Okay, let's get caught up here! First up, Charlaine Harris's latest book featuring Gunnie Rose. Lizbeth and her new crew have been hired to take a crate into Dixie. The train they are on derails, and most of her crew is killed (not by the train, by other gunnies). Grigori Eli shows up and he and Lizbeth team up to figure out who stole the crate (and what was in it). I'm not a huge fan of these books so far, they feel a little rushed. But at least they're quick reads.
Three Lord John novellas (more Lord John, please!!). The first one, "Lord John and the Hellfire Club" finds Lord John entangled in a dangerous underground society. "Lord John and the Succubus" has him in Prussia, investigating a series of mysterious deaths that the locals (and the soldiers) are attributing to a female demon. And finally "Lord John and the Haunted Soldier": Lord John is badly wounded in battle when a canon explodes. After being questioned by the higher ups, he begins to wonder if maybe the canon exploding wasn't such an accident. They were all good fun.
"Seven Stones to Stand or Fall" is a collection of assorted Outlander short stories and novellas. There were some good Lord John ones in there (his mother is the BEST. I really want Starz to make a Lord John series just so I can see who is cast as Benedicta Grey), but also some that featured other characters, like Michael Murray (Jenny and Ian's son) and Joan MacKimmie.
And finally, having finished everything I could get my hands on about Lord John, I turned to a real British soldier, Richard III. Matthew Lewis is a Ricardian, but I felt this book was very fair and balanced: he really tried to strip away all the interpretations and rumors that have persisted over the last 500+ years and just judge Richard by his actual deeds. The only thing I didn't care for was how he left the original spelling of documents he quoted. I can't read them easily, so I'd be merrily chugging along and hit a block of text with that Medieval English and grind to a halt, trying to puzzle it out. Other than that, I enjoyed it.
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