Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Mar 17
Book Review: Cursed (Alex Verus #2)
Cursed by Benedict Jacka I love the idea of Alex Verus, a mage whose main/only real skill is divination. It’s such a clever concept, to have a protagonist with a “soft” skill like seeing the future who nonetheless uses it to avoid bad guys and rain down comeuppance on those who thwart him. Verus is …
Jan 04
Book Review: Entangled Life
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake This book taught me how much I don’t know about mushrooms. It’s basically like the fungal equivalent of “The Secret Life of Trees” when you pick up a book wondering how much there is to learn about such …
Dec 20
Book Review: The Promise Girls
The Promise Girls by Marie Bostwick I’ve been reading so many psychological thriller books lately that when Audible recommended this to me, it took a while to realize that no one was going to disappear in a violent and mysterious manner and that there probably weren’t massive hidden mental health issues causing people to stab …
Nov 16
Book Review: When You Find Me
When You Find Me by P.J. Vernon This is an ok psychological thriller/police procedural audiobook that I probably would have enjoyed a lot more if I hadn’t read so much in the genre. Grey King, a wealthy heiress from South Carolina, comes home to her familial estate to celebrate Christmas with her mother and her …
Nov 09
Book Review: Murder by Other Means
Murder by Other Means by John Scalzi This short audiobook is the sequel to The Dispatcher, a murder mystery set in a world in which anyone who is murdered returns to life at home unharmed. The protagonist, Tony, has a job in which he murders people who are about to die by other means so …