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Booklog 2023
Dec. 31st, 2023 01:44 amMy Booklog 2023
1. Lois McMaster Bujold: Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance – Vorkisiverse #18
2. Dennis E Taylor: For We Are Many – Bobiverse #2
3. Sebastien de Castell: Knights’ Shadow – Greatcoats #2 Audiobook
4. Ian McDonald: Luna – New Moon – Luna #1
5. Juliet E McKenna: Thief’s Gamble – Einarinn #1
6. T. Kingfisher: What Moves the Dead
7. Anne Lyle: The Dead Dragon Job
8. Peter McLean: Priest of Bones – War for the Rose Throne #1
9. Juliet E McKenna: The Cleaving
10. Lily Harlem: Lyon at the Altar – The Lyons’ Den Connected World
11. Julia Quinn (and others): The Lady Most Willing
12. Sebastien de Castell: The Malevolent Seven
13. Peter McLean: Priest of Lies – War for the Rose Throne #2
14. Tade Thompson: Far From the Light of Heaven
15. Peter McLean: Priest of Gallows – War for the Rose Throne #3
16. Peter McLean: Priest of Crowns – War for the Rose Throne #4
17. Lex Croucher: Gwen and Art are Not in Love
18. Elizabeth W Watkins: The Reluctant Baronet
19. W.A. Simpson: Tarotmancer
20. C. J. Archer: The Librarian of Crooked Lane
21. Rebecca Yarros: Fourth Wing – Empyrian #1
22. John Scalzi: Starter Villain
23. Patricia Briggs: Soul Taken – Mercy Thompson #13
24. Mat Osman: The Ghost Theatre
25. Jodi Taylor: The Good, the Bad and the History – Chronicles of St Mary’s #14
26. Liz Williams: Salt on the Midnight Fire – Fallow Sisters #4
27. Becky Chambers: A Closed and Common Orbit
28. Brent Weeks: Night Angel Nemesis – Night Angel #4
29. Zoe G Galloway: The Royal Matchmaking Competition
30. Paul Cornell: Human Nature – A Dr Who New Adventures Novel.
31. Ben Aaronovitch: Amongst Our Weapons – Rivers of London #9
32. Pierce Brown: Red Rising – Red Rising #1
33. Ursula LeGuin: The Lathe of Heaven
34. Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman: Good Omens
35. Karen Traviss: Hard Contact – Star Wars Republic Commando #1
36. Trip Gailey: A Market of Dreams and Destiny
37. V.E.Schwab: Gallant
38. David Gullen: The Blackhart Blades
39. Molly Harper: How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf - Naked Werewolf #1
40. Jade Linwood: Charming
41. Kari Sperring: The Book of Gaheris – An Arthurian Tale
42. T. Kingfisher: Thornhedge
43. John Scalzi: Agent to the Stars
44. Hannah Nicole Maehrer: Assistant to the Villain
45. Genevieve Cogman: The Dark Archive – Invisible Library #7
46. Audrey Harrison: An Inconvenient Ward.
47. T. Kingfisher: Illuminations
48. Martha Wells: Compulsory – Murderbot Diaries 0.5
49. Martin Duffy: Peg Leg Gus
50. Juliet E McKenna: The Green Man’s Quarry – Green Man #6
51. Lois McMaster Bujold: The Warrior’s Apprentice – Vorkosiverse #3
52. Patrick Stewart: Making it So – A Memoir
53. Jodi Taylor: White Silence – Elizabeth cage #1 Audiobook
54. Jodi Taylor: Dark Light – Elizabeth Cage #2 Audiobook
55. Jodi Taylor: Long Shadows – Elizabeth Cage #3 Audiobook
56. C.S. Forester: Lieutenant Hornblower – Audiobook
57. C.S. Forester: Hornblower and the Hotspur - Audiobook
58. Jim Butcher: Grave Peril – Dresden Files #3 – Audiobook
59. Diana Wynne Jones: House of Many Ways – Howl’s Moving Castle #3
60. Martha Wells: Exit Strategy – Murderbot Diaries #4 – Audiobook
61. M.R James: The Tractate Middoth
62. John Gwynne: Better to Live than to Die
63. Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair – Thursday Next #1
64. Elizabeth Moon: Sheepfarmer’s Daughter – Paksenarrion #1
65. Lois McMaster Bujold: Mirror Dance – Vorkosiverse – Audiobook
66. George R.R. Martin: Fevre Dream
67. Ellis Peters: Monk’s Hood – Cadfael Chronicles #3 – Audiobook
68. Ellis Peters: The Virgin in the Ice – Cadfael Chronicles #6 – Audiobook
69. Ellis Peters: Dead Man’s Ransom – Cadfael – Audiobook
70. Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall – Audiobook
71. Jodi Taylor: Santa Grint – Time Police -- Audiobook
72. Jonathan Gash: The Judas Pair – Lovejoy #1 -- Audiobook
73. Marshall Ryan Maresca: The Quarrygate Gambit – Streets of Maradaine #4
74. Jodi Taylor: Christmas Pie – St Mary’s Short
75. Tom Holt: The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse
This is a paradigm shift to a parallel timeline. There's a St Mary's, complete with Peterson, Markham etc., but it's not Max's St Mary's and so there's an immediate disconnect. Max and Leon are back together, but this Leon is not her Leon and she is not Leon's Max. They truly were given a second chance in the previous book, but now they are back to the beginning of their relationship again, though they both bring their own baggage with them. Max has barely had the time to breathe and take stock of her new situation, familiar yet unfamiliar, when the Time Police show up and she and Leon are on the run up and down the timeline, looking for refuge, with the Time Police (and crocodiles) snapping at their heels. There's a particularly terrifying time in The Time Police offer a whole new element. Appearing out of nowhere (the future) they are trigger-happy thugs and need to be reined in. Apparently that's Max's job though she hasn't a clue how to go about it. This is a high stakes story and quite breathless at times, though the narrator, Zara Ramm, delivers it beautifully.
This is slightly weird to begin with because it seems as if Peter Grant is out of the police force and has taken a job as security for Terrence Skinner, a Silicon Valley tech genius who is obviously a fan of Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Universe (cue lots of references). Peter's girlfriend, Beverly, river goddess of Beverley Brook, is heavily pregnant, so he's about to become a family man. He has to fit in with a bunch of geeks – even geekier than he is. Tech and magic meet over Skinner's big secret hidden in the basement. I'm a big fan of the Rivers of London novels, but this isn't one of my favourites. The narration, by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, is excellent, but I confess I had a long hiatus about halfway through which probably didn't help my enjoyment.
