolutely lovely and twisty and fine. Some pretty little watercolors in it, too.

reviewed Smash & Grab by Maz Maddox (RELIC, #1)

My standard issued lab badge reads 'Simon' but it really should say 'unexciting nerd with …

Fun, quick, and geeky

Fun, contemporary action/romance (m/m) with fossils, a road trip, and dinosaur-based geekiness.

The adventure: A paleontologist and a pink-mohawked punk on the run from a private fossil hunter's goons.

The romance: Opposites-attract. Sweet + chaotic.

reviewed The Limehouse Text by Will Thomas (Barker & Llewelyn, #3)

Will Thomas: The Limehouse Text (2006)

In The Limehouse Text, Barker and Llewelyn discover a pawn ticket among the effects of …

First person narrator makes terrible choices

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This Holmes-inspired/influenced series has all sorts of interesting historical details about Victorian-era London, which is why I picked up the third book in the series after a break (finished the second back at the beginning of the year). What I'd forgotten is that, outside the mystery itself, in large part the action is based on the first-person narrator making terrible choices. Yes, Llewelyn is young and inexperienced. Yes, you know he won't actually die because he's the narrator (he's Watson to Barker's Holmes). So if you don't mind wanting to bang your head on a wall due to the narrator's continued levels of folly and inanity, by all means, read this series.

Sweet romance anthology

As usual with multi-author anthologies, this collection had a wide range of stories, not all of which appealed to me. The writing overall was engaging, and the stories generally very sweet in keeping with the holiday theme. My favourite was KD Casey's "The Koufax Curse" (m/m) set around Tu Bishvat and baseball's spring training, followed closely by Hudson Lin's "Their Dragonboat" (f/nb).

Reluctant hero meets trickster and they save the world

Thoroughly enjoyed this story, set between the wars in London. KJ Charles added lots of historical details without overwhelming the story line, and the pacing of the action/mystery was just right for me. (Note to romance readers: while there is a relationship, this isn't really a romance. Ends more with a truce than a HFN.)

This was the first Cornell Collins audio book I've listened to, and his accents and voices were very enjoyable.