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Can’t-Wait Wednesday

26 February

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. This week’s Can’t-Wait offering: Days of Shattered Faith – Book 3 of The Tyrant Philosophers series by Adrian Tchaikovsky
release date 4th March 2025
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Review of NETGALLEY arc Mavericks: Life Stories and Lessons of History’s Most Extraordinary Misfits by Jenny Draper

24 February

I’m pleased to say that this time around, it wasn’t my shallow, let’s-follow-the-shiny side of my reading soul that was drawn to this one – it was the blurb. I’ve always had a soft spot for eccentrics and this book promised a pleasing selection of quirky people who refused to peacefully drop into their expected niches.
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Can’t-Wait Wednesday

19 February

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. This week’s Can’t-Wait offering: Greenteeth – by Molly O’Neill
release date 25th February 2025
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Review of NETGALLEY arc Abduction of a Slave – Book 4 of the Eye of Isis series by Dana Stabenow

18 February

I’ve been a fan of Stabenow’s long-running murder mystery series charting the adventures of her Alaskan heroine Kate Shugak – see my reviews of A Cold Day for Murder and Less Than a Treason. Would I enjoy this series, set in ancient Egypt, as much as her previous writing?
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Review of NETGALLEY arc The Unkillable Princess – Book 2 of The Kystrom Chronicles by Taran Hunt

11 February

I thoroughly enjoyed the first book in this entertaining science fiction series, The Immortality Thief – see my review. So I was looking forward to tucking into this second slice of the adventure – would Sean’s chirpy attitude prevail in the face of the current difficulties that he’s now facing?
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Can’t-Wait Wednesday

5 February

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. This week’s Can’t-Wait offering: Mavericks by Jenny Draper
release date 11th February 2025
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Review of NETGALLEY arc Stone Certainty – Book 2 of the Holy Terrors series by Simon R. Green

5 February

I’m a fan of Green’s writing. See my reviews of his Ishmael Jones series, featuring an alien dark ops agent and his alluring sidekick, Penny, in Buried Memories, The Dark Side of the Road, Very Important Corpses, Death Shall Come, Into the Thinnest of Air, Murder in the Dark, Till Sudden Death Do Us Part, Night Train to Murder, The House on Widow’s Hill and his paranormal James Bond hero in The Man With the Golden Torc. I also thoroughly enjoyed the first four books in this fantasy heist series, The Best Thing You Can Steal, A Matter of Death and Life, What Song the Sirens Sang, Not of This World and Where Is Anybody? So when Green introduced a new series with The Holy Terrors last year, I was excited to be able to get hold of an arc – and looked forward to tucking into this second offering.
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Review of INDIE Ebook Lines of Departure – Book 2 of the Frontlines series by Marko Kloos

31 January

I wrote the following review way back in February 2021, before I got sick with Covid and the world fell on my head. After writing this review, I also read the next five books in the series, waited for the final instalment and then promptly forgot about it. I’ve added Center of Gravity to my TBR pile as I thoroughly enjoyed this military space opera adventure against some truly nasty aliens and want to know how it ends.
I was looking for more space opera in my life, when Himself reminded me that I’d started this series a while ago and hadn’t got any further with it – see my review of Terms of Enlistment. I was horrified to discover that I’d read and reviewed this one back in 2018! And this is why I’m trying to focus on completing more series that I’ve started and enjoyed…
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Can’t-Wait Wednesday

29 January

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. This week’s Can’t-Wait offering: Abduction of a Slave – Book 4 of the Eye of Isis series by Dana Stabenow
release date 30th February 2025
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