Review: Lone Women

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

Publisher One World Penguin Random House
Publication Date March 28, 2023
Library Purchase We purchased this in our digital catalog

Synopsis

Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It’s locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear.

The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land for those who can tame it—except that Adelaide isn’t alone. And the secret she’s tried so

Review: That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon

 

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved A Demon by Kimberly Lemming 

Publisher: Kimberly Lemming

Release Date: August 9, 2021

Library Purchase: Absolutely!!! 

Synopsis

All I wanted to do was live my life in peace. Maybe get a cat, expand my spice farm. Really anything that doesn’t involve going on a quest where an orc might rip my face off. But they say the Goddess has favorites. If so, I’m clearly not one of them.

After saving the demon Fallon in a wine-drunk stupor, all he wanted to do was kill an evil witch enslaving his people.