Wait, is this year really almost half over?! WTF, I hoped for more from each of my few remaining years!

Read: Blood Tally (Brian McClellan): Sequel to Uncanny Collateral, our part-troll collections agent and his snarky ring get tangled up in another surprisingly important affair

Read: Death of an Irish Mummy (Catie Murphy): Third in Kit’s “Dublin Driver” series, and the main character is already taking a lot of grief for having dead bodies turn up. I’m surprised the cops don’t just throw her in jail whenever somebody in Dublin is murdered, to keep her from getting involved.

Read: A Pilgrimage of Swords (Anthony Ryan): Sword and sorcery, a protagonist with a horrible past and a cursed sword, monsters, dead gods, distant lands with strange customs.

Read: The Kraken’s Tooth (Anthony Ryan): More sword and sorcery. The main character might feel bad about his bloodstained past, but he’s still awfully hard on places he passes through.

Words: Check, barely.