#BookReview: The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older @older.bsky.social @torbooks #InvestigationsOfMossaAndPleiti #sciencefiction #sciencefictionmystery #SFmystery #climatefiction #gaslamp #steampunk #spaceopera
#BookReview: The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older
My Review: The first two Investigations of Mossa & Pleiti, The Mimicking of Known Successes and The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, both began with missing persons cases rather than the corpse that kicks off most mysteries. This third entry ALSO begins with a missing person, but not in the same way - at all. In the earlier books, the missing persons WERE the mystery, where this time the missing person is the person who usually investigates the mystery.
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July 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#BookReview: Esperance by Adam Oyebanji @dawbooks.bsky.social #AdamOyebanjiAuthor #SFmystery #ScienceFictionag/ScienceFictionMystery" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#ScienceFictionMystery #ScienceFiction #mystery
#BookReview: Esperance by Adam Oyebanji
My Review: Lake Michigan is a freshwater lake. There are no bodies of saltwater closer than the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of miles away. Unless you’re counting the gigantic saltwater tank and the Shedd Aquarium, which Chicago Police Detective Ethan Krol is forced to think about in this puzzle of a case. The double homicide that he’s been called to utterly defies explanation.
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June 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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A- #BookReview: Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com @torbooks.bsky.social #DorothyGentleman #sciencefiction #mystery #sciencefictionmystery #SFmystery
A- #BookReview: Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
My Review: Some versions of the opening line for the blurb are way, way off. A Memory Called Empire meets Miss Marple is so far off as to be misleading. (The Becky Chambers version of the blurb is somewhat better.) I’m going to do my damndest to correct that misdirection as Murder By Memory is just a terrific cozy mystery that just so happens to be set on a spaceship.
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March 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#BookReview: A Study in Black Brew by Marie Howalt @mhowalt.bsky.social @spaceboybooks.bsky.social #SFmystery #ScienceFictionMystery #sciencefiction #SherlockHolmes
#BookReview: A Study in Black Brew by Marie Howalt
My Review: Kellieth ReinAraneinth is caught between multiple rocks and abundant hard places, as when the story begins they can barely catch their breath. Literally. They may not be human but their breathing and sense of smell are both compromised by on-the-job chemical exposure resulting in a condition that may not quite BE chronic asthma, but is close enough as to make no difference.
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May 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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A- #BookReview: The Heist of Hollow London by Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social #torbooks #sciencefiction #sciencefictionmystery #SFmystery #SFcaper #clones #postapocalyptic
A- #BookReview: The Heist of Hollow London by Eddie Robson
My Review: This is a caper story. It says so right there on the label, doesn’t it? And it does not disappoint - even though this isn’t quite the caper that the reader thinks it will be. It’s not even the caper that the crew participating in it think it will be. Which, of course, is part of the caper itself, because they are the ones being conned and defrauded along with pretty much everyone else.
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Doc Thorson & his students Scruggs Grady & Penny Derwood investigate tragic deaths at famed Royalty House Chocolates. The chocolates test as safe & pure, yet they bring tragedy to many who sample them.
Doc Thorson & his students Scruggs Grady & Penny Derwood investigate tragic deaths at famed Royalty House Chocolates. The chocolates test as safe & pure, yet they bring tragedy to many who sample them.
November 18, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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#TheWriteWomen 💙📚
The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day. It has to be a book you’ve read and one you enjoyed or learned something from.
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Fun stand-alone book for fans of The Thin Man stories. 💃🏼🤵🏼♂️🕵🏼🐕
The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day. It has to be a book you’ve read and one you enjoyed or learned something from.
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Day 21
Fun stand-alone book for fans of The Thin Man stories. 💃🏼🤵🏼♂️🕵🏼🐕
March 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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