This is the rare book that I recommended to both my husband and mother...who read totally different kinds of books! In essence, this is a book about characters ripped out of the past, learning the present, and the character-building plus slow-burn romance were my favorite parts. But there's also a very thought-provoking social commentary side plus a dollop of Arctic exploration. It's the kind of book that benefits from multiple reads and is delicious enough to make that sound like fun.
A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley.
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
The cover and blurb didn't hook me, but the book inside was that perfect blend of excellent worldbuilding plus lovable characters that I'm always looking for. A title that deserves to be much better known than it is!
Desires and loyalties clash when a sensual assassin and an intriguing enemy agent must fight together in this exciting debut by Ada Harper. For Olivia Shaw, the danger of her assignments as a deadly Whisper agent is matched only by that of her hidden status: Liv is one of the caricae, extremely rare women capable of bearing children and therefore controlled by the Syndicate's government. When her handler sends her into the Quillian Empire, her mission is complicated by stumbling upon a kidnapping in progress. Liv is drawn deep into political upheaval when her hostage is revealed to be the…
Kit McCafferty's life is quiet, unremarkable and filled with cat hair. In the magical city of Coldstream, located on the border between Scotland and England, Kit is viewed as little more than mildly eccentric and mostly harmless. She passes her days caring for her family of five cats, feeding the local feral moggies, and maintaining relatively good relations with her neighbours.
All that changes, however, when a teenage werewolf shows up at her door in the desperate hope of renting out a nearby vacant flat. Kit knows that the smart move is to tell…
Lone wolf Wren stays one step ahead of mate markets with the help of her ghostly friends. Then an alpha who banishes ghosts at a touch offers her a mating of convenience just as one of her ghosts becomes stuck in his territory. Will Wren risk everything to save her friend?
