Taran Wander by Lloyd Alexander (Chronicles of Prydain #4).Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids by Mona Delahooke.The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Prydain #5).On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder.

Non-Toxic Masculinity: Recovering Healthy Male Sexuality by Zachary Wagner.

God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen by Rhys Bowen (Her Royal Spyness #15) Purchase Links: Paperback, Kindle Edition, AudiobookĮnter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. But they are still fluff, and it has been a while since I thought the series was worth recommending. I like the characters, even with their weaknesses. But it is hard to recommend the books without plenty of caveats about them not really being all that good. I enjoyed the book as I read it, even if it was a bit frustrating. The “naive girl that happens to solve a murder” schtick is getting a bit old. And while Darcy is a good loving husband, he still isn’t including her in his work even though she is just as skilled at being a detective as he is. Georgie, after having solved over a dozen murders and protected various members of the royal family many times, still is unsure of herself. The $1.99 I paid was worth it, but I wouldn’t have paid much more because the series has stalled. I am reading this one more than a year after it was released because I didn’t want to pay full price for a book I will not reread and do not care about that much. But I can’t imagine rereading the whole series or reading more than two or three in a year because they don’t hold my interest well. The books are not long, and they read quickly. A bit of fluff is enjoyable now and then. I have continued to read the Royal Spyness series (which I originally started about the same time I started reading the Inspector Gamache series) because it is light cotton candy.

But the other part is that the Inspector Gamache books have a depth to them that allows for rereading and the quality across the series is high enough that I want to reread them all. I enjoyed reading the series back to back instead of once a year because I saw subtle connections between the books I missed when I read them a year apart. This past fall, I reread the Inspector Gamache book to prepare for the 18th book in the series. Summary: Georgie and Darcy are “invited” to spend Christmas with the royal family.

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