Rating: 4/5 Anxious People was one of my more enjoyable audio listens recently. The production was good, with the narrator using distinct voices for each of the characters. It was a fun romp of the testimonies from those involved in a hostage situation following a bank robbery. Now, you may be thinking that this premise
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Synopsis: After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name―and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she’s used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/02/13/review-the-night-swim/Review: The Moonlight School
Synopsis: Haunted by her sister’s mysterious disappearance, Lucy Wilson arrives in Rowan County, Kentucky, in the spring of 1911 to work for Cora Wilson Stewart, superintendent of education. When Cora sends Lucy into the hills to act as scribe for the mountain people, she is repelled by the primitive conditions and intellectual poverty she encounters….
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/02/12/review-the-moonlight-school/Gods of Jade and Shadow ~ Sylvia Moreno Garcia
Rating: 3/5 I found this book harder to concentrate on than Moreno-Garcia’s more recent novel, Mexican Gothic. This book was more about the journey, as Casiopea travels with Hun-Kame (the Mayan God of Death), than the outcome. We watch Casiopea discovering herself, her boundaries, interests, and ability to love herself alongside Hun-Kame discovering what it
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2021/02/12/gods-of-jade-and-shadow-sylvia-moreno-garcia/Review: A Dance in Donegal
Synopsis: All of her life, Irish-American Moira Doherty has relished her mother’s descriptions of Ireland. When her mother dies unexpectedly in the summer of 1920, Moira decides to fulfill her mother’s wish that she become the teacher in Ballymann, her home village in Donegal, Ireland. After an arduous voyage, Moira arrives to a new home…
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an interesting story that may make you think but lacks the impact to drive home it’s points
Read More from: http://bookangel.co.uk/review/the-green-dress/Review: We Begin at the End
Synopsis: There are two kinds of families: the ones we are born into and the ones we create. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/review-we-begin-at-the-end/Review: Friends Like Us
Synopsis: Fans of Jill Shalvis, Susan Mallery, and Robyn Carr will love this charming, relatable, laugh-out-loud women’s fiction read about letting go of the past, taking a chance on love, and embracing life under the summer sun.Bree Rhodes and Jill Kelly have been best friends since kindergarten. When Bree survives a cancer scare, the knitting…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/02/10/review-friends-like-us/Review: The Heart of a Texas Cowboy
Synopsis: Fall in love in the Lone Star State with this 2-in-1 edition of USA Today bestselling author Katie Lane’s western contemporary romances Going Cowboy Crazy and Make Mine a Bad Boy. A secret twin . . . A secret baby . . . Things are heating up in the Lone Star State! Going Cowboy CrazySlate Calhoun is in a quandary….
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/02/10/review-the-heart-of-a-texas-cowboy/Review: Reunited on Dragonfly Lane
Synopsis: In this romantic adventure, anything is paws-ible when a single shop owner makes a connection with her new vet. Boutique owner Sophie Daniels certainly isn’t looking to adopt a dog the day veterinarian Chase Lewis convinces her to take in Comet. A rambunctious puppy with a broken leg may not be the best choice…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/02/10/review-reunited-on-dragonfly-lane/As Far as You’ll Take Me ~ Phil Stamper
Rating: 4/5 Stamper’s novel features a young (just out of High School) man who travels to London to escape his homophobic hometown. At least, he perceives it to be homophobic, ever since the hate crimes and his own botched coming out story. While his parents didn’t kick him out of the house, they weren’t exactly
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2021/02/09/as-far-as-youll-take-me/A Dead Djinn in Cairo ~ P. Djeli Clark
Rating: 5/5 This novella took me by surprise. Available for free to read at TOR.com, this is a great option for trying out some recent speculative fiction. I picked this up after I happened upon an e-galley for the third installment on NetGalley, so have no fear, by late spring there will be three novellas
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2021/02/07/a-dead-djinn-in-cairo-p-djeli-clark/Red, White, and Royal Blue ~ Casey McQuiston
Rating:5/5 One of my top romance reads of the year, McQuiston’s book is a fun one I’d highly recommend. This made politics feel sexy. Centered around the fictional First Son falling in love with Prince Henry, there’s a lot to live about this book. Alex doesn’t realize he’s bi until he begins to question that
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/red-white-and-royal-blue-casey-mcquiston/Daughter of Poseidon
A pleasure for any fan of the YA Fantasy genr
Read More from: http://bookangel.co.uk/review/daughter-of-poseidon/Book Review: A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigit Kremmer (5/5)
This book was in the stack of library books I picked up back in July, and I now realize how foolish I was for letting it sit on my dresser for so long. I loved this book – the characters were charming, the world was just as big as it needed to be, and the
Read More from: https://bbmorgan.com/2021/02/04/book-review-a-curse-so-dark-and-lonely-by-brigit-kremmer-5-5/Review: Dreaming of Death
Synopsis: Sweet dreams aren’t made of this Ever since she was a child, Stacey Hanson has had strange dreams—and sometimes they come true. Her skills and experience led her straight to the FBI’s Krewe of Hunters. Now a serial killer is stalking Washington, DC, and people are scared. And it will be Stacey’s first case….
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/review-dreaming-of-death/Review: First Comes Like
Synopsis: The author of The Right Swipe and Girl Gone Viral returns with a story about finding love in all the wrong inboxes… Beauty expert and influencer Jia Ahmed has her eye on the prize: conquering the internet today, the entire makeup industry tomorrow, and finally, finally proving herself to her big opinionated family. She has little time for…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/review-first-comes-like/Broken Things: A Tale of Durstan by George Mann [Book Review]
This book was sent to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. 01.12.20 / PS Publishing / Fantasy / Hardback / 116pp / 978-1786366948 About Broken Things: A Tale Of Durstan The goddess Amaranth, Queen of the Broken, has been reborn for the first time in generations and now resides once more……
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Rating 3/5 All of these characters are just the worst. Yet the art is good, the storyline is somewhat intriguing. For some reason I just keep coming back to them. It’s kind of fun to read a graphic novel where I hate all the characters but the other elements are enjoyable. I think it’s that
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/snotgirl-vol-2-bryan-lee-omalley/Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick ~ Zora Neale Hurston
Rating: 3/5 While I acknowledge this work as a literary masterpiece, a well-themed and put together collection of short stories, I struggled with the themes throughout the book. Set during the Harlem Renaissance, this collection centers around relationships between men and women, and all the subversive dynamics that go with relationships. There are a lot
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