2.5 stars.
I may have liked this a bit better if I wasn't reading it during a readathon. Not enough plot for me and I just couldn't suspend my disbelief enough. The Bonner sisters seem almost pointless. As did Miel's roses.

I do love the writing style but with all of the above it often made me impatient and restless. Cause usually this type of atmospheric language is what pulls me into a syory. The similes, metaphors and descriptive language are something I really like. I could see all the pumpkins, every rose, smell the soaps, feel the water and taste the food. And I also really enjoyed the cultural aspects as well as Mile and Sam's backgrounds. Them learning who they are as individuals and together was interesting.

A really great book. Has a variety of plants including bushes, trees, herbs, and flowers. Various health uses: internally, topical or airborne from different plant parts. And its all simply put but useful information in both the health benefits (that sometimes include preparations) and the how to grow sections. Its rare a book this small has both this much info formatted in such an easy to digest manner.

This came and stole my soul again. That ending. The for 3/4ths is basically character development. If I did not love these characters and everything they did that would irritate me. This book as a whole is kinda filler. Kinda. But I loved it. I also didn't like how once the tournament started Lila had flashbacks. It seemed unnecessary. But gosh I loved this so much. Yeah another emotional review after just finishing.

First, its a beautiful book. The images, artwork, format and construction work together to make reading (and writing) a pleasant experience. They also bulk up the book a bit so its really not as long as it looks.

Second, I like and better understand the yin and yang portion of Ezzie's practice. However, I think the yin chapters are more explaining what yin is and isn't, than how to be during those periods of the moon cycles. The Yang times get examples while the Yin's don't really.

Overall, a nice uplifting book with nothing surprising but nothing harmful. I like that she kept things open enough for each reader to find their own path/cycle.

Better than the last one. The murderer was a bit more complex so the case had more details and lasted longer. Life without Sommerset is weird, lol. But I am loving Nadine's new guy, Kincaid. I hope he lasts a bit so we get future scenes with him and the rest of Dallas' family and friends. I'd like to see how he fits in her world. He reminds me of an early character in the series.

More of a strong 2.5 or 2.75. It was alright. Took awhile to get going. Literally 100 pages before plot started happening. Now I remember that Charlaine Harris is more of a character writer. But the weirdness of the few people that live in Midnight, Texas was so shrouded in mystery we got more of their regular every day than about paranormal powers or fantasy characteristics. This was a lot less about that than the Sookie Stackhouse series was. There were more hints as to what everyone was towards the end of the book. Joe and Chuy kind of took me by surprise. Anyway, even the whodunit, the plot as it were turned out to be very mundane, if a bit surprising. The towns solution got me a little teary-eyed since it really was the only one but Harris rightfully included many of them having doubts and being unable to consent. What would any of us do in that situation. Another point to highlight how human they all are. They are so regular that I overestimated almost everyone's ages in the first part of the book. I swore they were all at least 10 years older, minus Lemuel. Anyway, that was a ramble. I am not invested but curious about the next book. So I'll pick it up randomly one day.

4.5 I loved this book just as much as the previous ones. However, it being the end of the trilogy, it highlighted some of the issues of the previous two books. Or the trilogy as a whole. This was an amazing story set in a unique world with characters that you could really feel. But I think they way each book in the trilogy was written plot wise could have done with some rearranging. Its hard to explain here but I think a longer series where the bad guys could have been fleshed out more and relationships more natural seeming.

One thing I did not like was the issue with the Veskans and the Faroans. That definitely deserved its own book and focus. I would have also loved to know more about Kell's past, cliche as that may be. But its one of the many mysteries left behind at the end of this book. Though I respect his decision.

Loved it all. More gripping that the last book. More case focused than character focused but had some good moments between Dallas and Peabody and Dallas and Roarke. The whole Oscar thing was just as amusing as I expected. This case had me teary-eyed a lot. And I loved how to solve it it mostly came down to a lot of every day police work. Sifting, probabilities and hundreds of interviews. Its not all glamorous, hunches or egotistic bad guys dropping obvious clues. Sometimes its tedious grunt work.

Hmm, 3.5 stars for the Bear and the Nightingale. This was written like a more detailed folk tale. Like some parts have gone missing in time or memory. An incomplete story if you will. Looking at the blurb for the sequel I think that's on purpose. From the matter of fact way of life, to the various stories going on that only somewhat tie together but give a broad picture of life. But because if this it can drag in some parts and leave you wondering when we will get to the point. And then there's the ending. One can hope there will be more to the problems with the Bear in the sequels but who knows.

I don't know that Vasilia's being different has anything to do with anything other than being magical. The story makes it seem like she's some sort of historical tomboy or out of time suffragette. Especially when compared to every other female. But she isn't really. She doesn't fit in because she's literally not like them.

Anyway, the religious/spiritual aspects were very well done imo as a pagan. That's where the author excelled. There and in painting the picture of the setting. I felt cold the entire time while reading this. The people are all relatable somehow, even the Prince and the Metropolitan. Even Konstantine though you don't want to relate to him because his weaknesses are easily seen from the beginning. That's the type of man you don't want or shouldn't be a messenger of the Christian God and it comes across strongly.