A lifelong genre reader, I grew up reading fantasy, sci-fi & mystery in Puerto Rico, then found Romance in a post-grad school burnout haze! When Iโ€™m not reading, talking about books or knitting Iโ€™m a school librarian.

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Ana Coqui

Reader, Reviewer & Librarian

2025 August Mini Reviews

  1. A Witches Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

(SAW/WM, Cozy magical romance with a fantastic found family)Loved this book despite its bittersweet ending.

(racism, classism, ableism, PT: abandonment, toxic family).

share.libbyapp.com/title/10029178

  1. The Lady in Glass and other stories by Anne Bishop (short story collection, audio, Cw: graphic SA)

This collection was a times horrifying, enthralling, traumatizing, amusing and heartbreaking but always compelling and thought provoking. Several stories will stay with me for a long time.

  1. Inheritance by Ilona Andrews (LitRPG?, 40+ WW mc) I read most of the serial during a stressful June and then read it twice in a row upon official release.

I loved it. Loved the MC, her determination and the challenges she faces.

CWs: violence, murder, grief, abandonment, death of coworkers.

  1. The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective by Jo Nichols (cozy mystery, audio)

After an ex-con moves in a dead man is found & the ex-con accused. But Golda is determined to clear his name and gets all the residents to help.

CWs: murder, alcoholism, grief, PT: stalking

https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781250402882

65-67. Hidden Legacy 1-3 by Ilona Andrews (audio re-read).
I cruised through the Graphic Audio adaptation of Burn for Me only to discover that White Hot is not out till mid September! Had to go back to the traditional audios.

CWs: violence, murder, guns, stalking, PT: War, death of parent: cancer

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