Welcome to Litsy!

You know, these are kinda fun. It was a bit like, “What if Sherlock Holmes were into investigating the Supernatural?” My favorite was the guy who visited his old school which was a monastery, now in ruins. His old teachers are there, and they haven‘t aged. He realizes they‘re demonic monks a little too late because the dark magic ceremony is *happening* but John Silence comes to his rescue.

With her kids out of the house and her husband passed on, Twyla let her best friend, Frank, talk her into joining the Tanria Marshals to be his partner. Eight years later the Marshals are reduced to glorified park rangers… until dragons are discovered.
Twyla and Frank‘s easy friendship suddenly gets more complicated when a dragon expert joins their group and they all get caught up in a smuggling plot.

I won‘t say much about this to avoid spoilers other than…..aaaaaaahhhhhh! 😩🥰💙🙏🥹😀😢😂😒 Read or listen to this book. If you like morally gray, enemies to lovers, smut, world building, fantasy and Fae and Alchemy and other cool things! Also 🦊!!

If you like the Robin Hood story, you will love this one. The prequel of how Robin Hood came to be and all his merry men. It was a chunksters but a page turner. One for #SnowyDecemberReathathon ✔️ done. One spot for #ISpyBingoDec @TheAromaofBooks
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‘This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession....‘

Dark and seductive, this is a deliciously written tale of passion and deceit, and the bonds forged between the rival consorts of Dracula.

Book 1/Vampire Companion ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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This was such a cute read. It takes place around Winter Solstice, so it‘s a great one for this time of year. It‘s a bit of a respite from what happened in the previous book, and what has yet to happen. Our characters get some much needed fun, and there were plenty of funny moments (and a couple of 🌶️ ones). They‘re still emotionally dealing with all that has transpired, some handling it worse than others. Let‘s see what happens in the next one…

Found these 2 lovely characters in Sainsburys, had to get them for the tree. #matilda #BFG #christmas #ornaments

My god, how to describe it? LeGuin spent 5 years creating and bringing to life the post-environmental-apolcalypse fictional culture of the Kesh. She invented their language and their sacred customs and their poetry and their music (with the help of a composer). Then she put it all into a 600 page tome. It's her Silmarillion. I didn't read this all in one go but came and went. By the end I knew everything about these people. Not for the casual.

I've been striking out a lot lately and feeling dissatisfied with the writing style of many of the newer authors I've been picking up. So, having remembered I liked the couple of Guy Gavriel Kay novels I've read in the past, I decided to work through his oevre. And you've got to admit, this blurb right here is a heckuva flex.

Holy Hell(diver)! That was an intense finale to the Red Rising Trilogy. Even the plot twists had plot twists. Crisp, intentional writing with not a single wasted word. Darrow enters the third installment more broken than he ever had been in the previous two books. An amazing finale that sated my hunger for revenge and justice.