Category Archives: alternate universe

My March Reading Log

Posted on April 12, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond is a paranormal heist novel set in contemporary Kentucky. Danielle Poissant is the daughter of a renowned art thief whom she helped send to prison, which led to her being shut out of the … Continue reading →

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My December Reading Log

Posted on January 12, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree is a prequel to Legends and Lattes, set early in orc narrator Viv’s career as a mercenary. When she’s sidelined in a small town by a leg wound, boredom leads her to make … Continue reading →

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My November Reading Log

Posted on December 15, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Lady And The Tiger by copperbadge is original fiction in the Shivadh universe, also published under author name Sam Starbuck; it features a romance between Lady Alanna Daskaz and the Duke of Shivadlakia, Gerald ben Eitan, known as … Continue reading →

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My September Reading Log

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

September involved some travel and other transitions for me, so I spent almost all of it reading a single series. Fanfiction: The Desert Storm by Blue_Sunshine and its sequel series are well over a million words of Star Wars time … Continue reading →

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My August Reading Log

Posted on September 15, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The School at the Chalet by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer is first in a long series of British girls’ school stories set in the Tyrol in Austria; the Chalet School is explicitly British, in that the Austrian students strive to … Continue reading →

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My February Reading Log

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Iron Children by Rebecca Fraimow will be out in early April; I read an ARC via Netgalley. In this novella, two countries are at war. The larger and more powerful Levastani want to take back the smaller country, … Continue reading →

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My January Reading Log

Posted on February 11, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Aftermath: Tides Turning (Clorinda Cathcart’s Circle Book 18) by L. A. Hall started my year off right with a check-in on old friends. I loved how the younger generation was taking up the slack to subtly change things for … Continue reading →

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My December Reading Log

Posted on January 13, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson is a charming romance with older characters set in a contemporary small English village. Major Ernest Pettigrew, a widower of six years, has just been told his brother unexpectedly died, when he … Continue reading →

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My October Reading Log

Posted on November 11, 2022 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala is second in a cozy mystery series; I have not read the first book, but was easily able to follow the story. Protagonist Lila Macapagal has returned to the cozy small town … Continue reading →

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My September Reading Log

Posted on October 14, 2022 by Victoria Janssen

My September #TBRChallenge Book was Black Maestro: The Epic Life of an American Legend by Joe Drape; I also read and wrote about Wink: The Incredible Life and Epic Journey of Jimmy Winkfield by Ed Hotaling in the same post. … Continue reading →

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