Quiet Keystrokes and Midnight Ramblings

A few weeks ago I got a surprise in the mail. I almost missed it because we've been mail-ordering everything for more than a year (Thanks, Pandemic!) and when the package came in, it was with a bunch of bulk packages I wasn't in a hurry to open. So I was very excited when I opened this one and discovered a good friend of mine had sent me a gift. A hardcover edition of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue . In true "this is my life" fashion, I was in the middle of reading a very boring, long, drawn-out self-help book when Addie LaRue arrived and I had to get through that before I picked up another book. I swore to myself I would finish that thing, and I did, and you don't see a review for it on this blog because, well, if you don't have something nice to say, you shouldn't say anything at all. So I was beside myself with glee when I got through the slog of The-Book-That-Will-Not-Be-Named so I could pick up this deeply immersive novel by V.E. Schwab. But I didn...

  (Paid Link) In the middle of 2020 crazytown, I happened to bump into Tabi Slick online. She was celebrating the release of The Detective's Nightmare , and invited me along for the ride. Before the event, I read the novel's prequel, The Unforgiveable Act   and was wonderfully surprised at the magic Tabi has managed to weave into the Beaumont Bros. Circus. Though, it makes sense that the circus would be made up with people who have strange and unexplainable magical abilities. And now that I've started reading the series, I want to know more about each character's mysterious magic. In The Detective's Nightmare , a catastrophic shipwreck lands the circus in the port of Halifax. They survive the wreckage only to get caught in the middle of a string of mysterious murders with clues that point to a dangerous magic lurking in the shadows. Detective Davies is certain the circus is behind the odd murders, and he'll stop at nothing to catch them. If you enjoy steampunk, ...