The Review Curmudgeon

The Late Scholar by Jill Paton Walsh My rating: 4 of 5 stars Peter and Harriet return to Oxford, a place...

The Terriford Mystery by Marie Belloc Lowndes My rating: 4 of 5 stars A classic mystery story with a dif...

This is my eleventh annual roundup of recommended books that I read in the previous year. My summary page links to all the previous roundup...

The Complete Guild of the Eternal Flame Box Set by Talia Beckett My rating: 4 of 5 stars Sometimes, a de...

The Timekeepers by Jill Archie My rating: 3 of 5 stars Unusually for a steampunk/clockpunk novel, this o...

A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett My rating: 5 of 5 stars The second book of a series of wh...

Fundamental Magics: Leander's Machine by Alex Evans My rating: 3 of 5 stars From the author's bl...