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Blog: How To Steal a Galaxy, Beth Revis from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:05:00 +0100

2024 science fiction novella, second of a trilogy. Ada is back on the
job, infiltrating a museum gala in order to do… something.

Blog: Thornhedge, T Kingfisher from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:04:00 +0100

2023 fantasy novella. The fairy has been guarding the wall of thorns
around the keep where the princess sleeps, and then the knight
arrives.

Blog: Ode to the Half-Broken, Suzanne Palmer from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:02:00 +0100

2026 SF. Forty years ago the world fell apart. Our narrator, who
remembers it, just wants to be left alone to study ants. But someone
has stolen its leg…

Blog: Hornblower and the Hotspur, C. S. Forester from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:02:00 +0100

1962 Napoleonic naval fiction, tenth written and third by internal
chronology. It’s 1802, and the Peace of Amiens is breaking down;
Commander Hornblower is given a […]

Blog: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me, Ilona Andrews from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:02:00 +0100

2026 fantasy, first in a possible series. Maggie Haley went to sleep
one night and woke up naked in a ditch in her favourite fantasy
series. She has nothing but a […]

Blog: A Sinister Revenge, Deanna Raybourn from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:04:00 +0100

2023 historical thriller, eighth of its series. Several university
friends, mostly not in touch for years, are being murdered one by one.
One of them is Stoker’s […]

Blog: Darksight Dare, Lois McMaster Bujold from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:02:00 +0100

2026 fantasy novella in the World of the Five Gods (formerly known as
Chalion). A hedge-sorcerer is dying, and the Temple has a use for her
demon, if the demon […]

Blog: Cold Days at Castle Drax, Charlotte E. English from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0100

2024 short horror-fantasy novel. Castle Drax is falling apart, and the
only way for the family to survive is to sell it, though nobody wants
to.

Blog: The Moth Catcher, Ann Cleeves from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0100

2015 contemporary police mystery, seventh in Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope
series. In rural Northumberland, the house sitter for the local Big
House is found dead beside […]

Blog: Radiant Star, Ann Leckie from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2026 SF, set in the same universe as the Imperial Radch series but not
part of the trilogy. The Temporal Location of the Radiant Star is a
pilgrimage site on the […]

Blog: The Cloak and Its Wizard, R. Z. Nicolet from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:03:00 +0100

2025 fantasy. The Cloak of Sunset and Starlight is a major
artifact—meaning it has a mind of its own. It’s been sitting in the
vault of the Order of the Open Eye s […]

Blog: A House By Any Other Name, Jenny Schwartz from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:02:00 +0100

2024 fantasy, linked to the Uncertain Sanctuary series. Raisa is a
lawyer who gets tapped as the advocate for a newly-discovered alien
species. By the time she gets […]

Blog: The Chinese Shawl, Patricia Wentworth from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:05:00 +0100

1943 mystery/thriller, fifth in the Miss Silver series. Laura Fane
is newly of age, and in London to take charge of her inheritance. She
meets a smashing young man, […]

Blog: A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:03:00 +0100

2025 fantasy mystery, second in the series. On the border of the
Empire, a new member of the mission negotiating with a petty kingdom
has disappeared from his room […]

Blog: In the Cold Dark Ground, Stuart MacBride from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:03:00 +0100

2016 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, tenth in the Logan
McRae series. A missing-persons investigation has just turned up a
body in the woods, killed and […]

Blog: Nobody's Baby, Olivia Waite from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:02:00 +0100

2026 science fiction mystery novella. Dorothy Gentleman, ship’s
detective aboard a starship on a thousand-year voyage, is confronted
with something that simply […]

Blog: Yours Wickedly, Stephanie Burgis from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:03:00 +0100

2025 fantasy-romance epistolary short story. The Wild Witch of the
Withering Woods writes to the Wicked Wizard of the Westering Waste in
order to get back the […]

Blog: Cart and Cwidder, Diana Wynne Jones from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0100

1975 children’s fantasy, first of a loose series but it stands alone.
After the last king died, Dalemark was effectively divided between its
Earls, and the South is […]

Blog: A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, Stephanie Burgis from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:04:00 +0100

2025 romantic fantasy novella, second of its series. Margaret Lady
Riven is on honeymoon with her vampire husband, at an inn in the
middle of the Black Forest…

Blog: Murder Crossed Her Mind, Stephen Spotswood from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:04:00 +0100

2023 mystery, fourth in its series. Pentecost and Parker are engaged
to look into the disappearance of an elderly woman with a photographic
memory.

Blog: A Useful Woman, Darcie Wilde from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:03:00 +0100

2018 Regency mystery, first of a series, by Sarah Zettel writing as
Darcie Wilde. After her father’s business dealings came to ruin and he
fled with her elder […]

Blog: With All Due Speed, Celia Lake from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2022 romantic fantasy short stories, more scenes set after the
events of Eclipse.

Blog: The Wreck of a World, W Grove from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:02:00 +0100

1890 scientific romance novella. In the far distant future of 1948,
the machines are revolting…

Blog: Call the Dead Again, Ann Granger from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0100

1998 mystery, eleventh of Granger’s novels of Chief Inspector Alan Markby
and non-detective Meredith Mitchell. A local lawyer and minor European
luminary has his […]

Blog: The Work of Art, Mimi Matthews from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2018 Regency romance. Phyllida Satterthwaite has always been thought
more odd than beautiful, but in her London season that oddity makes
her a sensation—and one t […]

Blog: A Perilous Perspective, Anna Lee Huber from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2022 historical mystery; tenth in Huber’s Lady Darby series
(post-Regency amateur detection). The Gages are staying at a remote
castle for a wedding party; but when […]

Blog: Banshee, Lindsay Rumbold from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2024 Cold War espionage and aviation thriller. In 2022, an
undocumented bunker turns up during construction work on a former RAF
base, containing squadron paperwork […]

Blog: Vanishing Point, Marcia Muller from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:04:00 +0100

2006 mystery, twenty-third in Muller’s series about Sharon McCone,
private investigator in San Francisco. Over twenty years ago, a woman
vanished; a few days later, […]

Blog: Full Speed to a Crash Landing, Beth Revis from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2024 science fiction novella, first of a trilogy. Ada Lamarr is a
salvager, but there’s a hole in the side of her ship and her suit air
supply is running low. Hope […]

Blog: Platform Decay, Martha Wells from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:04:00 +0100

2026 short science fiction novel, eighth in the Murderbot series.
Murderbot is visiting a huge space habitat with the goal of rescuing
some of its humans.

Blog: Obsidian Prey, Jayne Castle from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:03:00 +0100

2009 romance/SF/mystery; sixth of its series but effectively
stand-alone. Lyra Dore found a trove of a rare sort of amber, and the
Company took it off her. And she […]

Blog: A Mexican Mystery, W Grove from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:03:00 +0100

1888 scientific romance novella. A new self-fuelling railway
locomotive turns out to be rather more effective than anyone had
supposed.

Blog: The Killing Code, J D Kirk from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:04:00 +0100

2019 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, third in the Jack
Logan series. Women are being murdered by an unusually competent
killer.

Blog: The Fairy Godmother, Mercedes Lackey from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:04:00 +0100

2004 fantasy, first of a series. Elena Klovis has a wicked stepmother
and two ugly sisters. But when they leave her to look after the house
while they flee debt […]

Blog: The Kiss Curse, Erin Sterling from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:02:00 +0100

2022 urban fantasy romance, second of a trilogy. Llewellyn ("Wells")
Jones goes back to Graves Glen, as much to get away from his static
life in Wales as to start […]

Blog: Hornblower in the West Indies, C. S. Forester from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0100

1957 Napoleonic naval fiction, ninth written and eleventh by internal
chronology. Ten years after the war ended, Admiral Hornblower, in
command of the West India […]

Blog: This Brutal Moon, Bethany Jacobs from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0100

2025 SF, last of its trilogy. The colony is going to be invaded, the
rebellion is at a standstill, and the new dictator is about to make
his move…

Blog: The Mark of the Horse Lord, Rosemary Sutcliff from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0100

1965 historical fiction for young people. Phaedrus the gladiator wins
his freedom, but has no idea what to do with it, and rapidly runs into
trouble. Then he is […]

Charles Maxwell joined the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:39:23 +0100

Blog: Harbour Street, Ann Cleeves from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:04:00 +0100

2014 contemporary police mystery, sixth in Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope
series. A few days before Christmas, an old woman is stabbed on the Tyne
and Wear Metro. She was […]

Blog: 22 Dead Little Bodies, Stuart MacBride from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2015 short police procedural mystery novel, tartan noir, in the Logan
McRae series. Logan’s day starts with a failed attempt to stop a
suicidal jumper, and goes […]

Blog: The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Sat, 30 May 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2025 space opera, third in its loose series. Dr Sunya Song has
travelled to the edge of the galaxy to work on the investigation, and
evacuation, of the Baomind, a […]

Blog: The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 27 May 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2024 fantasy mystery. A high-ranking Imperial officer has been
murdered, in a particularly grotesque way. But why was he even staying
at a house belonging to one of […]

Blog: An Impossible Impostor, Deanna Raybourn from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 26 May 2026 08:02:00 +0100

2022 historical thriller, seventh of its series. A Missing Heir has
shown up. Well, maybe. Veronica knew the real man back in the day, and
is asked to see if she […]

Blog: Scarper, Jenny Schwartz from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 22 May 2026 08:02:00 +0100

2023 SF, second of its series. OK, now we know some of what’s going
on. What should we do about it?

Blog: Paladin's Faith, T Kingfisher from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Thu, 21 May 2026 08:00:00 +0100

2023 romantic fantasy. Marguerite the spy has heard of a new invention
which will change the shape of the world’s economies. Unable to trust
any old friends or […]

Blog: Half Dead, Annabel Chase from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 20 May 2026 08:02:00 +0100

2025 paranormal fantasy, last of a nine-book series. Lorelei is in
supernatural prison, and her boyfriend is being tortured by Lucifer in
person. How to give […]

Blog: Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 18 May 2026 08:01:00 +0100

1953 classic SF, collection of shorter works. The Mule is still
building his empire. Obviously that has to be stopped. Spoilers for a
73-year-old book.

Blog: The Marriage Method, Mimi Matthews from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 15 May 2026 08:00:00 +0100

2025 Victorian romance. Miles Quincey, a crusading newspaper editor,
has been looking too hard into the Academy, so its deputy
headmistress, Nell Trewlove, is sent […]

Blog: Secrets Typed In Blood, Stephen Spotswood from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 13 May 2026 08:05:00 +0100

2022 mystery, third in its series. Pentecost and Parker are back in
New York, where three murders have been committed in the style of a
particular crime writer.