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Review: Under Fortunate Stars – Ren Hutchings

May 8, 2022 Leave a Comment

I picked this up because of the gorgeous cover, and I’m glad I did! It’s a really good, extremely satisfying time travel space opera. “This is too strange to be a coincidence. It’s all connected somehow,” she said. “The engine problem, the Rift, that distress call… it’s all linked. And we need to figure outRead the Post

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Review: Dark Deeds – Michelle Diener

April 30, 2022 Leave a Comment

I very much enjoyed the first book in this series (AIs! Aliens! And a dash of romance!) so of course I immediately borrowed the next one. It’s both very similar and very different from the first book, but I still had a great time reading it. Grih battleship captain Hal is not having a goodRead the Post

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Review: Dark Horse – Michelle Diener

April 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

I’m not usually a fan of alien abduction books, but I originally picked this up back in 2020 and it was absolute brain catnip. Watching these characters “dealing with a crisis, wrapped in a disaster, surrounded by a mystery” was ridiculously fun, so when I heard the final book in the series was coming out,Read the Post

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Review: Hunt the Stars – Jessie Mihalik

February 1, 2022 Leave a Comment

Hunt the Stars

I have basically two responses to a book I absolutely, ridiculously love. I either make tons of highlights because I just love every single line of prose, or I highlight almost nothing because I’m too caught up in the story. This book is definitely of the second variety. It also hits all of the rightRead the Post

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Review: Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves – Meg Long

January 13, 2022 Leave a Comment

I’m a sucker for kid-and-their-dog books, and this is a high-stakes scifi version of that. It’s the perfect book for reading while snowed in and cuddling your own dog. “No wolves. No sleds. No racing.” I say it automatically despite the lump in my throat. “Foolish rule for life on a planet that revolves aroundRead the Post

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Review: Fated Blades – Ilona Andrews

November 22, 2021 Leave a Comment

Folks, folks, folks! This is an enemies-to-lovers fated-mates trope, if the fated connection made the couple unstoppable killing machines. From the moment I heard there was a new Kinsmen novella coming out, I was ridiculously excited. And when the Luisa J. Preissler cover art came out? Pretty much incoherent (and yes, in case you wereRead the Post

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Review: The Kinsmen Universe – Ilona Andrews

November 20, 2021 Comment : 1

The Kinsmen Universe

This is a set of two novellas and a short story all in the Kinsmen universe. These predate a lot of the Andrews’ later work, so you can see the genesis of some ideas that are refined in later work, like the concept of the kinsmen families which become the houses in Hidden Legacy, orRead the Post

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Review: Even Greater Mistakes – Charlie Jane Anders

November 17, 2021 Leave a Comment

Even Greater Mistakes

While I haven’t read any of Charlie Jane Anders’ novels, I’d read a lot of her work on Tor, and very much enjoyed her bookstore short story that I’d read as part of a year’s best anthology. I’ve loved anthologies since I was a kid, as the yearly SFF anthologies were one of the few genreRead the Post

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Review: Meteors and Menorahs – Nessa Claugh

November 11, 2021 Leave a Comment

Meteors and Menorahs

The absolutely adorable cover caught my eye, and when I found out it was a fake relationship romance with an alien set during a just-one-bed family visit for Hanukkah? Heck yeah! There seems to be an endless amount of alien Santa books, but not much for other cultures. Leah, an anesthesiologist, and Knar, a physicalRead the Post

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Review: Far from the Light of Heaven – Tade Thompson

October 27, 2021 Leave a Comment

Far from the Light of Heaven

This book is everything I want in a space mystery. I love locked room mysteries, and this book utterly blew me away with its version on a spaceship. It’s utterly thought-provoking and extremely hard to put down! “Let me get this straight. You have never investigated a killing on board a large spacecraft?” “Any spacecraft,Read the Post

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Hi, my name is Lauren, and I’m the Reading Llama! I love reading books. My favorites usually include a female protagonist with at least a little bit of romance.

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