pickWell, this was just delightful! I think I am entering into my cozy British mystery era! 🧐🔍
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pickWell, this was just delightful! I think I am entering into my cozy British mystery era! 🧐🔍
pickMy first KJ Charles, but definitely not my last! A truly excellent historical murder mystery where the killer is revealed but someone else emerges as the true villain. Wonderfully drawn characters and themes, including class, race, disability, abortion, and queerness as they play out in a group of friends attending Oxford in the 1890s. Ten years later, after an unsolved murder, our protagonist Jem sets out to finally find whodunnit. 🔥🍂🌧
Excellent narrator, excellent queer, creepy fun. I agree with @shanaqui that the way his family treats neurodivergent Zeb is very distressing but the romance and bizarre twists of the story are terrific. (I guessed a bit, recognizing one authorial influence -- but there was so much more!) I feel like reading the whole thing over in print now.
pickImportant warning: alongside period-typical homophobia and misogyny, the main character has ADHD and people are awful to him for it.
It took me a while to get into this as a consequence, but this evening I sat down and dug in, and loved it. Properly gothic thriller, though. For that I'll say it's a #HauntedShelf recommendation!
#BirthdayBashReadathon
#RestlessSpirits
Haunted house, crazy family with even weirder family secrets, MC with ADHD, M/M romance
#BookMail
Preordered, officially published last week and I'm surprised it's here already. My unreliable bookshop estimated it to be delivered in December. 🙄🙄
I guess this time my @DeweysReadathon is going to be packed with re-reads.
It‘s finally October!!!
🍁🍂🎃🖤🧡😭🧡🖤🎃🍂🍁
Left/vertical is #bookofthemonth #botm (finally getting that cute corduroy hat!), and bottom/horizontal is #aardvark #aardvarkbookclub … which gave us IMPOSSIBLE choices this month, so, alas, I couldn‘t get all I wanted. Why are they so good at that?? 🤔🥲 Tagged is the one I‘m moooost excited for, but it‘s a close call - their exclusive short story collection is also 🔥
Happy October!!! 🎃🍁🖤
(Ch 1) He was the very last sort of man to be murdered.
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He was the very last sort of man to become an amateur sleuth.
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Looking from the great dark bulk of the library looming in front of him to the green slope leading from the Terrace to the wide expanse of the lawn, he would often murmur to himself the words of the great Roman advocate Cicero: ‘If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.‘
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