I picked up Tilly Wallace’s books on a whim in 2024, hoping for something fun to read. I devoured everything she has published. Literally everything!!! Manners and Monsters was where I started and I highly, highly recommend reading these serieses. A lady never reveals the true extent of her decay… Hannah Miles lives a quiet existence helping her parents conduct research into a most terrible affliction—until a gruesome murder during her best friend’s engagement party pulls her from the shadows. With her specialist knowledge and demur disposition, Hannah is requested to aid the investigation. Except Hannah discovers her role is to apologise in the wake of the rude and disgraced man…
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Top Reads of 2024: Letters to Half Moon Street by Sarah Wallace
This book was recommended to me by two of my author friends – Skye Kilaen and Felicia Davin. They did not steer me wrong, as usual! I must have been drunker than I realized because all I remember is how well he tied his cravat and how perfectly his coat fit him… London, 1815: where magic can be purchased at convenience, and the fashionable and wealthy descend for the start of the social Season. But 25-year-old Gavin Hartford finds the city intimidating when he arrives, alone, to his family’s townhouse. The only company he seeks is in his beloved books and weekly letters to his sister, Gerry. Then dashing man-about-town…
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Top Reads of 2024: Drop Dead by Lily Chu
I discovered Lily Chu a few years ago and I highly recommend all of her books in both ebook and audio. They all start out as Audible Originals, so exclusive to Audible for some period of time before being released in ebook and paperback and they are all excellent. It looks like she has a few books coming out that aren’t starting this way, but I still can’t wait to read them. One mysterious mansion. Two rival journalists. Three weeks to uncover the story—and love—of a lifetime. Don’t miss this unforgettable romantic comedy performed by Phillipa Soo and John Cho! Obituary writer Nadine Barbault doesn’t mind being called “Lady Death”.…
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Top Reads of 2024: A Rival Most Vial by R.K. Ashwick
I grabbed A Rival Most Vial by R.K. Ashwick on a whim on Kobo Plus. It was available as an audiobook, it was queer, and it looked fun! Sometimes that doesn’t work out for me. This time, it really really did. Two potion shops, one heated rivalry…until hate bubbles over into something else. Any adventurer worth their sword knows about Ambrose Beake. The proud, quiet half-elf sells the best—and only—potions in the city. Until a handsome new shopkeeper named Eli opens another potion shop across the street, throwing Ambrose’s peace and ledgers far off balance. Within weeks, they’re locked in a war of price tags and products—Ambrose’s expertise against Eli’s…
