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Where the Fruit Falls by Karen Wyld
5.0
Amazing book, tracing one family through several generations. The story follows their griefs and traumas, connections to country and their strength and endurance.
Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest
4.0
I love this (way too short) series.
Leda Foley is a travel agent - and an inconsistent psychic with abilities she doesn't trust yet. All she knows is, sometimes she gets feelings and, if she acts on them, sometimes it helps.
One of those feelings prompts her to make a booking change for one of her clients, which possibly saves his life when the plane he should have been on crashes on the runway. That gets his attention, and he asks her to help him out on a stalled case.
There are lots of police procedurals where a non-cop ends up working with a cop, and lots of explanations for how it all comes about. This one's unusual, at least, and the perfect lead-in to the rest of the book and its sequel, Flight Risk.
It's a great mix of procedural and psychic stuff - low on spooky, but high on feeling like you're really making friends with some fun characters. Leda and her friend Nikki would be terrific friends to have in your life, and Grave Reservations is a fun introduction to them. Light and sparkling can be a hard ask in a murder mystery, but Priest does a great job with it. The characters feel real, nobody's left carrying the idiot ball because the plot requires it, the story keeps moving at a decent clip while still allowing time for character-building moments.
All in all, a heap of fun to read.
Leda Foley is a travel agent - and an inconsistent psychic with abilities she doesn't trust yet. All she knows is, sometimes she gets feelings and, if she acts on them, sometimes it helps.
One of those feelings prompts her to make a booking change for one of her clients, which possibly saves his life when the plane he should have been on crashes on the runway. That gets his attention, and he asks her to help him out on a stalled case.
There are lots of police procedurals where a non-cop ends up working with a cop, and lots of explanations for how it all comes about. This one's unusual, at least, and the perfect lead-in to the rest of the book and its sequel, Flight Risk.
It's a great mix of procedural and psychic stuff - low on spooky, but high on feeling like you're really making friends with some fun characters. Leda and her friend Nikki would be terrific friends to have in your life, and Grave Reservations is a fun introduction to them. Light and sparkling can be a hard ask in a murder mystery, but Priest does a great job with it. The characters feel real, nobody's left carrying the idiot ball because the plot requires it, the story keeps moving at a decent clip while still allowing time for character-building moments.
All in all, a heap of fun to read.
What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
4.0
I'm a solid fan of T Kingfisher's Sworn Soldier series, of which this is the second instalment. It's a fairly short novella, but it does a great job of building on the characters established in What Moves The Dead. Alex Easton returns, accompanied by Angus and his expressive mustache and Ms Eugenie Potter.
Easton returns to kan's family's estate, only to discover that nobody is there, and nobody will come and work there. The rest of the story is Easton discovering why that is.
Easton returns to kan's family's estate, only to discover that nobody is there, and nobody will come and work there. The rest of the story is Easton discovering why that is.