everyone keeps telling me to read the safekeep but no one will tell me what its about, i am soooo intrigued!
i actually came here to ask you if youve read Ilona Andrews Iron & Magic, which is a Kate Daniels spinoff? its Marriage of Convenience and it is stellar, i just remember scrolling by a post where you had your hat out for marriage of convenience recs, and Iron & Magic is it, look no further. i actually went into it blind with zero knowledge of the main Kate Daniels series and it worked great for me (i have since read Kate Daniels.) it really just nails the yearning where theyre married but not consummated yet
sorry to be a creep haha i followed you over from a link on Sarah at Fiction Matters, and i am really simpatico with your taste ans so impressed with the way you approach thinking about how you read ans who to follow and what to read. keep up the food work!
Thank you so much! I haven't read any Kate Daniels or Iron & Magic but really want to pick up more Ilona Andrews after I finish Hidden Legacy, especially a marriage of convenience novel!
I'm glad I wasn't the only one super stressed about Ember's lies 😆 I also kept thinking about how my mom has been in HR/recruiting for years and the first thing she does is check whether people are lying about their education!!
Some of them had me shrieking at the page! And I wonder if that was meant to be reflective of startup culture? (Like the silly interview questions she gets asked.)
I finished the 5th Cazalet (All Change) a few weeks back and hope you’re planning to read it, too. It continues the story in the mid-1950’s and while there were some satisfying endings, there were also a few unsettled storylines … I was glad to see there will be another installment coming in 2026(?). Zoe is still a favorite character, and Clary has a bigger part, now as an adult - the arcs of the characters who were children in the first books and now are in their 30’s are really well done. Howard gives us so much to think about in how the parents’ different choices reverberate in the subsequent generations.
I'm bringing the fifth one with me on my December trip! And yes, I've loved seeing these characters grow up and how thoughtfully Howard renders each of their arcs.
everyone keeps telling me to read the safekeep but no one will tell me what its about, i am soooo intrigued!
i actually came here to ask you if youve read Ilona Andrews Iron & Magic, which is a Kate Daniels spinoff? its Marriage of Convenience and it is stellar, i just remember scrolling by a post where you had your hat out for marriage of convenience recs, and Iron & Magic is it, look no further. i actually went into it blind with zero knowledge of the main Kate Daniels series and it worked great for me (i have since read Kate Daniels.) it really just nails the yearning where theyre married but not consummated yet
sorry to be a creep haha i followed you over from a link on Sarah at Fiction Matters, and i am really simpatico with your taste ans so impressed with the way you approach thinking about how you read ans who to follow and what to read. keep up the food work!
Thank you so much! I haven't read any Kate Daniels or Iron & Magic but really want to pick up more Ilona Andrews after I finish Hidden Legacy, especially a marriage of convenience novel!
I'm glad I wasn't the only one super stressed about Ember's lies 😆 I also kept thinking about how my mom has been in HR/recruiting for years and the first thing she does is check whether people are lying about their education!!
Some of them had me shrieking at the page! And I wonder if that was meant to be reflective of startup culture? (Like the silly interview questions she gets asked.)
I finished the 5th Cazalet (All Change) a few weeks back and hope you’re planning to read it, too. It continues the story in the mid-1950’s and while there were some satisfying endings, there were also a few unsettled storylines … I was glad to see there will be another installment coming in 2026(?). Zoe is still a favorite character, and Clary has a bigger part, now as an adult - the arcs of the characters who were children in the first books and now are in their 30’s are really well done. Howard gives us so much to think about in how the parents’ different choices reverberate in the subsequent generations.
I'm bringing the fifth one with me on my December trip! And yes, I've loved seeing these characters grow up and how thoughtfully Howard renders each of their arcs.
I still haven’t gotten to The Light Years! Maybe this will be my Christmas break read. I have FOMO every time I see someone talk about the series. 😂
Yes, it would be a perfect Christmas break read!