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I tried this one because of Boyfriend…( like many others.) The narration was atrocious. and the story unappealing. Lesson learned.

Felt like a (very bad) copycat of a book. Narration made it a bit hard to know who was speaking. I really didn’t care what happened to any of the characters in the book. Many times I felt like stopping… I should have!

A vampire scholar who looses his home to tax officials – original and very promising! Unfortunately the rest is boring standard stuff: a group of different characters become friends while fighting an endless row of monsters with an endless choise of magic.

I listened to We Could Be So Good a few years ago, and am really happy to have rediscovered this well written historical fiction, if one can consider the 1950’s historical. Cat Sebastian’s author’s note at the end provides the research she did in order to anchor the story of two men who work together,..

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The female 60 year old smoker narrator was terrible to listen to especially since she was voicing a man. I found the story hard to follow as well. I didn’t even realize until halfway through that the smoker lady wasn’t the wife. The author also stole the main plot line from misery.

I’ve read and listened to book a bunch of times so these characters and story are like old friends. 1950’s/early 1960’s NYC, with true elements of the Mets in there, making me go and lean about. Like many of Cat’s books, it’s the loveable characters, the plausible story plus the real history and the book..

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Wonderful story! I am off to read the next one. Great listen and world building.

This book is so well-balanced, there’s true love and passionate love -making interspersed with genuine affection and live for a troubled child.

Book 2 – seems to be repetitive with the main character still failing to develop. She does become a nymph and has new powers but she is still clueless/helpless. I jumped around from boredom. She ends up back at square one in the maze. Odd book, kind of a waste.

A Deception of Courts raises the tempo for Robin Icethorn’s war—they’ve broken the court gates, but now they’re fighting gods, demons, and the cracks in alliances they once trusted. Alderson leans into raw stakes and sharp betrayals—some of the best twists land hard, stretches of diplomacy throughout showcase Alderson’s writing. The found-family ties and Duncan’s..

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