I see you've enjoyed Sleep No More. Perhaps it's my mood, but I've felt it a bit "ploff", I don't know. Too much Arcane without being Arcane.
I bought the epub and that's how I started reading it, but then listened to the rest of it as audio from the library. Maybe that helped?

The story mentioned





Burning Cove, which we know has Arcane Society connections even if Arcane hasn't actually been mentioned. I just figure it's part of the same world and the main characters in this new series don't know about the Arcane Society (possibly yet).

But if the story didn't click for you, that's cool too. Not all of her books have worked for me.
I agree with the spoiler, yes, and I guess that some other elementes are Arcane related. Let's see the next one, it happened the same for me with the Guild book she published last year after her hiatus.
Weekly Report:

Read:

• The Heart of a Ruler (Capturing the Crown #1) by Marie Ferrarella (B/4 stars)
• The Princess's Secret Scandal (Capturing the Crown #2) by Karen Whiddon (C/2 stars)
• The Sheik and I (Capturing the Crown #3) by Linda Winstead Jones (D+/2 stars)
• Royal Betrayal (Capturing the Crown #4) by Nina Bruhns (B/4 stars)
• More Than a Mission (Capturing the Crown #5) by Caridad Piñeiro (D-/1 star)
• The Rebel King (Capturing the Crown #6) by Kathleen Creighton (D/1 star)
• Tested (Legacy of Magic #4) by Lindsay Buroker (A/5 stars)

Purchased:
Mercy Blade is the third in Faith Hunter's Jane Yellowrock series. It has dropped to $1.99/£0.99 in the US/UK respectively...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0046ECFLI
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0046ECFLI
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mercy-blade
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0046ECFLI
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0046ECFLI









Keep meaning to try at least the first one in the series, which was on sale a while back, but it has never made it to the top of my TBR list...
Weekly Report:

Read:

• One Last Chance (One Day to Forever #3) by Therese Beharrie (B-/3 stars)
• Mysteries of Thorn Manor (Thorn Manor #1.5) by Margaret Rogerson (A-/5 stars)
• Shelter from the Storm (Konigsburg #8.7) by Meg Benjamin (C/2 stars)
• Late Bloomer (Konigsburg #9) by Meg Benjamin (B+/4 stars)

Purchased:
none
@library addict, due to the last changes in Amazon, I've migrated to Lindsay Buroker's patreon too....
Oh, yay. You are just in time to get the entire Dragon Blood series bundle. She also sent it to her newsletter subscribers at the beginning of the pandemic so you may have already had it.
I also just joined her Patreon a couple of days ago, but what's this about a bundle?


In the January round-up post on her Patreon page (and you should have also gotten an email) there are links to The Complete Dragon Blood Series bundle and Chains of Honor prequel novellas (formerly known as the Swords & Salt trilogy) as well as the books she published this month. The links go to bookfunnel where you can download whichever version (epub, mobi, etc) you need.

Her Patreon is pay-by-project paid for on the 1st of the next month. So for instance this month it will be $5 only for Tested. If you are the audio-book level there were two releases this month. The people in the audio level get all the digital (epub/mobi) releases inluded in their membership.

Often she gives away free older books (mostly the book ones, but sometimes whole bundles).

At this point I've purchased or been given all of her books so no more surprise freebies for me. But it is a very nice perk.