This is the last of my beloved Phryne Fisher books, and it was hard to pick up and hard to finish because I knew it was the end. Was it a wonderful book? Of course it was! Am I happy the series is over? No, of course not even though I 100% agree a series can't go on forever!! I don't think I would have picked it up if I hadn't felt like I was in a bit of a reading slump. It's the end of the year and I've picked up about 7 books that seemed like they would be amazing and completely failed to grab me. Oh, to be feeling uninspired by my books! Terrible! So I relied on that indomitable Phryne Fisher to get me out but with a bit of a heavy heart!
112. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
My friend was talking about this book, and it reminded me of the Anne Hathaway film Colossal. The resembles is really only applicable to the first couple of pages, but that was enough to get me interested! I quite enjoyed this YA science fiction book.
113. Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
I love learning the myths and folklore of other countries, especially Asia, so I had to read this book. A year or two ago I had a Japanese student who was telling me about kitsune- or nine-tailed foxes, and this story is about gumiho, which is the Korean nine-tailed foxes. Clearly I needed to read this one! It's a cute YA romance starring a gumiho.
This was the conclusion of the trilogy and it was delightful!! Very satisfying!!!
115. Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
Oh, how I loved this novella!! So good!! So satisfying!! I feel like it was so beautifully rendered and I'm even more pleased that there will be a second one!! I don't want to say too much because I thought one thing when I started and learned I was wrong...
116. In the Shadow of Spindrift House by Mira Grant
Seanan McGuire! Oh, how I love you!! So this isn't a Scooby Doo story, but it's much more like what I wanted from Meddling Kids than what I got from that. You can guess from the title and cover that the house is really significant and possibly some water.... After that, I couldn't say (well, I could but where would the fun in that be!!). You gotta read this little novella for yourself!!
I read 116 books and 83 were by woman, 29 by men, 1 book by a female and male author, and 3 anthologies with both female and male authors- two of which were mostly female authors. My year of reading lots of women was strong!!!
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