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ARC Review – Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske
At a magical academy for mage-healers, scholar complete their final exam in a group, solving five cases over the course of five days. Estiene, Alys, Clement, Moyna, and Jehan enter the hall for their first case, only to find the most accomplished scholar in their cohort dead on the floor. After completing the first case,…
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ARC Review – The Henchperson’s Guide to Unionizing by Marshall J. Moore
On the run from yet another peasant mob after their latest attempt to create new life from corpse parts, Doctor and his faithful assistant Igor end up in the isolated Ravenwald Manor, only to find out that they are not alone there. Increasingly disillusioned with the Doctor’s quest, Igor befriends Grimalkin, a witch’s familiar, and…
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Weekly Roundup – What I Read / Listened to 8/24/26-8/30/26
By the time you’re reading this I’ll have started classes, so I’m both very excited and also slightly terrified as I’m writing this. Weirdly, I feel like I usually read more during the school year because it feels like more of an escape than it does while I’m on break. That being said, I didn’t…
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ARC Review – Trad Wife by Sarah Langan
With her career on a sudden downturn, journalist Jenny Kaplan accepts an assignment to write about Mia Wright, a trad wife influencer living on an isolated farm with her beautiful husband and seven children.Jenny goes in expecting to write a critical article exposing the disparity between Mia’s actual life and the life she show on…
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ARC Review – Strange Is the Light by Sarah Maria Griffin
Every summer while they were growing up, four friends converged on the island of Valentia to play a game of their own invention, the rules of which are defined only by the bounds of their imaginations. After a single night goes wrong and separates them, the game goes unplayed for many years until they are…
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ARC Review – She’s a Doll by Barbara Truelove
It’s bad enough being dead, but when Lucy McQuinn is murdered and wakes up in the body of antique doll, all she has on her mind is vengeance. She finds an unlikely ally in Nicola who has her own score to settle with Lucy’s killer and through some strange twist of fate is the only…
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Weekly Roundup – What I Read / Listened to 7/27/26-8/2/26
August is upon us! I read five books this week and I would say it was a pretty solid week overall, mostly just good with one real standout. I mostly stuck to the plan I laid out at the end of last week’s roundup with the exception of one book. We have one audiobook, one…
