Review of One Perfect Couple, by Ruth Ware, read by Imogen Church

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One Perfect Couple

by Ruth Ware
read by Imogen Church

Simon & Schuster Audio, 2024. 14 hours, 25 minutes.
Review written January 31, 2025, from a library eaudiobook.
Starred Review

Okay! With this book I’ve read all of Ruth Ware’s existing work – and this one felt like something new and had me hanging on every word.

Yes, this one is a thriller like all the others, and it’s going to end with the female main character in great danger. There’s always some question about who she can trust and where the danger lies, though in this case, that came to be obvious before the dangerous confrontation – it was more a question of would she survive the confrontation. (Though I will put it in “Mystery” along with the others.)

The book sets up with Lila, a research virologist, fretting over data that doesn’t give the results she wanted. And then her actor boyfriend Nico gets a big opportunity and wants her to come with him on a new reality TV show called “One Perfect Couple.” Five couples are going to be taken to a tropical island and given tasks to achieve. People will get eliminated after each task, and the producers will be encouraging some remixing of the couples.

Lila isn’t thrilled about the whole thing. But Nico is very much hoping it will be his big break as an actor. Their plan is that Lila will get knocked out early, and if Nico’s encouraged to spend time with other women, he assures her it will purely reflect his acting abilities – only for the camera.

But during all this set-up, the book begins each chapter with a radio distress call of someone from the island in the future, not too far ahead. They’re stranded, their water is running out, and people are dead and injured – so we’re fully warned that things are going to go terribly wrong.

And they do go terribly wrong. The island hosts a resort in construction and not yet open to the public. Their first night – after one person is eliminated – an enormous storm takes out power and the desalination plant. The boat where the staff of the show were staying had left to take the eliminated contestant back to the mainland – and it doesn’t return.

The storm kills a couple people, and then the group has to figure out how to survive until a boat comes – but that turns out to be much longer than they hope. So they need to ration food and medicine – and let’s just say there are power struggles and more people start dying.

And my goodness it had me avidly listening! Perhaps it’s not the most pleasant story to spend my time with, but I did like the characters and there were even some interesting insights into toxic relationships. But mostly, it was a thrilling story that got me wondering what I would do in that situation – and tremendously glad I’ll never get in that situation.

[It’s probably just me, but does anyone else wonder why someone on a tropical island wouldn’t try to make their own small desalination scheme by trying to evaporate sea water and catch the condensation? I understand you probably wouldn’t get a lot, but every little bit would help, and it seems easier than scaling coconut trees. Why didn’t they even try? That was my only niggling question – but I also had it when reading a different book about drought in California, so it was a persistent thought.]

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Review of Buried Deep, by Naomi Novik

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Buried Deep

And Other Stories

by Naomi Novik

Del Rey, 2024. 428 pages.
Review written February 3, 2025, from a library book.
Starred Review

I don’t read a lot of short story collections, because I have a hard time getting through them. It’s so easy to stop after finishing a story. But once I started this one, I knew I wanted to read every single story.

There are thirteen stories, of various lengths, with at least one from the worlds of Temeraire, the Scholomance, and Spinning Silver – that story was actually the original version of the book – but a different negotiation on the part of the miller’s daughter keeps it to story length.

My favorite was definitely the one in the world of Temeraire that retells Pride and Prejudice with Elizabeth Bennet the captain of a Longwing dragon. But this is not a proper occupation for a gentleman’s daughter. I love the way Naomi Novik works key scenes from Pride and Prejudice into that situation. And I love how Captain Bennet has learned to wield authority!

The title story is about the Minotaur and his sister Ariadne. The final story is in the world of an upcoming novel, currently titled Folly. I can’t wait!

Another favorite took place in the Scholomance after the events of the trilogy, so supposedly students are safer there – as long as their roommate doesn’t try to kill them.

Many of the stories are simply from some other fantasy world out of the mind of Naomi Novik – and she’s good at intriguing world-building. I loved the one about the woman who was a talented sculptor and who gets the commission to work with the magical clay – that tends to kill the sculptors who are permitted to work with it. (And there’s way more to it than that, which she skillfully communicates while telling you a fascinating story.)

This might be a good introduction to Naomi Novik’s magical writing, but it’s also a great way to keep her devoted fans patient while waiting for the next novel. Whichever you fall under, if you like fantasy at all, read this book!

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Review of The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Volume 8, by Beth Brower

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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion

Volume 8

by Beth Brower

Rhysdon Press, 2024. 339 pages.
Review written January 22, 2025, from my own copy, purchased via Amazon.com
Starred Review

Hooray! The next volume of Emma Lion’s journals is out! This is the first volume I had to wait for – having received the first three volumes as a birthday present from my sister after seven volumes had already been published. I did manage to resist reading it until I finished reading for the CYBILS and Mathical Awards, but it was the first book I picked up after that.

And it’s all one story – so go back and read Volume One. And if you have already read Volume One, you will already know if you want to read on, so I won’t say a whole lot about this volume.

This book telling the story of Emma M. Lion, a twenty-one-year-old woman, from May to June 1884. She lives in London, owning her own home after the death of her parents. But she needs to find a way to make more money, and her wealthy aunt is requiring that she be a foil for her beautiful cousin Arabella, as Arabella navigates The Season and finds a man to marry.

This volume is taken up with Emma’s adventures trying to appease her aunt – but more so with the happy month of June, when she gets to spend time in the countryside with the three men she has developed a deep friendship with.

And it’s a truly lovely group friendship! That’s one of the things I love about this book – a lovely and deep friendship with three single men, with each one being unique. In this volume, we learn some deeper secrets about two of them. And I honestly think some seeds are being planted that she may not end up marrying the one that we and now she expect her to end up with. But the friendships between the four of them are rich and each interaction unique, and it’s just a lovely thing to read.

And I’m being vague purposely because, as aforesaid, you need to start at the beginning. And then just watch if you’re not eagerly waiting for the next volume, too.

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Review of The Turn of the Key, by Ruth Ware, read by Imogen Church

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The Turn of the Key

by Ruth Ware
read by Imogen Church

Review written December 30, 2024, from a library eaudiobook.
Simon & Schuster Audio, 2019. 12 hours, 13 minutes.

The Turn of the Key is Ruth Ware at her most frightening. Never mind what I said in my last review of one of her books – even though this is the fourth one of her books I’ve read in the last half of 2024, I had no idea what was going to happen in this one. Well, except what the person telling the story told us – she was in prison for murder for the death of a child. The book is her writing to a lawyer the other ladies in prison have said is good for no-chance cases.

Before I talk about the book, let me say that this book is extremely well-written and had me on the edge of my seat all the way. The plot wasn’t predictable, and so many small things combined to keep the tension high. So why am I not giving it a star? Well, a child dies. And even watching all the pieces come together to explain mysterious events isn’t enough to make me feel good about the story. I was left with a sinking feeling at the end of the book, so I feel like my review has to include a fair warning. Not only does someone die whom you’ve come to care about, it’s a child.

And the author absolutely tells you that right from the start. So if I wasn’t able to handle that, I probably shouldn’t have read the book. And I did thoroughly enjoy reading the book and couldn’t stop thinking about it – but it didn’t give me the usual happy feeling at the end when a mystery is solved.

Anyway, that said, the story is told by Rowan Caine. She discovered an opportunity to be a nanny for two architects and their four children in a remote part of Scotland. Rowan is up front that she told some lies to get the position, and her reasons are some of the mysteries in the book. But it has an enormous salary, and the family seems nice, and the teenage daughter is off to boarding school when Rowan is first due to arrive.

The initial interview – a day with the family – went great, but when Rowan shows up for duty, she’s told the parents are heading to a conference the very next day. The previous nannies have left because they thought the house was haunted, but Rowan firmly believes that’s a load of bunk. All the same, when she starts hearing pacing in the night above her room – where there shouldn’t even be a room – and when the “smart” house malfunctions in the night, and when the children get her told off after they lead her into the poison garden on the grounds – well, she doesn’t know what’s going on or where to turn. The lady who comes in to clean doesn’t seem to like her, and the handyman/driver is helpful, but she doesn’t want him to think she’s a neurotic female who needs to be rescued.

The situation builds, with one thing after another. Just when Rowan thinks she’s getting a break, something more happens. And it all ends with the death of a child. And when Rowan tried to explain to the police what had been going on, she only makes them more suspicious.

It’s another thriller with expertly done, twisty suspense. Pick it up with a fair warning.

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Review of A Christmas Visitor, by Anne Perry, read by Terrence Hardiman

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A Christmas Visitor

by Anne Perry
read by Terrence Hardiman

Blackstone Audio, 2006. 3 hours, 59 minutes.
Review written December 24, 2024, from a library eaudiobook.

Okay, here’s one last cozy Christmas mystery for this year. This is the second one written by Anne Perry. The sleuth in this book is the gentleman Henry Rathbone, a friend of William and Hester Monk from her Victorian mystery series. He’s the same main character as in A Christmas Odyssey, a book I decided not to review because it’s not really a cozy mystery, searching the “dark underbelly” of London for a friend’s long lost son, and contains some casual transphobia against the characters found there.

But this book has plenty of coziness and snow-covered landscapes to get you in a Christmas mood. Henry Rathbone is the title visitor, visiting a family of friends at their estate in the Lake District of England. But unfortunately, a few weeks before, Judah, the owner of the estate, was found dead after apparently trying to cross icy stepping stones late at night after his son’s recital. Judah was a judge, and meanwhile, a man recently freed after years in prison, is accusing Judah of wrongfully imprisoning him in order to buy his estate.

As the family gathers from far-flung corners of the earth, it’s left to Henry to break the news to Judah’s siblings, rather than leave it to his widow. It seems strange that Judah would have gone for that walk late at night, and no one believes the accusation for a moment, so there’s plenty to investigate, and we get time with the interesting family members at the same time.

I have clearly listened to too many Anne Perry Christmas mysteries this year – I’m starting to be annoyed by how they can be weak on actual proof of the crime, and that it’s just about figuring it out, which is often guesswork. But still, taking me to Victorian England in the snow at Christmas time is a nice way to honor the holiday.

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Review of A Christmas Escape, by Anne Perry

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A Christmas Escape

by Anne Perry
read by Steven Crossley

Recorded Books, 2015. 3 hours, 41 minutes.
Review written December 20, 2024, from a library eaudiobook.

Yes, I’m listening to one Anne Perry Christmas novella after another in the lead up to Christmas, after I finished all the eaudiobooks my library has available that are eligible for the Cybils in the Young Adult Speculative Fiction category. Overdrive informs me that this is the thirteenth one she wrote.

I enjoyed this one for having quite a different flavor from the others – instead of being set in a remote English village, it’s set on an island in Italy, next to an active volcano. Our main character Charles Latterly isn’t obviously from any other of Anne Perry’s books. He’s a lonely gentleman going on vacation over Christmas to warmer shores. The host makes him welcome in the small hotel, with wonderful food, and assures them that it has stood safely there at the foot of the volcano for generations.

Charles goes out walking on the hillside the next day and encounters a charming fourteen-year-old girl and her elderly guardian. But when they get back to the hotel, there’s disharmony among the guests when the visiting author claims that someone tried to push him off the mountain.

And then things get much more frightening the next day when the volcano begins to erupt. To be completely safe, they need to get down to the beach, but that means walking a long way – and sure enough, before they set out they discover a murder.

I enjoyed listening to this one a bit more than the others, because the danger of the eruption had me riveted. The mystery itself felt contrived, and the motive unlikely, and it wasn’t solved by deduction so much as guesswork. But that didn’t stop me from enjoying the story. And I liked the friendly, almost fatherly relationship that developed between Charles Latterly and the teenage girl in the time of danger.

And, yes, everything resolves and most of the characters reach safety on Christmas Day.

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Review of A Christmas Beginning, by Anne Perry

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A Christmas Beginning

by Anne Perry
read by Terrence Hardiman

Blackstone Audio, 2007. 4 hours, 7 minutes.
Review written December 19, 2024, from a library eaudiobook.

Another cozy murder mystery for Christmas! I’ve discovered I can make up for always needing to read for the Cybils Awards in December by listening to audiobooks of some of the titles I’ve missed. Overdrive informs me that this is Number Five. I think I might have read it many years ago, but now the completist in me wants to write a review. The order definitely doesn’t matter, because most of the characters come from various others of Anne Perry’s books.

A Christmas Beginning features Superintendent Runcorn of the London police, a former boss of Monk – the main detective in one of Anne Perry’s other series. (I hope to listen to some of those other series soon.) It appears that Runcorn and Monk don’t like each other much.

In this book, Runcorn has come to the small island of Anglesey on vacation at Christmastime. To his surprise, he runs across a disagreeable man he knew in conjunction with a London case. But this is notable because during the course of that case he fell in love with the man’s beautiful sister, Melisande. He goes to church in hopes of encountering her as well. He does, but learns that her brother has gotten her engaged to a local constable who is also a gentleman. Runcorn is very aware throughout the book of his socially inferior status, which was all the more important in the late 1800s when this is set.

Later in the churchyard, Runcorn discovers the body of a beautiful young lady whom he also saw in church, the sister of the vicar. She was a friend of Melisande, who begs him to help solve the case. It turns out that the young lady had been courted by three different men, including Melisande’s brother and her current fiance. The woman seems to have been killed by someone who knew her, because she was facing the assailant and didn’t run away. So if Runcorn can figure out why those courtships ended, maybe he can learn about the case. And even though solving the case will make the local constable look good, he cares so much about Melisande’s peace of mind, he can’t bring himself to turn away.

And that’s the crux of this novella – solving the crime is dependent on learning about the relationships of the deceased. And you’ve got a little romance thrown in as well. It’s more of a story than a puzzle, but it’s a nice cozy Christmasy one – you can read about the characters out and about in the cold while you’re cozying up to this book by a fire.

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Review of A Christmas Secret, by Anne Perry

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A Christmas Secret

by Anne Perry
read by Terrence Hardiman

Blackstone Audio, 2006. 4 hours, 2 minutes.
Review written December 17, 2024, from a library eaudiobook

Years ago – It looks like it was in 2005 with A Christmas Guest, I discovered the fun of reading a cozy murder mystery for Christmas. It turns out there are now 21 in Anne Perry’s Christmas series of novellas, and this is the tenth one I’ve reviewed. I did some researching in Overdrive about the order and learned that this one is Number Four.

But – it’s not like the order matters within the Christmas series. Most of the novellas use characters from her other mysteries and give us a glimpse of how their lives turned out after the adventure that featured them, or in which they played a minor role. Sadly, usually this involves more murder! But they’re cozy murder mysteries – so there’s always a crime solved and lives taking a turn in a positive direction. And I truly enjoy the time with these characters – every time.

Every time I read one of these books, I resolve that I should read more of Anne Perry’s full-length mysteries. And you know what? With the help of Overdrive labeling the number of each book in each series, I just put two of her series openers on hold as audiobooks. So stay tuned, I may finally keep that resolution.

And that’s how I finally read A Christmas Secret. The last several years, I’ve fallen off reading the Christmas mysteries because I’m reading for the Cybils Awards or some other book award in December. But this year, I ran out of Cybils-nominated books in my category that the library has as eaudiobooks – so it dawned on me that I can catch up on some of the Anne Perry Christmas mysteries that I missed. A Christmas Secret is the first hold that came in, but you’ll be hearing about a few more.

I do feel like I need to let you know the characters, so if you have read Anne Perry’s other novels, you might recognize them. This one features Dominic and Clarice Corde, and it sounds like they met and fell in love when involved in a murder investigation. (This is a common situation in these books!) Dominic works as a curate in London, with an overbearing supervisor. So both of them are happy that he has gotten a chance to fill in as vicar in a small village while the regular vicar is on vacation. This is all happening in late nineteenth-century England, and all the expectations of a village vicar are resting on Dominic. He very much wants to prove himself and show that he’s worthy to be a vicar on his own.

But then Clarice discovers that the regular vicar didn’t go on vacation after all – when she finds his body in the cellar. So the rest of the book involves investigating why someone would have killed a man who seems to have been universally loved. But the vicar necessarily knows secrets, and yes, there are many secrets in the village.

The mystery part of this book seems more like stumbling on the answer rather than real detective work that the reader can follow along with – but it’s still a fun and cozy story, with a dash of danger at the end.

I also truly enjoyed the talk about Dominic’s Christmas sermon. He did want to prove himself, so it fits seamlessly into the story that we’re reminded that Christmas brings Hope to the world. This is a message I was happy to hear.

Like I always say, there’s nothing like a cozy murder mystery for Christmas!

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Review of Same Time Next Summer, by Annabel Monaghan

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Same Time Next Summer

by Annabel Monaghan
read by Brittany Pressley and Dan Bittner

Books on Tape, 2023. 6 hours, 57 minutes.
Review written September 3, 2024, from a library eaudiobook

When you’re listening to a romance novel, you shouldn’t complain if you know right away what’s going to happen, right? Especially since it was the author’s other book that made you notice the formula.

This book begins with Samantha going back to the beach where her family has spent summers for decades, along with Jack, her doctor fiance. Sam has resisted spending more than a few days there ever since she was seventeen, when Wyatt, her childhood friend and teen boyfriend (whose summer place was next door) left her and broke her heart. But now she’s over all that, engaged to be married, and her parents want her to consider getting married at the beach. Much to her surprise, Sam learns that Wyatt is back in the house next door, for the first time in years.

Okay, do you, like me, know what’s going to happen from that description? I did indulge in some fond hopes that this would be about Sam realizing what a great choice she made dating Jack, but I knew that wouldn’t happen as soon as they started in on a flashback from Wyatt’s perspective.

Like I said, the author’s earlier book, Nora Goes Off Script about a romance channel writer, made me extra aware of the formula, but I did groan a little when Sam (whose straitlaced job was in jeopardy) decided she wanted to be an art teacher for kids.

And there was one little detail that annoyed me. A high school student is not going to get a job at a library “teaching” kids, nor probably doing story times. Shelving books, maybe. Just saying.

But beyond all that? Yes, it’s a fun story. The characters are people you enjoy spending time with. Wyatt has some nice depth to him. And I have to say I did end up being surprised by what it was that broke up Sam and Wyatt when she was seventeen. It was not a letter one of them sent that never got received!

Though some day, I do want to read a romance novel about a heroine realizing she’s found someone much better for her than her first love. This isn’t that, but it’s a sweet romance that leaves you happy for the characters. It’s a feel-good story about finding the person who really gets you – and who can find fault with that?

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Review of The Spellshop, by Sarah Beth Durst

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The Spellshop

by Sarah Beth Durst
read by Caitlin Davies

Macmillan Audio, 2024. 12 hours, 12 minutes.
Review written September 27, 2024, from a library eaudiobook.
Starred Review

The Spellshop is a novel for adults that reads like a sweet middle grade story (and I mean that in all the best ways). Yes, our main character is an adult, who’s been working for many years at the Great Library of Alyssium, but years of staying away from other people, happy with her books and with the sentient plant who serves as her assistant, has left Kiela good-hearted and somewhat naive.

As the book opens, the great capital city has been through a revolution – and a mob has started burning the library. Fortunately, Kiela had prepared by packing up some of the most important spell books in crates on a library boat, so she is able to escape with the books and with her plant assistant Kaz. She heads to one of the outer islands, to the cottage where she was born, but which her parents left when she was a child.

In the Empire, it was illegal for someone not a sorcerer to cast spells, but Kiela’s not entirely sure who’s in charge now, and there’s a need for magic on the island, as the imperial sorcerers have been neglecting it for years. And she has those spell books….

It begins as she tries to figure out how to make a living and casts a spell that makes raspberry bushes grow. She has her family recipe book for jam, and she decides to open a jam shop – and sell some “remedies” on the side. Maybe she can help the islanders with the plants that are failing and the springs that have dried up. Maybe she can help her handsome and helpful neighbor Loren with his mer-horses.

It all seems to be going well until a terrible magical storm hits the island and Loren rescues a woman whose ship is destroyed in the storm. She says she’s an imperial inspector. How will Kiela hide her magic?

This is a feel-good magic story. Yes, there’s romance, but the only physical affection is kissing. Yes, there’s real danger, but everyone is revealed to have a good heart. (Well, except one guy, and he’s dealt with in a gentle way.) It’s a story about Kiela finding a place and a home and making friends and helping those friends, and I just know they’re all going to live happily ever after, and I so enjoyed spending time with them.

This is a perfect dose of charm if you have had enough of sex, darkness, and death with your fantasy. Don’t get me wrong – I enjoy that, too! But this was a sweet change and a well-written story that leaves you feeling happy.

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