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@willaful I started KJ Charles's _An Unnatural Vice_, second in the Sins of the City trilogy (which I've had in the TBR for seven years, as I hoard her backlist for hard times). And then I immediately started the third and last in the trilogy, because of course once that door was opened, there was no shutting it close again.

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@willaful I finished _Murder in Belgravia_, by Lynn Brittney; very much a historical procedural, set in Edwardian London. Read it in one long gulp, and now I'm struggling to write the review. Positive: a lot of historical fact woven into the narrative in ways that make sense. Negative: setting up a love triangle for the series, and a slight tendency towards exposition..

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@willaful Struggling with _Death at a Scottish Wedding_, the second in a cozy series by Lucy Connelly/Candace Havens. The ARC needed a serious copy editing pass, and the setting (snowed in an old Scottish castle with some 50 strangers and murder) has been for the most part wasted.

Ah well.

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@willaful I have to be in a very specific headspace for them, for real.

And even then, it can be iffy whether I can finish them.

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@willaful Reading 'Nathan Burgoine's "Handmade Holidays" and crying my heart out in the best possible way.

(seriously)

ETA: it's low angst, it's just incredibly heartfelt and so real.

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I have vague memories of liking Maureen Johnson's work in category--but it's vague, likely pre-blog.

I just started reading another cozy mystery, _Death by Demo_ by Callie Carpenter, and i am really liking the writing voice; there's very good deep point of view from the heroine, without being first person.

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@willaful Reading a short cozy mystery, involving finding a precious antiquity in a small town on the Chesapeake Bay. Not terribly impressed so far, I'm sorry to say.

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@willaful I've stalled in reading my TBR Challenge book--Darynda Jones' _First Grave on the Right_. For once, it's not the first person (Charley Davidson is a sarcastic flippant smartypants, and so far I like her) but me.

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@willaful oh no

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@willaful Reading Vanessa Riley's first Lady Worthing mystery, _Murder in Westminster_; I'm compelled to keep reading, even though the narration sometimes feels a bit stream-of-consciousness (first person, part tense), in what feels like an established universe I've just been dropped into without warning.

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