making life a little sweeter
5/5 stars! A wonderfully-thrilling final book to the Frey and McGray series, The Sign of the Devil is full to the brim of twists and turns with family secrets revealed and bombshells dropped mercilessly throughout. It was everything I had hoped it would be and so much more. Multiple grave-robberies? Murdered asylum patients? The sign… Continue reading The Sign of the Devil, Oscar de Muriel
2021 was a great year of reading for me. I really hit a great stride with my reading and the books I came across. Like my reading in 2020, I read a fair bit of poetry and discovered some new writers who I already have a list of their books that I want to read… Continue reading Books I Read in 2021
The Dance of the Serpents, Oscar de Muriel 5/5 stars! Ah, another incredible addition to the Frey & McGray Series. The Dance of the Serpents is a delayed follow-up of the events from the second book in the series, A Fever of the Blood. If you're new around here you can check out my reviews… Continue reading The Dance of the Serpents
The Darker Arts, Oscar de Muriel You only need to look at my book posts on here to know that I love Oscar de Muriel's books. His Frey & McGray series is without a doubt my favourite series of all time (yes, I would even say above A Series of Unfortunate Events). So when I… Continue reading The Darker Arts
A Mask of Shadows, Oscar De Muriel  First of all, I'd like to say that if you are not familiar with any of the previous Frey & McGray cases then you can read my reviews for them here; where I have reviewed both The Strings of Murder and A Fever of the Blood.  A… Continue reading Book Review: A Mask of Shadows
A Fever of the Blood, Oscar de Muriel  In this second case of Frey and McGrays, what starts as a simple inquest into a patient escape and a nurses death at an asylum ensues into a manhunt far beyond their jurisdiction of Edinburgh and down to Pendle Hill, home of the Lancashire Witches. The pair… Continue reading Book Review: A Fever of the Blood
The Strings of Murder, by Oscar De Muriel After becoming hooked on the darker books, like Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and The Hound of Baskervilles, I was finding it difficult to become interested in any other reads. Nothing seemed to grip my attention enough. Then this book came along.  The book is centered around… Continue reading Book Review: The Strings of Murder
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