Audio: This Kingdom will not kill me by Ilona Andrews

By: Ilona Andrews

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Series: Maggie the Undying, Book 1

Length: 21 hrs and 33 mins

Release date: 03-31-26

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Fantasy/own

Why did I not write this review at once! Arghhh. I am over a week late, all the feels are disappearing!

This was just awesome and I could not put it down!

Maggie has a favorite fantasy series that she has read several times, but it is unfinished and suddenly she wakes up naked and filthy in that kingdom. Like what the hell?! And she also discovers in a most unpleasant way that she can not die! And it hurts, like so much.

But she knows this world, these people. She finds money, sanctuary, and plans gets set into motion. This kingdom is heading towards disaster. Maybe she can change some things to have people survive. But she needs help. A knight to do the work she can not. Some people that needs somewhere to go. She has allies, friends.

But she gets in trouble a lot trying to make her plans work. And dying really sucks.

Ohhh and that end, wtf?! Do not end it like that, i need more. Like now.

Awsome narrating too. Perfect in audio

When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, it doesn't take her long to recognize Kair Toren, a city she knows intimately from the pages of the famously unfinished dark fantasy series she's been obsessively reading and re-reading while waiting years for the final novel.

Her only tools for navigating this gritty world of rival warlords, magic, and mayhem? Her encyclopedic knowledge of the plot, the setting, and the characters' ambitions and fates. But while she quickly discovers she cannot be killed (though many will try!), the same cannot be said for the living, breathing characters she's coming to love—a motley band that includes a former lady’s maid, a deadly assassin, various outrageous magical creatures, and a dangerously appealing soldier. Soon, instead of trying to get home, she finds herself enmeshed in the schemes—and attentions—of dueling princes, dukes, and villains, all while trying to save them and the kingdom of Rellas from the way she knows their stories will in a cataclysmic war.

The blacktongue thief by Christopher Buehlman

Series: Blacktongue (#1)

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Published: May 27, 2021 by Orion Publishing

Fantasy/own

Well I am glad I read it first now cos I see it from 2020? and book 2 is coming first now! Good for me.

This felt very fantasy formula in a good way, I loved that. Kinch, a thief is told to follow a warrior, or that is convince her to let him follow. And when he does reach the city he will be told what to do.

Galva and Kinch sets out on an adventure. It is a continent ravaged by Goblins. There are rumours of giants. Galva is looking for a missing queen and Kinch is trying to stay ahead of his guild. They get another companion , and even meet a cat.

I enjoyed this. I love a good journey, friendship, lurking danger and more. Now I want the prequel too about Galva fighting in the goblin war. And book 2 as the stakes are high.

Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, trap-making, plus a few small magics. His debt has driven him to lie in wait by the old forest road, planning to rob the next traveler that crosses his path.

But today, Kinch Na Shannack has picked the wrong mark.

Galva is a knight, a survivor of the brutal goblin wars, and handmaiden of the goddess of death. She is searching for her queen, missing since a distant northern city fell to giants.

Unsuccessful in his robbery and lucky to escape with his life, Kinch now finds his fate entangled with Galva's. Common enemies and uncommon dangers force thief and knight on an epic journey where goblins hunger for human flesh, krakens hunt in dark waters, and honor is a luxury few can afford.

Diavola by Jennifer Thorne

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Published: March 26, 2024 by Titan Books

Horror/borrowed

I enjoyed this one. A haunted house and a dysfunctional family.

Anna is going to Tuscany with her family. They all think she will cause some kind of disaster. They do seem to blame her for everything. They will gaslight her too.

Everything seems pretty nice at first. Sure there are some issues with her brother´s new boyfriend, and her sister can at least be calmed with wine. But doors open, there is scratching, the locals avoid the place. Is the house haunted?

Things are getting creepier. Her family is so toxic and drives me crazy. Like please stop blaming Anna for everything!!

I honestly could not put it down after a while. I had to know!

Anna has two rules for the annual Pace family destination vacations: Tread lightly and survive.

It isn’t easy when she’s the only one in the family who doesn’t quite fit in. Her twin brother, Benny, goes with the flow so much he’s practically dissolved, and her older sister, Nicole, is so used to everyone—including her blandly docile husband and two kids—falling in line that Anna often ends up in trouble for simply asking a question. Mom seizes every opportunity to question her life choices, and Dad, when not reminding everyone who paid for this vacation, just wants some peace and quiet.

The gorgeous, remote villa in tiny Monteperso seems like a perfect place to endure so much family togetherness, until things start going off the rails—the strange noises at night, the unsettling warnings from the local villagers, and the dark, violent past of the villa itself.

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