TBR Saturday

So we often have friends releasing new books. And we love to recommend them. Here’s our book recommendations. We try to get it done every Saturday but we are busy so we may have missed a few.

What Moves the Dead By T. Kingfisher
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.

What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.
Guerrera Vee (Caliente Queen Series Book 2) By L.D. Wosar
She was a Rodeo Queen with a teasing smile and a taste for blood. Now she’s one step away from the throne—and everyone wants her dead before she gets there.
Valainah Arellano didn’t claw her way through fangs, fake friends, and a vampire makeover just to play nice in a den of backstabbing immortals. Glaciar Rojo, the Spanish coven she’s set to rule, is a powder keg of secrets, and the moment she ascends, someone’s bound to light the fuse.
At the top of the traitor watchlist? Santana Alamilla. Ruthless, power-hungry, and hiding knives behind every compliment. She wants the throne, and if Valainah slips for even a second, she’ll take it—and everything Valainah loves—with a smile.
Betrayal cuts deeps. Power is blood-soaked. Valainah didn’t survive Texas just to be down by vampires in silk suits and fake smiles. Let them come for her crown – she’ll show them exactly how a real queen rules.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory By Caitlyn Doughty
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty – a 20-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre – took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life’s work. With an original voice that combines fearless curiosity and mordant wit, Caitlin tells an unusual coming-of-age story full of bizarre encounters, gallows humor, and vivid characters (both living and very dead). Describing how she swept ashes from the machines (and sometimes onto her clothes), and cared for bodies of all shapes and sizes, Caitlin becomes an intrepid explorer in the world of the deceased. Her eye-opening memoir shows how our fear of dying warps our culture and society, and she calls for better ways of dealing with death (and our dead). In the spirit of her popular Web series, “Ask a Mortician”, Caitlin’s engaging narrative style makes this otherwise scary topic both approachable and profound.
Caitlin Doughty, the host and creator of the “Ask a Mortician” Web series and the collective Order of the Good Death, is on a mission to change the way we think about death.
The Trials of Alinwood By Anne Wright
Katherine needed a slight ego boost after the disastrous date where the guy seemed ready to run the moment the date ended. It would be nice to have someone think she’s desirable. But when her date shows up at her doorstep, he brings her to a magical kingdom of Orcs where she finds herself attracting three Orcs in one night. It sounds too good to be true. The next morning, she has to watch them fight to the death in the Trials.
Mar and Sal didn’t expect to bond with the woman Eric brought back from the human realm, but they hoped she would stay. That is, if they manage to live through the Trials.
Always Carry Your Scythe By Pip Paisley
Trixie D’Vita didn’t scythe. That was Mom’s gig. Then the Angel Investigative Bureau (AIB) turned up at Aunt Harry’s bar. Seemed the hottest afterlife gameshow in the Mystical Realms was misappropriating newly-departed souls. And Death was a person of interest. When the AIB can’t find Death, they come looking for Trixie, Death’s estranged daughter. Soon Trixie’s best friend is in dire peril. An AIB trainee is traipsing towards trouble. And Trixie, armed with nothing but a pocket-scythe, is plunging headfirst into the gaping maw of a trans-dimensional vortex. So not the evening she’d planned. Skittle-colored demons. Werewolf drag queens. Hellhound-doodle puppies. Lots of scythe. All in this rollicking, whimsical, empowering adventure.