Cole is the eldest son of the current Santa Claus and is viewed as a screwup by his father but not by his younger brother. Cole has come home for the Christmas season and is told he needs to marry his childhood friend Iris, the Easter Princess. To make things interesting Halloween is sending one of their princes to also court Iris as a PR move. ( Read more... )

Looking back I forgot to do a post for 2023 but checking the 2022 post I’m keeping to slightly over half my reading is review copies mostly from Edelweiss and NetGalley.  I am getting more audio review books and more audio from the library.  I need to pick up more nonfiction besides cookbooks. I did read several but didn’t bother to review any of ( Read more... )

This was a lot of fun.  A Duke on the run from his father in law plotting his murder and a Queen of Villainy fighting her uncle to keep him from taking her throne.  Neither the Duke or the Queen are what they are portrayed to their people.  Felix escapes his place and heads to Saskia’s castle to ask for help and try to prevent a war, but he is ( Read more... )

Hellboy and The BPRD: The Goddess of Manhattan [Dramatized Adaptation]

by Christopher Golden; Thomas E. Sniegoski, Full Cast Audio

Love Hellboy and this one has Liz and Abe. Set in the 1990’s with a goddess coming back to take over the surface that Lobster Johnson and his crew had defeated in the past. Good quips and great cast made me miss that ( Read more... )

Carl and Donut are still alive and on the 6th floor. There are outside groups that are not happy with how he finished the 5th floor but now for now he has made some bargains and gotten a lawyer to represent him in court cases since the lawsuits are flying thick outside the game. There is more of the outside world politics and the events that ( Read more... )

This novella is from Zane’s point of view.  At the Summer Solstice party and charged with giving a gift to a woman his grandmother expects him to wed for a financial alliance for his house. When the Techwave breaks into the research lab of the house hosting the party Zane is right on them to figure out what technology they are trying to steal. But ( Read more... )

Ropa Moyo is now working for England’s Royal Sorcerer and money seems to be coming her way in to be able to take care of her grandmother, but everything crashes down with Scottish magical society fighting in the Library and then her grandmother is murdered and she is blamed for it.  On the run from the police, her new boss turns away from her and ( Read more... )

What Song the Sirens Sang by Simon R. Green, Christopher Walker (reader), Bradley Foster Smith (reader), Colleen Delany (reader), Scott McCormick (Goodreads Author) (reader), Shanta Parasuraman (reader), Kay Eluvian (reader), Ian Russell (reader), Jenna Sharpe (reader), Keval Shah (reader), Khaya Fraites (reader)

Gideon and Annie are now in charge ( Read more... )

Sherry works as a librarian in a small town in New York and has a habit of helping the police solve murders. It sounds like a TV show and Sherry starts to realize that maybe something is causing all the deaths to happen. With the help of the town’s priest, she starts working on the latest murder and to make it worse the victim is her boyfriend.   ( Read more... )

A shipwrecked 6-year-old girl is found and is in possession of a new demon. Penric helps her learn the language of where she is and makes sure her demon doesn’t go into ascension.  Everyone thinks that the best course of action is to rid her of it since demons should be in adults but this is Penric and things don’t always go the way they should. A ( Read more... )