Saving the Library

This book is going on my list for when someone says they want a "nice" book or a "happy" book.   I found this book, Louisiana Saves the Library,  while browsing in my local library a few weeks ago.  It took me a bit to get around to actually reading it but once I did, I was hooked, and wanted to know where the story was going.
The main character, Louisiana,  is a northerner by birth, living in Louisisana, teaching library science at a small college.  After lay-offs at the college, the divorced, single mother of two small children and her best friend end up at the small Alligator Bayou parish library and start breathing new life into it.  Along the way, she also finds a new house and someone to help her fix it up.  Louisiana finds the strength to stand up to her ex-husband, save the library in her new parish and build a new life for herself.
The cast of  supporting characters is realistic to anyone who has lived in a small town where change is slow and everyone seems to know each other..  While the main character is involved in most of the action in the book, the supporting characters are interesting and have lives of their own.  The "blurb" for this book at Amazon does not do a good job of representing the book, in my opinion.
This appears to be author Emily Beck Cogburn's first book.  I'll be keeping my eye out for more books by her in the future.

My other happy book is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Wasteland King

It's been longer than I thought since I've posted so here's a quick review.  Lilith Saintcrow  latest book in the Gallow and Robin series Wasteland King (Gallow and Ragged) is out and wraps things up neatly.  It's been a few weeks since I've read this book so this will likely be shorter than normal.
The story opens with Gallow waking in the Winter King's dungeon.  From there, he enters into an untold bargain with the Winter King involving the use of the King's horn ( which calls the Unseelie/Wild Hunt).  We then jump to what is happening to the other characters.  The story does jump around a bit between the main three characters as well as introducing and spending entire chapters on new characters,  only to kill them in the next few pages.  This happened far to often in my opinion and detracted from the flow of the story.
To wrap this up, if you like Urban fantasy, ( Cassandra Claire???) and want a different take on the fairy world, then check this series out.