GoodReads Monday

This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.

Happy Monday to you all! I hope your week is off to a marvelous start. Mine is starting off ok. The weather was terrible over the weekend, with lots of rain. It is continuing for the next couple of days as well. I don’t think we will see sunshine until the end of the week. But at least it has been warm so we don’t have to worry about ice! Always need to find the silver lining when you live in a place that is mostly cloudy and rainy for half the year.

This week’s pick for this post is the third book in a series that I have been enjoying very much. The newest book comes out in a couple of weeks and I am really looking forward to it.

Cold Iron Task by James J. Butcher

Publication Date: March 4, 2025

Summary from Goodreads:

Grimsby, a junior Auditor in the magical Department of Unorthodox Affairs, finds himself on the other side of the law in this spellbinding urban fantasy.

Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby may have one case under his belt, but he’s still a novice Auditor in Boston’s Department of Unorthodox Affairs. And he’s already made mistakes.

Desperate to repair his fraying friendships, he doesn’t ask too many questions when a mysterious patron offers him the chance to join a heist of an otherworldly vault—and in the process find answers that could make things right.

Complications arise when Grimsby learns that his partner, Mayflower, is keeping secrets about his past. Between facing new demons, old horrors, and monsters—both Usual and Unorthodox—Grimsby soon realizes nothing is how it appears and that not asking enough questions just might be his downfall.

I have really enjoyed this series and I am really looking forward to this edition. I don’t think it is a trilogy and their doesn’t seem to be an indication that this is the final one, which is good. I think this could be a great urban fantasy series that could continue for awhile. If you want to read my reviews of the first two books, just click on their titles below.

Dead Man’s Hand Long Past Dues

Until next time…