Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah

 

Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms is a supernatural thriller about an eerie town where the sunflowers whisper secrets and the land hungers for blood.

The town of Bishop is known for exactly two things: recurring windstorms and an endless field of sunflowers that stretches farther than the eye can see. And women—missing women. So when three more women disappear one stormy night, no one in Bishop is surprised. The case is closed and their daughters are left in their dusty shared house with the shattered pieces of their lives. Until the wind kicks up a terrible secret at their mothers’ much-delayed memorial.

With secrets come the lies each of the girls is forced to confront. After caring for the other girls, Delilah would like to move on with her boyfriend, Bennett, but she can’t bear his touch. Whitney has already lost both her mother and her girlfriend, Eleanor, and now her only solace is an old weathervane that seems to whisper to her. Jude, Whitney's twin sister, would rather ignore it all, but the wind kicks up her secret too: the summer fling she had with Delilah's boyfriend. And more than anything, Bo wants answers and she wants them now. Something happened to their mothers and the townsfolk know what it was. She’s sure of it.

Bishop has always been a strange town. But what the girls don’t know is that Bishop was founded on blood—and now it craves theirs.

MY REVIEW: 3 Stars 

The beautiful cover is what lured me to this book and of course it sounded good. 

The prologue was really interesting and disturbing, but the story jumped ahead. I thought it was okay. I liked most of the characters. I just wish there was a bit more to the story. 

Overall, I would recommend it. 

*Thank you to Netgalley and Wednesday Books for a digital copy of the book. 

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Witch King by Martha Wells

 

"I didn't know you were a... demon."
"You idiot. I'm the demon."
Kai's having a long day in Martha Wells' WITCH KING....

After being murdered, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate water trap, Kai wakes to find a lesser mage attempting to harness Kai’s magic to his own advantage. That was never going to go well.

But why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has changed in the world since his assassination? And why does the Rising World Coalition appear to be growing in influence?

Kai will need to pull his allies close and draw on all his pain magic if he is to answer even the least of these questions.

He’s not going to like the answers.

MY REVIEW: 2 Stars 

I love Murderbot so much and I thought I would love this just as much, but unfortunately I did not. 

I did enjoy the beginning, but it just got confusing and boring to me. I will stick with Murderbot for sure.  

DNF

*Thank you to Netgalley and Tor for a digital copy of this book!