Alien Sunset rated Strange Practice: 5 stars

Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw
"Meet Greta Helsing, fast-talking doctor to the undead. Keeping the supernatural community not-alive and well in London has been her …
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"Meet Greta Helsing, fast-talking doctor to the undead. Keeping the supernatural community not-alive and well in London has been her …
how the heck does the Brooklyn Public Library have unlimited copies of this?!? no, never mind, I don't care, I need some good T. Kingfisher fluff. I'll just have to put the others on hold even though they all have, like 8 week waiting lists.
Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very …
When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that's seen …
so, I'm pretty sure that I've read this one before too. but sometime before I started recording my books on Goodreads, which means sometime between it's publication in 2014 and 2017, I also think I've read the next one (A Closed and Common Orbit which came out in 2016) as well, as I just mainlined right through series' back then, but those were likely the only two available.
but FAR too much is reeeely familiar, and the disconnect between having read it on (likely) paper vs listening to it now means that my brain isn't pulling the memories up cleanly. also, it was long enough ago that a lot has just generally faded. (I went looking through my goodreads history, and a lot of the books from 2017 I remember reading, but don't remember anything that happened, and there are quite a few that i just have no immediate memoye …
so, I'm pretty sure that I've read this one before too. but sometime before I started recording my books on Goodreads, which means sometime between it's publication in 2014 and 2017, I also think I've read the next one (A Closed and Common Orbit which came out in 2016) as well, as I just mainlined right through series' back then, but those were likely the only two available.
but FAR too much is reeeely familiar, and the disconnect between having read it on (likely) paper vs listening to it now means that my brain isn't pulling the memories up cleanly. also, it was long enough ago that a lot has just generally faded. (I went looking through my goodreads history, and a lot of the books from 2017 I remember reading, but don't remember anything that happened, and there are quite a few that i just have no immediate memoye of at all, not even the covers!
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, …
Abandoned at birth in the perilous Deepwoods, Twig Verginix is brought up by a family of woodtrolls. One cold night, …
M. R. Carey: The Devil You Know (Paperback, 2008, Grand Central Publishing)
Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stamping ground. It may seem like a good ghostbuster can …
Catherynne M. Valente (duplicate): Space opera (2018)
"Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the …