📝 First Impressions I have a slightly complicated relationship with Rodica Ojog-Brașoveanu’s books. I absolutely love her crime novels, but her attempts at historical fiction have never worked nearly as well for me. That is why Răzbunarea sluților felt like…
📝 First Impressions Enigmă la mansardă starts with exactly the kind of promise I want from a classic mystery: something is wrong, something is hidden, and the truth is almost certainly more complicated than it first appears. What I liked…
📝 First Impressions Bună seara, Melania! will always have a special place in my reading history because it was the first book by Rodica Ojog-Brașoveanu that I ever read. At the time, I had no idea that I was discovering…
📝 First Impressions Apel din necunoscut comes from an author who has been part of my reading life for so long that I honestly find it difficult to remember a time when her mystery novels felt completely new to me.…
📝 First Impressions Lady Mechanika #0 caught my attention almost immediately because it combines two things I find difficult to resist visually: a Victorian-inspired world and steampunk. The machinery, elaborate costumes, strange technology and darker nineteenth-century atmosphere give the comic…
📝 First Impressions Never Lie by Freida McFadden starts with exactly the kind of setup I usually expect from Freida McFadden: simple, claustrophobic and immediately suspicious. Tricia and Ethan are newlyweds searching for a house when a snowstorm traps them…
📝 First Impressions Eeny Meeny begins with a familiar childhood rhyme, but M. J. Arlidge quickly transforms those innocent words into something genuinely unsettling. As the first novel in the long-running Helen Grace series, Eeny Meeny introduces Detective Inspector Helen…
📝 First Impressions Not Quite Dead Yet reminded me why I keep coming back to Holly Jackson’s books. Having already read and listened to several of her novels, I’ve come to expect clever mysteries, engaging characters, and stories that keep…
