I picked up an ARC of this book at Wiscon, so there was no tip-off cover picture. It wasn't clear what I'd got, but the back-cover copy was convincing: A bookshop open late at night? Vampires? Strong female main characters? Yes please. The book was really good. I read it in one sitting (overnight...
About midway through the month, the weather got squirrelly as fuckâcrisp fall days bookended by raw, cold, and rainy on one side and summery surges on the other. Not that his apartment was ever what you might call orderly, but the piles of clothes on his bedroom floor (what Val had once referred ...