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A Letter to the Luminous Deep and A Letter from the Lonesome Shore (The Sunken Archive Duology)

Book covers for A Letter To the Luminous Deep and a Letter from the Lonesome Shore by Sylvie Cathrall. Both covers feature an underwater scene with deep blue in the center fading to lighter blue at the top. Around the edges of the cover are various sea creatures and plants, along with shells, letters, and other items mentioned in the books

I highly, highly recommend A Letter to the Luminous Deep (2024) and A Letter From the Lonesome Shore (2025) by Sylvie Cathrall, especially if you like epistolary novels, academic fantasy, and the idea of an underwater world created by the ancestors. I listened to them both, and recently found out that Luminous Deep was aContinue reading “A Letter to the Luminous Deep and A Letter from the Lonesome Shore (The Sunken Archive Duology)”

Death in the Spires

Death in the Spires (2024) by K.J. Charles is the third book of hers that I’ve read, and the first mystery. I really enjoyed it! Set primarily at Oxford in 1895/ 1905, the lead character is Jeremy “Jem” Kite, a clerk who never finished his course of study after one of his group of friendsContinue reading “Death in the Spires”