All Her Fault by Andrea Mara is a solid thriller. It had a good red herring that I thought was going to be connected to the crime but then wasn't. I haven't watched the show, so no idea (yet) if it's also good. CN: murder, child kidnapping, past child death.

I am drowning in a soup of hormone-induced bad feelings today, so we can be miserable together.

I wish! I have to take my shoes and ankle brace off for mine, which makes it harder to do at miscellaneous times.

The basic plot is a young man escorting a young woman who is a witch to a convent. They fall in love and have adventures. It has an open but hopeful ending. I was really glad to find the sentence that I had slightly misremembered and find that it is real in a real book I read.

The Spellkey (1987 single book, not the 1994 trilogy edition) by Ann Downer is a YA fantasy novel I read as a kid or teenager and have vaguely remembered for years. I really enjoyed it. It's a solid fantasy story with lots of fairy tale-ish elements and stories within it.

I bought a handful of books from my childhood in 2025 too, and I really enjoyed revisiting them, even if they turned out not to be quite as good as I remembered.

Thus ends my thread of books I read in 2025 that you might enjoy. I'll be back tomorrow-ish with a consolidated post about the best books of this year and this weekend-ish with the start of the 2026 thread.

The Change by Kirsten Miller is a novel about women who get powers with perimenopause and use them to solve/avenge the serial murders of teenage girls. I thought it was fairly good - we'll see what book club as a whole thinks. CN: terrible men, murder, past sexual assault.

Anyway, I'm free now and I can watch something good next. (And I may have ordered a bunch of movies and one TV show on DVD, in addition to the last TV show I bought on DVD and still haven't watched.)

I do approve of him and Juliet deciding not to have kids, though, and I hope that holds in future movies. How is Lassiter the actual biggest freak in this whole show?