Y’all I am so behind at anything blog-related. Divorce stuff has kept me super busy and this fell completely by the wayside. Anyway, here are a few mini-reviews of audiobooks I’ve read over the last few months.

Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher (read by Jennifer Pickens)
This is a fascinating retelling of Snow White and probably my favorite Kingfisher so far. The imagery was astonishing, the characterization superb, and the twists unpredictable even in a retelling. Plus, talking cat. Can’t get much better than that. The narration is perfect, too.

It Had to Be Him by Adib Khorram (read by Corvin King and Vikas Adam)
I was so excited to see this follow-up to (not a sequel, but with the same characters as) I’ll Have What He’s Having, which is one of my top books of 2025. While I didn’t like this one quite as much, it was only a smidge less. Khorram is quickly becoming one of my favorite queer authors. His stories are nuanced and rich and so well-written!

The House of Quiet by Kiersten White (read by Katherine McEwan)
This was a fascinating book that was a pretty damning fantasy involving late-stage capitalism. Pretty apt, but honestly, that’s what I expect from White at this point! The story is about a group of kids either working for or patients in a remote sickhouse/prison where really weird stuff is happening and a huge war is going on around the world. Each character has their own motivations, and the POV swaps around to different heads so you see all these different pieces of the puzzle long before any of it starts to come together. Great book, and the audio narration was phenomenal!

The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch (read by Sam Stark)
This is my second experience with Raasch, both these sorts of fantasy-set-in-the-real-world type settings where magic happens but the Regular People either don’t notice or let the Magic Folks handle it. This is a story of rivals, of PTSD, of abusive families, and of classism and hierarchy. It’s also a gorgeously-written and very hot gay enemies-to-lovers story. The book far outweighed my first experience with the author, and I ran to see if there was a sequel/series (there is! hurrah!).