Audio. Cocktails and chloroform by Kelley Armstrong

Narrated by: Kate Handford

Series: Book 2.5, A Rip Through Time Novella Duo

Release date: 10-21-24

Length:3 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher: K.L.A. Fricke Inc

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense /Own

I had to check out the novellas too. I also kind of felt it worked well on its own. Yes I have read the two previous books, but there was a nice explanation. But obviously you should start at book 1 because it is so good.

This one takes place under one night as Mallory spies on Alice, the young maid as she disappears into the night and Mallory is sure something is wrong. And then she has a whole adventure as something really sinister is going on.

Drama and danger promised.

But, you call Molotov cocktails Russian?!! Excuse me, we named them after a Russian to kill  Russians with them. Because he was an ass. The end.

A short listen too! I love those

For modern-day detective Mallory Atkinson, being trapped in the body of a Victorian housemaid means overcoming endless obstacles. Her current challenge is winning over the suspicious young parlormaid, Alice. Mallory’s plan starts with teaching the girl to make Molotov cocktails, which is a perfectly valid science experiment and not at all a desperate ploy to gain Alice’s attention. Before the lesson can begin, though, Alice receives a letter that has her slipping off in the night. Concerned for her safety—and naturally curious—Mallory follows.

Mallory finds Alice at what seems like a simple dance hall, watching young men and women flirting and whirling in pretty dresses and dapper suit-coats. But nothing here is what is seems, and what starts as a simple surveillance exercise turns into a full-scale spy mission with Mallory’s boss, Dr. Duncan Gray, at her side. Before the evening is done, those Molotov cocktails are probably going to come in handy.

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And dragons would be fantastic, but also scary as they would eat people and set fire to things so we would hunt them down

Anything fantastic would be used for the wrong reason in the end...like magic! I want magic

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Best of February

 

Spring are you here yet? 

Here are the bests of Feb!

Best Book of the Month:

Blodeuedd - Cocktails & Chloroform by Kelley Armstrong

"Best book was this novella. I really need to start book 3 soon."

Carole -  The Tempest by William Shakespeare

"Def best book. An oldie but a goodie!!"

Best Movie of the Month:

Carole -  Wuthering Heights (2026)

"I actually went to the theater twice to watch this. So yes. Best of Feb for sure."

Blodeuedd - Sisu (2022)

"I watched a Finnish movie(they speak English) where the Finn did not say a word . He just killed nazis. Good, but gore and blood."

Best TV show of the Month:

Blodeuedd - Stargate (s1)

"Stargate is on netflix! So I binged season 1!"

Carole - Bridgerton (s4)

"Season 4 of Bridgerton!! I laughed. I cried. I need more."

Best Cover of the Month:

B's pick: Best cover because it is just so 90s

C's pick: Look at that dress!

Audio: Love at First Psych by Cara Bastone

Narrated by: Santino Fontana, Stephanie Einstein, Mary Ann Jacobs, William Merryn Hill, Emily Bauer, Matt Boren, Piper Goodeve, Gabra Zackman, Mia Jenness, Elliott Fullam, Petrea Burchard, Ralph Lister, Jack de Golia

Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins

Release date: 03-02-23

Publisher: Audible Originals

Contemporary romance/from amazon

This one I chose because it was short and I have enjoyed her books before.

Marigold and Robbie are taking a class together and is paired for a group project. To talk to five couple and see if what they have is love at first sight. Not to ask about it, but to listen to their stories and to then figure out if it is real or not.

They interview couples. Robbie believes, Marigold does not. They get closer and obviously they are meant for each other.

It was cute, and I liked the full audio list. This was every new person had their own voice.

This Psych 312 assignment just might send me off the deep end. Determining whether love at first sight really exists with Robbie Moravian as my project partner of all people?

He’s the sappiest man alive, so upbeat I could scream, and clearly rooting for happy endings at every turn. How does he not learn from experience considering our own meet-cute last semester almost got us expelled?

But we both need to pass this course to graduate. So we’re interviewing five random couples about their meet-cutes and relationships and spending all this time together. Which is certainly...educational.

Because it turns out Robbie isn’t just the charming golden boy I thought I knew. There’s some actual depth beneath all those lame dad jokes and the ‘70s-inspired thrift wardrobe (even if he does look ridiculously great in a flared collar). Next thing I know he’s walking me back to my office on the regular and finishing all my sentences and protecting me from freak storms, and...

Wait. Could Robbie be right? Can happy endings really come from unhappy beginnings? Is he about to change my entire world view?

Group projects are the worst.