Truly couldn't hold up under its own back half, though there was still moving stuff it there

My impulse December stack has an unexpected color scheme!

These dudes are cracking me up

Couple of horror publishers are having sales today: Ghoulish Books is doing a 31% off sale of their stuff and everything in their bookstore, and Tenebrous Press has half off ebooks. Treat yourself to some horror!

The year is not correct, but I think this book is besmirching the cinematic classic Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and this I cannot stand for!

Normally I enjoy characters this rock stupid, but these two are a bit much

Sweet natured and cozy and very autumnal, but I am having to force reading it, which is a cue to return it to the library.

I really enjoy the way Lackey writes characters hanging out, which is good, because this book (like the last one) takes nearly half the page count for some plot thing to happen.

A couple more thoughts on this Federation history:
1) fucking Malcolm Reed makes captain? And he expected to roll up and big dog the Organians?!
2) convergent evolution already exists on planet Earth, I don't think it's that radical to think it could exist across planets (the extent it exists with the humanoids does seem unlikely)

In a book full of drawings, this page was a real lol

I realize that, if I'm lucky, I will continue to get older than a lot of the leads in genre fiction, but please: don't get yourself killed by ghosts before you're even 32! It's not worth it!

Grim, gay tragedy

As if this book wasn't already gay, what with the vibes from basically moment one, and the A Separate Peace, and the Greek statuary, now they're watching Rope?!

I cannot believe the Burbank Chuck E. Cheese is in this book #FullMunch

Normally I don't care about business dealings in fiction, but it turns out when the dealings are thinly veiled takes on real life movie studio nonsense, billionaires slitting their own throats and trying to destroy an art form, well, then I care A Lot

The podcast Shelved By Genre has picked their next unit, which means I'll be reading Mercedes Lackey for the first time! I think there are psychic horses on these?

The thing about this book is, since both leads are changelings, there are a lot of serious and also fully nude conversations in the woods. Fun!

Also truly psyched to spend even a scene with Amara, the bad vibes woman. I am rooting very hard for her!

If one of these books is focused on these reporters, maybe in some kind of more-violent-less-fun His Girl Friday situation, I'm going to throw a parade

Listen, if you want some polyamorous epic fantasy with a fun pantheon with cool powers, well, I don't know if you -have- many other options, but this is a great one!

God, it rules when a starchy hero gets entirely unmade by his own emotions

Me, reading: wait, a capital A looks like a mountain, this is a book about a mountain called Ascension and also the narrator is definitely autistic, do the As mean anything?????

Hate it when that happens

A different book would get into how living in a super haunted town might lead to an exhibitionist kink, but I don't think this one will. Shame.

Also, I would NEVER stop texting the group chat about my haunted house, no matter how little they cared

"Living in a tourist town would be heaven on earth if it weren't for all the damn tourists."

I'm watching you, Florida-set book, but this is a fairly promising early sign

It was charming! Don't know if it's uncommonly so, but there you go.

Following my instinct to bail on a book when the idea of reading it makes me go "ugh"; this is my third try with this author, and my third bail. I just don't think we get on!

"the maestro of feminine wetness"
oh good lord

Well, this is a -little- silly

Aww man, I hope the family accepts Theo by the time this series is over

Oh no, this book is going to try and explain the Let's Make a Deal thing and I Just Don't Get It

Very soft pick, as the late stage complications really didn't work for me. Almost the epitome of an "I'll read the sequel if the ebook goes on sale" book

I feel like Krychek getting a first name that's getting used in this book is pointing towards him being an eventual lead, whiiiiich I've kinda been hoping for. Gonna stop reading the backs of these so that I can be surprised!

Oh you chaos gremlins, I'm glad things worked out for you (and also glad that the happy ending isn't "and we all entered into more 'normal' [aka heteronormative] living arrangement") (characters ain't queer, but the life they build kinda is)

I have maybe never wanted to send a group of characters a bag of groceries more than I do this center trio

Between a couple book store visits and some book mail, I have quite a haul today

Stop. Reading. Trad. Published. Single. POV. Romances.
- a stern note to myself

I wish I could give this a pick just for the cool Rat guy and the promise of a snake changeling, and Krychek hanging out with the personified evil psychic internet, but a lot of the load bearing stuff pulls it down just a bit too much. Give that rat a book!

Had a REALLY nasty dream inspired by this book last night, not cool book, just because I think your extremity is a little silly sometimes!

Currently chanting Rats, Rats, RATS in my head. Rats!

Meanwhile, in the heterosexual mines, I think I've come across the first *acknowledgement* of queerness in these books, 30 or so pages into book 4. Don't worry though, no one is actually gay!!!! (I will say, it is a more matter-of-fact reaction then there could have been for an aughts romance.)