Review Illusive (Illusive #1) – Emily Lloyd-Jones

THEY ARE YOUNG. THEY ARE CRIMINALS. THEY ARE IMMUNE. When the MK virus swept across the planet, a vaccine was created to stop the epidemic, but it came with some unexpected side effects. A small percentage of the population developed superhero-like powers, and Americans suffering from these so-called adverse effects were given an ultimatum: Serve……

Review The Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke

Two orphaned brothers have run away to Venice, where crumbling canals and misty alleyways shelter a secret community of street urchins. The leader of this motley crew of lost children is a clever, charming boy who calls himself the Thief Lord. and he has a dark secret. Something from a forgotton past that poses a……

Review The Executioner’s Heart (Newbury and Hobbes #4) – George Mann

A serial killer is loose on the streets of London, murdering apparently random members of the gentry with violent abandon. The corpses are each found with their chest cavities cracked open and their hearts removed. Charles Bainbridge, Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, suspects an occult significance to the crimes and brings Newbury and Veronica in……

Review The Immorality Engine (Newbury and Hobbes #3) – George Mann

Gentleman Investigator for the Crown, Sir Maurice Newbury, has brilliantly solved a number of near-impossible cases for Queen Victoria along with his assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes. But while all appears well on the surface, Newbury has an increasingly uncontrollable secret. What was once a flirtation with the lure of opium has turned into a full-blown……

Goodbye July – Hello August

July has come and gone, so it is time for another wrap up… This was a great reading month for me, with 10 books read and a total page count of 3206. The first week of July my fiancé was still on this side of the world, and we finished up our buddy read. After……

The Sunshine Blogger Award #3

I was nominated by Makayla @ Random Reads for the Sunshine Blogger Award!! Thank you so much! Please give her blog a visit, her posts are absolutely wonderful. I have done two posts for the Sunshine Blogger Award before, but that was quite a while ago (In June and in July 2016), and Makayla came……

Review Murder in Mesopotamia – Agatha Christie

Nurse Amy Leatheran had a most unusual patient. Louise, according to her husband, celebrated archaeologist Dr. Leif Ericsson, suffered from ‘nervous terror.’ Her fantasies were vivid and horrifying: a disembodied hand, a yellow, dead face pressed against the window. Who or what did she fear? At the site of a dig in the Iraqi desert,……