by William Ritter
Oh my goodness, this series is so much fun! I loved this second book every bit as much as the first. It was great to see Abigail assert herself more and get to flex her paleontology muscles and get a glimpse of what might have been had her first fateful dig not failed so miserably. Still, I can’t be...
So it may help to read the first one in order to grasp a bit of understanding of the character relationships and the overall plot (there’s a main one underneath the layers here) ***Possible spoilers here you’ve been warned*** I loved the first one, really liked the characters and Jackaby’s quirk...
Back to New Fiddleham, New England with Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer, R.F. Jackaby, supernatural investigator. From shape shifters disguised as kitten-fish to a dig for dinosaurs and a great of suspicious deaths, this book has a lot going on. But, in the end, it all ties together. I lik...
Beastly Bones is the sequel to Jackaby by William Ritter and continues to follow Jackaby and his assistant, Abigail Rook as they solve yet another supernatural mystery. While I felt the first book was engaging from the start, this one took a few chapters to get into. However, that being said, once i...
While not nearly as fantastic as Jackaby, I still greatly enjoyed revisiting these characters and their world. There's still murder and mystery and ducks , with the addition of a frustratingly feminist reporter and also fish kittens and some deuced odd bones. We revisit old friends and gain some new...
Beastly Bones is a sequel to last year’s Jackaby, which I did enjoy. Abigail Rook, Jackaby, and Charlie return for this one, which features a mystery surrounding a recently discovered skeleton. I think I actually liked this one better than the first, as I felt that Abigail’s talents and personality...
I loved it! Really, William Ritter became one of my all time favorites. It is really hard to describe how I feel, but it is like he took everything I love and put it in one book. I love everything about it. The story. Characters. Atmosphere. Tone of the language. Everything. Plus there is Charlie......
Sometimes when I discover a new book that hits me right in the genres, I get the added thrill of learning that a sequel will soon be published. That’s what happened to me with William Ritter’s Rook and Jackaby series. I read the first one, Jackaby, through my local library. I was fortunate enough to...
I was lucky enough to be granted an ARC of Beastly Bones from NetGalley and I read Jackaby just a couple of days before I read Beastly Bones and that was a wise decision since the story in this book picks up right where we left Abigail and Jackaby in the last book; A woman with an ailing cat. Well a...
Once again, a huge thank you to Algonquin Books for providing me with an egalley copy of the book to review. “Jackaby” was one of the highlights among the books I read last year. It was refreshing, witty, and fast-paced, and I was very pleased when I learned a couple months ago that, indeed, there...
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