Stitches and Witches

I finished Stitches and Witches by Nancy Warren last evening. This was book two in the Vampire Knitting Club series. It was another quick and cozy installment, perfect for spooky season. Lucy and the crew work to solve a murder mystery. It was good. It has a serial feel to it just like the first one and it was fast paced. I noticed that the author repeated key information and events from the first book. I personally found this a bit annoying since I had just finished the first book, however I could see this would be handy if there had been a good amount of time between reads. I do plan to read more of these serials eventually. But I'm going back to heavier reads and I'll come back to these when I need a palate cleanser.

I started A Soul to Keep by Opal Reyne last evening. This one is about a young lady who is given to a Duskwalker, a type of demon essentially as a sacrifice to keep the village safe for another decade. The Duskwalker, Orpheus, is looking for a companion but Demons and Duskwalkers eat humans, they are attracted to the smell of fear. Reia is angry and not fearful so Orpheus finds her rather intriguing instead of salivating. I'm about 100 pages into this one and its been interesting so far. The world building is unique and I like Reia's nonchalant attitude. This is the first book in a series of eight.

I learned recently that another author I follow will be releasing book two in her series next month. I'm excited about this one. Marlene Tower is a fellow Medical Laboratory Scientist and she writes light horror with a very heavy Medical Laboratory influence. The first book, The Outbreak, took place in a large hospital in Texas and it was good. I personally loved it, but I'm sure I'm biased because of my profession. She did a great job writing characters that resembled people I'd worked with over the years. Every lab has at least one of each of them. It was a very relatable book, except for the zombies, of course. The second book The Inclusion will be available on November 4th. It follows the same main character from the first book as far as I can tell, but I know nothing beyond that.

Happy Reading!

-Q

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