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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.

Blog: Testimony of Mute Things, Lois McMaster Bujold from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Sat, 09 May 2026 08:02:00 +0100

2025 fantasy novella in the World of the Five Gods (formerly known as
Chalion). Early in Pen’s career, when he’s still a sorcerer-physician
in Martensbridge, he’s […]

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

Wed, 06 May 2026 08:03:00 +0100

2021 urban fantasy romance, first of a trilogy. Nine years ago
Vivienne had a summer thing with Rhys, youngest son of the Welsh
family that founded the small and […]

Blog: Why Planes Crash Case Files 2003, Sylvia Wrigley from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 04 May 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2016 non-fiction, aviation history. Wrigley looks into a number of
aircraft incidents.

Blog: Stolen in Death, J. D. Robb from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 01 May 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2026 romance/SF/mystery; 62nd novel of Robb’s In Death series (SF
police procedurals). After a burglary, the multimillionaire is dead,
and his secret vault of […]

Blog: Danger Point, Patricia Wentworth from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:01:00 +0100

1941 mystery/thriller, fourth in the Miss Silver series. Lisle
Jerningham is newly married, but nervy; someone who knows her
husband’s family has been talking […]

Blog: The Flying Legion, George Allen England from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:02:00 +0100

1920 adventurous SF novel. Bored after the War, "The Master"
determines to gather some like-minded people and find Adventure!

Blog: The Lady With the Gun Asks the Questions, Kerry Greenwood from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:02:00 +0100

2021 historical detection short stories, in Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher
series (1920s flapper detective in Australia).

Blog: Collision Course, Michelle Diener from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2024 SF/romance, sixth in (and a late addition to) the Class 5 series.
Dav, Sazo and a pregnant Rose are on the expedition to make contact
with the race that built […]

Blog: Deep Wizardry, Diane Duane from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:02:00 +0100

1985 fantasy for children (and everyone else), second of its series.
Nita and Kit are on a family holiday on Long Island, when a
whale-wizard in distress invites […]

Blog: Brigands & Breadknives, Travis Baldree from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100

2025 fantasy. Fern the bookseller, whom we met in Bookshops &
Bonedust, sells up and moves to the city of Thune to set up again
next to Viv’s coffee shop. But it […]

jeffjohns joined the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:23:31 +0100

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

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:03:00 +0100

2021 historical mystery; ninth in Huber’s Lady Darby series
(post-Regency amateur detection). As the cholera epidemic is starting
to fade in Edinburgh and Lady […]

Blog: The Missing and the Dead, Stuart MacBride from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

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

2015 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, ninth in the Logan
McRae series. As the rescue of a serial killer’s victim involves
enough procedural irregularity to […]

Blog: Shadow of Mars, Glynn Stewart from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:03:00 +0100

2026 SF, eighteenth of its series. Chimera is still occupied, and the
force that’s hiding to conserve its strength for the day of liberation
is having to watch as […]

Blog: Enchanting the Fae Queen, Stephanie Burgis from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:01:00 +0100

2026 romantic fantasy, second of its series. Gerard de Moireul is the
Golden Beacon, the Empire’s most popular and successful general. He’s
clearly going to lead […]

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

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:02:00 +0000

2025 paranormal fantasy, eighth of a nine-book series. We’re gearing
up for the Big Confrontation! Time for a distraction.

Blog: A House With Good Bones, T Kingfisher from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:01:00 +0000

2023 horror. When her next archaeological dig is postponed
indefinitely, Sam moves in with her mother in grandmother’s old house.
But Mom is acting weird, and the […]

Blog: Stories of the Raksura Volume Two, Martha Wells from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:04:00 +0000

2011 fantasy anthology: five stories of the Raksura.

Blog: We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Dennis Taylor from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:02:00 +0000

2016 SF, first of what was announced as a trilogy but is now up to
five volumes. Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is
looking forward to a life […]

Blog: Hex and Hexability, Kate Johnson from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:04:00 +0000

2023 historical fantasy-romance, third of its loose series. Tiffany
Worthington has one job: to marry well and get out of her brother’s
household. This would be […]

Blog: Murder On Campus, Hazel Holt from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:04:00 +0000

1994 mystery, fifth in its series. Sheila Malory spends a semester
guest-lecturing at a small American university. Of course there are
faculty politics, and in […]

Blog: In the Market for Murder, T. E. Kinsey from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:01:00 +0000

2015 mystery collection, second in its series though first published.
Lady Hardcastle and her faithful maid Armitage deal with various
matters of murder and theft. […]

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

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:03:00 +0000

2023 SF, first of its series. Cherry Pendit has told nobody about her
oracular gift, but it’s been yelling into her mind that she needs to
find the man hiding on […]

Blog: Thicker Than Water, J D Kirk from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:01:00 +0000

2019 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, second in the Jack
Logan series. DCI Logan has transferred to Inverness because Glasgow
has too many bad memories for […]

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

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:02:00 +0000

2021 mystery, second in its series. Pentecost and Parker return to the
circus where Parker grew up, and the Tattooed Woman has just been
fatally stabbed. Something […]

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

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:04:00 +0000

2020 space opera, second in its loose series. Dr Brookllyn Jens is a
rescue medic: she jumps out of perfectly good spaceships into broken
ones, and gets the […]

Blog: Outcast, Rosemary Sutcliff from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000

1955 historical fiction for young people. Beric was found by the
Brigantes as a baby, the sole survivor of a Roman shipwreck. He grows
up as one of them. But when […]

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

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:03:00 +0000

2024 paranormal fantasy, seventh of a nine-book series. Things are
getting worse, but there’s still time for one last selfless quest.

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

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:03:00 +0000

2021 fantasy for children. The Studio Mandolini is one of several that
paints Illuminations: magical paintings that ward off mice from the
cheese or prevent fires. […]

Blog: A Word After Dying, Ann Granger from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:03:28 +0000

1997 mystery, tenth of Granger’s novels of Chief Inspector Alan Markby
and non-detective Meredith Mitchell. The couple are having some time
away in a tiny village. […]

Blog: Take Back Magic, Casey Blair from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:01:00 +0000

2024 urban fantasy, first of a trilogy. Sierra was taken to High Earth
as a child and taught magic… and was then dumped back in our own
non-magical world. She is very angry.

Blog: The Deadly Hours, Susanna Kearsley, Anna Lee Huber, Christine Trent and C.S. Harris from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:01:00 +0000

2020 historical mystery anthology, a crossover between four authors.
The pocket watch known as La Sirène has always been said to be
cursed. But is it really?

Blog: Hex and the City, Kate Johnson from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:01:00 +0000

2022 fantasy-romance, second of its loose series. Poppy got drunk
after a bad breakup, and thinks she put some real cursing magic into
one of the crystal trinkets […]

Blog: Critical Vocabulary for Romance and Mystery from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:04:00 +0000

Inspired by a conversation with Russ
Allbery, I found myself
thinking that while I know a lot of the standard science fiction terms
(FTL, big dumb object, […]

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

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:03:00 +0000

2008 romance/SF/mystery; fifth of its series but effectively
stand-alone. Sierra McIntyre may be working for a trashy tabloid, but
she’s still going after the big […]

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

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:02:00 +0000

2021 historical thriller, sixth of its series. Veronica and Stoker are
specifically not asked to look into the suspicious death of an
English female climber in a […]

Blog: I Spy an Alien, Jenny Schwartz from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:03:00 +0000

2023 SF, second of a loose series. Elif Moora hosts the interview vlog
The Human Eye, introducing the rest of Universal Society to the
human viewpoint. Then her […]

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

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:01:00 +0000

1953 Napoleonic naval fiction, eighth written and fifth by internal
chronology. Hornblower takes command of a sloop of war, the smallest
ship in the fleet that […]

Blog: Arabella, Georgette Heyer from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:03:00 +0000

1949 Regency romance. Arabella Tallant is to go to London to make a
brilliant match, and thereby provide for the rest of her family (her
mother effectively left […]

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

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:01:00 +0000

2012 contemporary police mystery, fifth in Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope
series. One of Vera’s neighbours has vanished from her house, so Vera
tracks her down… to a w […]

Blog: Notes From Small Planets, Nate Crowley from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000

2018 comedy, a guide your travels in the worlds of bad speculative
fiction.

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

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:02:00 +0000

2022 fantasy anthology. What happens to the other girl whom the
glass slipper fits? How do you cope when your baby manifests his
dreams?

Blog: 2025 in Books from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000

In 2025 I read 168 books (most novel-length, a few separate novellas
and short stories).

Blog: Hex Appeal, Kate Johnson from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:04:00 +0000

2022 fantasy-romance, first of a series. Essie Winterscale lives at
the unreliable Beldam House with several other witches (only some of
them dead), and her job is […]

Blog: Without a Trace 1970-2016, Sylvia Wrigley from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:04:00 +0000

2019 non-fiction, aviation history. Wrigley looks into a number of
cases of aircraft oddities, particularly disappearances.

Blog: Fortune Favors the Dead, Stephen Spotswood from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 09:03:00 +0000

2020 mystery, first in its series. Circus brat Willowjean Parker is
recruited by Lilian Pentecost, the great detective who’s finding
herself less able to manage the […]

Blog: Drowned Country, Emily Tesh from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000

2020 fantasy novella. Henry Silver is brought out of his rural
retirement to help find a young lady thought to have been taken by a
vampire.

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

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:03:00 +0000

2024 paranormal fantasy, sixth of a nine-book series. Not only does
Lorelei have an unwelcome house guest, the Wild Hunt is on the way.