Monthly Rereads January 2024

As always, opinions are my own

The Mane Event by Shelly Laurenston

Pride #1

Three stars

This book came out September 25th, 2007

Followed by The Beast in Him

Borrowed as audiobook from Audible

The Beast in Him by Shelly Laurenston

Pride #2

Three stars
This book came out April 1st, 2008

Follows The Mane Event
Followed by The Mane Attraction

Borrowed as audiobook from Audible

The Mane Attraction by Shelly Laurenston

Pride #3

Three stars
This book came out November 1st, 2008

Follows The Beast in Him
Followed by The Mane Squeeze

Borrowed as audiobook from Audible

The Mane Squeeze by Shelly Laurenston

Pride #4

Three stars
This book came out November 1st, 2009

Follows The Mane Attraction
Followed by Big Bad Beast

Borrowed as audiobook from Audible

Beast Behaving Badly by Shelly Laurenston

Pride #5

Three stars

This book came out May 1st, 2011
Follows The Mane Squeeze
Followed by Big Bad Beast

Borrowed as audiobook from Audible

Big Bad Beast by Shelly Laurenston

Pride #6

This book came out May 25th, 2010

Follows Beast Behaving Badly
Followed by Bear Meets Girl

Borrowed as audiobook from Audible

Bear Meets Girl by Shelly Laurenston

Pride #7

Four stars

This book came out March 27th, 2012

Follows Big Bad Beast
Followed by Wolf with Benefits

Borrowed as audiobook from Audible

Wolf with Benefits by Shelly Laurenston

Pride #8

This book came out March 25th, 2014

Follows Bear Meets Girl

Followed by Bite Me

Borrowed as audiobook from Audible

Bite Me by Shelly Laurenston

Pride #9

This book came out March 25th, 2014
This book follows the Mane Squeeze
Followed by Hot and Badgered

Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston
Honey Badger Chronicles #1
Three stars
Follows Bite Me
Followed by In a Badger Way
This book comes out March 27, 2018
Audiobook from Audible 

In a Badger Way by Shelly Laurenston
Honey Badger Chronicles #2
Three and a half stars
Follows Hot and Badgered
Followed by Badger to the Bone
This book came out March 26, 2019
Audiobook from Audible

Badger to the Bone by Shelly Laurenston
Honey Badger Chronicles #3
Follows In a Badger Way

Followed by Badger to the Bone
Audiobook from Audible

Badger to the Bone by Shelly Laurenston

Honey Badger Chronicles #4

Four stars

This book comes out August 31st, 2021

Follows Badger to the Bone

Followed by Born to Be Badger

Audiobook from Audible

Born to Be Badger

Honey Badger Chronicles #5

Four and a half stars

This book comes out November 8, 2023

Follows Breaking Badger

Audiobook from Audible

Pack Challenge by Shelly Laurenston

Magnus Pack #1

Followed by Go Fetch!

This book came out October 1st, 2006

Audiobook from Audible Plus

Opinions are my own

Go Fetch! by Shelly Laurenston

Magnus Pack #2

Follows Pack Challenge
Followed by Here Kitty, Kitty
This book came out March 6, 2007

Audiobook from Audible

Here Kitty, Kitty by Shelly Laurenston

Magnus Pack #3
Three stars
Follows Go Fetch! 
This book came out July 3rd, 2007
Audiobook from Audible 

Tale of Two Dragons by G. A. Aiken

Dragon Kin #0.2

Four stars

This novella came out November 5th, 2013

Follows Can't Get Enough
Followed by Dragon on Top

Audiobook from Audible Plus

Dragon Actually by G. A. Aiken

Dragon Kin #1

This book came out September 1st, 2008

Followed by About a Dragon

Audiobook from Audible Plus

About a Dragon by G. A. Aiken

Dragon Kin #2

This book came out December 1st, 2008
Follows Dragon Actually
Followed by What a Dragon Should Know
Audiobook from Audible Plus

What a Dragon Should Know by G. A. Aiken

Dragon Kin #3

This book came out September 1st, 2009
Follows About a Dragon
Followed by Last Dragon Standing
Audiobook from Audible Plus

Last Dragon Standing by G. A. Aiken

Dragon Kin #4

Three stars

This book came out September 7th, 2010
Follows What a Dragon Should Know
Followed by The Dragon Who Loved Me

Audiobook from Audible Plus

The Dragon who Loved Me by G. A. Aiken

Dragon Kin #5

Three and a half stars

This book came out September 1st, 2011
Follows Last Dragon Standing
Followed by How to Drive a Dragon Crazy

Audiobook from Audible Plus

How to Drive a Dragon Crazy by G. A. Aiken

Dragon Kin #6

Three and a half stars
This book came out September 4th, 2012
Follows Dragon Who Loved Me
Followed by Light My Fire

Audiobook from Audible Plus

Feel the Burn by G. A. Aiken

Dragon Kin #8

This book came out November 24th, 2015

Follows Light My Fire

Followed by Bring the Heat

Bring the Heat by G. A. Aiken

Dragon Kin #9

Three stars

This book came out August 27th, 2017

Follows Feel the Burn

Characters next found in The Princess Knight

The Blacksmith Queen by G.A. Aiken

Scarred Earth Saga #1

This book came out August 27th, 2019

Followed by The Princess Knight

Borrowed as audiobok from Audible Plus

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

Ernest Cunningham #1

Four and a half stars

This book came out March 29, 2022

Followed by Everyone on this Train is a Suspect

Audiobook borrowed from Libby

A Murderous Relation by Deanna Raybourn

Veronica Speedwell #5

Three stars

This book came out March 10th, 2020

Follows A Dangerous Collaboration

Followed by An Unexpected Peril

Borrowed as audiobook from Libby

Veronica Speedwell #6

Four stars

Follows A Murderous Relation

Followed by An Impossible Impostor
This book came out March 2, 2021

Borrowed as audiobook from Libby

The Vanishing by Jayne Ann Krentz
Fogg Lake#1
Three and a half stars (bumped up a half star on reread)
Followed by All the Colors of the Night
This book came out January 7th, 2020
Audiobook from Libby

All the Colors of Night by Jayne Ann Krentz

Fogg Lake #2

This book came out January 7th, 2021

Follows The Vanishing

Followed by Lightning in a Mirror
Audiobook from Libby

Lightning in a Mirror by Jayne Ann Krentz 

Fogg Lake #3

Three and a half stars

This book came out January 18th, 2022

Follows All the Colors of Night

Audiobook from Libby

When All the Girls Have Gone by Jayne Ann Krentz

Cutler, Sutter, and Salinas #1

Wildest Hearts by Jayne Ann Krentz

When Daniel Lyncroft, the head of Lyncroft Unlimited, disappeared in a plane crash some time ago. His creditors are getting restless but his sister Annie doesn't want to sell his company; she knows that he is alive. So she's pulling her nuclear option, contacting his former employer, Oliver Rain. Everyone knows that he not pulled his own family's company from the brink of disaster several years ago, he multiplied their fortunes by quite a bit. He's invested in Daniel's company so it's in his best interests to make sure that the company doesn't fail. So Annie proposes a marriage of convenience.

It is possible that some of my enjoyment of this book is nostalgia but I still like that both Annie and Oliver are able to grow in this story. Oliver becomes a little less rigid while Annie becomes a bit less naive.

Four stars

This book came out in 1993

Borrowed as audiobook from Audible Prime

Opinions are my own

Solstice Spirits by Erin Johnson

Rudie Hollybrook is the only person in Holiday Haven who sees dead people. It's been a point of contention between herself and her best frenemy Hayley Swift. Except now, Hayley is also seeing ghosts. Well, ghost. It's just one ghost. But it's still scaring the bejeebers out of her. So she calls Rudie, at ridiculous hours of the morning (seriously, the lady has no manners.)
But her life view may be about to change. It may not be three separate ghosts but this particular ghost is trying to tell her something.
Not a ton of depth but a good story.

Three stars
This book came out July 1, 2021

Follows Holiday Hijinks

Followed by Merry Mischief 

Rudie last appeared in Cocoa Curses

Borrowed as ebook from Kindle Unlimited

Opinions are my own

Goodbye's a Witch by Danielle Garrett

Though there is a bit of a mystery in this story, it is more about wrapping up the series, and if you go in expecting that, you'll be fine. There is a new character who is introduced but we don't see much of her. She comes through the portal that is on the manor property. But there is a problem. There are vampire's chasing her and Holly's magic is on the fritz. 

It was a little flat and a little predictable but still a nice end to the series. 

Beechwood Harbor Magic Mystery #12

Three stars

This book came out June 15, 2021

Follows Men Love Witches

Audiobook of mine in Audible

Opinions are my own

Death and the Victorians by Adrian Mackinder

If you've studied the Victorians at all, you will probably know a lot of these stories. It is, not surprisingly, very Euro-centric. Very focused on England with all of the, what we would call nowadays, weirdness: seances, memento moris, and the scare of Jack the Ripper.

I was disappointed that there were topics that weren't more deeply delved into (not Jack the Ripper, as Mackinder says, that has been well-covered.) This book is shorter than many nonfiction books and could have stood with more pages. I did appreciate that one chapter was mainly dedicated to books of the time that focused on death. 

Three and a half stars

This book comes out January 30, 2024

ARC kindly provided b Pen & Sword and NetGalley

Opinions are my own

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson

I read the first book by Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, and enjoyed it. There was some verbal trickery that I didn't quite agree with but still, a fun book. Having read that book made this one more enjoyable and so did expecting that the author would toy with the readers expectations.

Ernest Cunningham returns as the first person narrator. He's been asked to come along as the debut writer on the Australian Mystery Writer's Society's fiftieth anniversary of their Festival. Along with five other writers, he will be doing a series of panels for a select group. 

Also on the train is his girlfriend, Juliette, and his literary agent, Simone Morrison, as well as any number of other characters. Ernest is not excited to see Simone as he is late on delivering his next book, the one he has already gotten an advance for. It's just too bad because he just doesn't have a brain for fiction. So it's with mixed emotions that Ernest realizes that a death along their journey may not be entirely natural. He decides that he is going to investigate, all while writing his next book (the one we are reading) while adhering to the rules he lists at the beginning of the book. 

As in the first book, Ernest drops clues as to who the murderer will end up being. Also like the first book, many of those clues were deft red herrings. It made it a little hard to read and some of the story felt a little thin but it was overall a very nice read and I'm hoping that the epilogue is a hint to how the next book in the series will be rolled out. 

Four stars

This book comes out January 30, 2024
Follows Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone

ARC kindly provided by Mariner Books and NetGalley

Opinions are my own

Men Love Witches by Danielle Garrett

Now that their home is finally open as a B&B, Holly and Adam are playing host to a vampire council, one specifically arranged by their old housemate, Lacey Vaughn. But the super-secret meeting isn't going so well. First, the powers that have gathered can't agree how they should work together. Then Harmony (who was already a little jittery around vampires) sees someone skulking in the shadows and she's pretty sure it's an old foe. Then, a valuable item goes missing. All of this craziness and she's planning a wedding and meeting Adam's parents again. Well, most of the planning is going well bt she just can't seem to find a a dress and the wedding is only six weeks away.
A fun little story that I think regular readers of the series will enjoy.

Beechwood Harbor Magic Mystery #11

Three stars
This book came out October 29, 2020

Follows The Witch is Inn

Followed by Goodbye's a Witch

Audiobook of mine in Audible

Opinions are my own