Book Review: The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal

The Lost Ones (Nora Watts #1) by Sheena Kamal

My rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 (4 stars)
Publisher: William Morrow

Nora Watts is not the sort you'd call when you need help. She's in desperate need of help herself. Still, when the parents of the baby she gave up for adoption come calling, she's the only one with enough tenacity and single-mindedness to find her.

Book Review: Colony One by Tarah Benner

Colony One (The Elderon Chronicles #1) by Tarah Benner
My rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 (4 stars)
Publisher: Blue Sky Studio

I was in the mood for a space station story so I decided to give this a read. It's been in my TBR pile for a while and one of my resolutions this year is to whittle away at that more than I have in the past.

Book Review: Property: Stories Between Two Novellas by Lionel Shriver

Property: Stories Between Two Novellas by Lionel Shriver
My rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 (4 stars)
Publisher: Harper

I've had this collection in my TBR pile for a while and am so glad I decided finally to read it. All are stories about the relationships people have with property. The property they own or don't, want or don't, inherit or bequeath, buy or sell, the list goes on. I found myself taking sides and also seeing opposing points of view with plenty of eye-rolling and laughter along the way.

Book Review: Negative Image by Vicki Delany

Negative Image (Constable Molly Smith #4) by Vicki Delany
My rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 (4 stars)
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

This was a solid three-star for me until the last third of the book which catapulted to a four. What held the story back in my reading was that the murder mystery had Winters' wife at the center of the suspect list and she, in the three prior books is pretty much a blank of a character. Truth be told, by the end of this book, if I never read about her again, it won't really matter. As I write this review, I can't even recall her name (and it's been mentioned in all four books of the series!).

Book Review: Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds

Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds
My rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 (4 stars)
Publisher: Tor.com

This is my first read of 2020 and it was a good one! The world has gone through something called the Scouring where environmental upheaval leads to almost complete societal collapse and pretty much an extinction event and that has left humans with a final generation and one plan to save the future. There are two timelines that play out and converge here and I thought it was well done (and I'm not usually one for time travel stories). I felt the beginning was a bit slow but near the middle things really picked up and by the end, I wanted to know what happens next.