Coffee Served by an Orc! Pastries cooked by a Rat/human something or other. Legends and Lattes.

 There's a subgenre of novels that are becoming more and more popular. It's called cozy fantasy. Legends and Lattes certainly fit this description. An orc, originally a paid killer, wants to open a coffee shop in a town that only knows tea. The help she gets, the friends she makes, and the accomplishment of her dreams makes this a fun, sweet book.

If you like fantasy, but get a little tired of sword fights, or laser battles, or characters who want to be king when they could be happy with a coffee shop, you'll like Legends and Lattes.

I'd like to thank myself for buying myself the kindle version of Legends and Lattes.

                                                The Human/Rat/Thingamajig pastry chef is adorable. 

Walking In a Winter Wonderland...with a psychopath. A Review of Dead of Winter

 These people fell for the oldest scam in the world. If mysterious tickets arrive for you, don't go. Do not go! DO NOT GO. Somebody wants you out of the house and your head on a stick.

Dead of Winter is a good mystery, lots of bloody horror, and lots and lots of snow. Read this on a summer day. It will make you feel icy cold. The antagonist went through an awful lot of trouble, expense, and toe-numbing cold and it seemed like he could do the same things in an easier, cheaper, warmer way, but hey, that would be a much shorter book. Lots of violence and snow. Red shows up so much better on otherwise pristine white.

Thank you to Poison Pen Press and Netgalley for allowing me to read, review, and get the chills from Dead of Winter.

How Are You? she demanded. Fine, she barked. A Review of The Water Tower

 The Water Tower has a fantastic premise, but I think it could have used a little more editing. The attributions to the speakers seemed excessive. Characters rarely said anything. They barked their dialogue or demanded an answer even if it was a common question. Demanding answers is kind of hostile. Sometimes a character

"smiled" their dialogue. How does one smile dialogue. Maybe it's just a pet peeve of mine, but when it comes to attributions, less is more. 
  
Like I said, the premise is a good one. The main character kept telling everyone about her discoveries, her friends, her new boyfriend, absolutely everyone knew about her sleuthing. Some things are better left unsaid, which she found out the hard way. So, the idea of the story was fine, but I wanted to tell the protagonist to be quiet. 

Thanks to Netgalley and Level Best Books for allowing me to read and review an eARC of The Water Tower.

The Uses of Spit. A Review of Wolfsong by T.J. Klune

 Ok, so I love TJ Klune's books. Usually, the novels have strangers coming together to make a loving family. Wolfsong is the same...but with werewolves! Except, they're not just werewolves, they're swearwolves. Oh my, there was an abundance of the f word. I can't afford an f word-o-meter so you'll just have to take my word for it. And lots of violence of the werewolf kind, but these werewolves eat vegetables. The violence is between the veggie-eating wolves and the rogue werewolves. Humans can join the werewolves! What fun! Except for getting mauled and mangled. That might hurt. What else? Some graphic gay sex. I learned new ways that spit can be used. After three or four pages of graphic sex, I wanted to yell, "Too much information!" I'm more of a squeaking bed springs kind of reader.

Wolfsong has many of the attributes that Mr. Klune's other books having. But, if you're looking for The House on the Cerulean Sea, this ain't it. It has a sweet story involving a young kid and a blended family but with sex, violence, and swearwolves...I mean werewolves. Well written and great as a horror story...with spit.

Thanks to Tor and Netgalley for allowing me to read and review Wolfsong.