Stars: 2.5 out of 5 Honestly, my reaction after finishing this book is “meh.” I went into this book excited about the premise. An underwater city? Humanity averting the end of the world for once? This sounded so exciting! Unfortunately, we spend little to no time at all in the actual underwater city. And the … Continue reading Midnight, Water City (Water City 1) by Chris McKinney </a
Review: Meet This Author!
Q&A with Author J Lynn Else Q: When did you first begin writing stories?I’ve always loved stories and books. I must have started writing more seriously in middle school, ‘seriously’ meaning that people started noticing, as a friend gifted me with a blank book “for all the future stories I would write.” I never really… Continue Reading →</a
The Chameleon
Definitely one for modern horror and urban paranormal fans with a taste for the gory or macabre
Review: Paradise Cove
c Paradise Cove by Davin Goodwin April 1-30, 2022 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: Every day is paradise on Bonaire—until something unexpected washes ashore On the laid-back island of Bonaire, every day is paradise until a seaweed-entangled human leg washes ashore. Combing the beach, retired cop Roscoe Conklin examines the scene and quickly determines that the… Continue Reading →</a
Review: Summer at Stallion Ridge
Synopsis: “Clear off space on your keeper shelf, Fossen has arrived.”—Lori Wilde, New York Times bestselling author Can two old friends rekindle the spark that brought them together when their pasts are littered with land mines? The chance to be near his young son is the only thing that could entice former SWAT commander Matt Corbin back… Continue Reading →</a
Review: Scattered Legacy
Synopsis: To outsiders, the relationship between Manhattan antiquities assessor Annalisse Drury and sports car magnate Alec Zavos must look carefree and glamorous. In reality, it’s a love affair regularly punctuated by treasure hunting, action-packed adventure, and the occasional dead body. When Alec schedules an overseas trip to show Annalisse his mother’s birthplace in Bari, Italy, he squeezes in the… Continue Reading →</a
Review: The Bucharest Dossier
Synopsis: Bill Hefflin is a man apart—apart from life, apart from his homeland, apart from love At the start of the 1989 uprising in Romania, CIA analyst Bill Hefflin—a disillusioned Romanian expat—arrives in Bucharest at the insistence of his KGB asset, code-named Boris. As Hefflin becomes embroiled in an uprising that turns into a brutal… Continue Reading →</a
Review: Last Dance with a Cowboy
Synopsis: Can this wandering cowboy convince his first love that he deserves a second chance in a charming contemporary romance for fans of New York Times bestselling authors Jennifer Ryan and Maisey Yates—with a bonus novella by Carolyn Brown! Leila Valentino will do anything to keep her grandparents’ Colorado winery afloat. Even partner with August Harding, the… Continue Reading →</a
Review: Trigger Point
Synopsis: When the CIA recruited him… …they said he would need to make sacrifices for his country. Did he understand they meant he’d give up everything? Growing up in the Midwest, Nicholas, a farm boy, knew how to work hard and understood the importance of friends and family. It’s 1985 and his old coach just… Continue Reading →</a
Review: The Last Grand Duchess
Synopsis: This sweeping new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Woman Before Wallis takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Romanov, the first daughter of the last Tsar. Grand Duchess Olga Romanov comes of age amid a shifting tide for the great dynasties of Europe…. Continue Reading →</a
Dark Betrayal
as a standalone read, this real world horror short is not as engaging as the longer book it leads int
The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
Stars: 5 out of 5. This was an amazingly, delightfully creepy book! The older I get, the less I seem to enjoy horror books, especially the gore and guts kind of horror. I still enjoy the atmospheric, psychological horror, but I find it hard to find good book that don’t repeat the same tired clichés … Continue reading The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher </a
Forever Mine
Partway between a standard PI story and a cozy mystery, a light afternoon’s read to unwind, entertaining and engaging
Last Exit by Max Gladstone
Stars: 2.5 out of 5 It pains me to give a less than stellar rating to Max Gladstone, but this is the first book of his I’ve been disappointed with. How can a book about found family, road trip, end of the world, parallel universes and so on be so… boring? I loved this author’s … Continue reading Last Exit by Max Gladstone </a
Top 10 Children’s Books with Adjectives in the Title
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week’s prompt seems a little odd to me, but … Continue reading Top 10 Children’s Books with Adjectives in the Title</a
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
Stars: 2.5 out of 5 I’m always eager to discover new voices in literature, especially if they come from other cultures. Those authors always have very unique outlooks at life that you won’t find in our Western civilizations. It definitely broadens my horizon as a reader. So I was very eager to pick up this … Continue reading The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa </a
Challenge Book: The Bronze Bow
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare Book Description He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. –from the Song of David (2 Samuel 22:35) The Bronze Bow, written by Elizabeth George Speare (author of The Witch of Blackbird Pond) won the Newbery Medal in 1962. This gripping, action-packed … Continue reading Challenge Book: The Bronze Bow</a
City of Dreams and Dust
grandiose tales in the far future, but with a lack of focus on the stor
Review: Trust Me
Synopsis: When Delaney Broward finds her best friend stabbed to death a decade after her brother suffered the same fate, she must confront her painful past in order unmask a killer who isn’t done yet. How can this be happening again? Delaney Broward has spent the last ten years rebuilding her life after finding her… Continue Reading →</a
Q&A with Author Richard H. Stephens
Meet Author Richard H. Stephens Q: How old were you when you first started to write? What was the names of that first story?I was 9-years-old. Because of my love of Hardy Boys’ books, I decided to write something similar. I combined my last name with my best friend’s last name and called the book:… Continue Reading →</a