More like what is an antiracist….. **** While the title implies a “how to”, the book is more of a “what is”. The author, through his own personal struggle, defines what is a racist and what is not extremely … Continue reading →</a
Read More from: https://gutreactionreviews.com/2020/07/25/how-to-be-an-antiracist-by-ibram-x-kendi/Review: Threads
Synopsis: It’s a boring, hardscrabble life for three sisters growing up on a Michigan farm in the throes of the Great Depression. But, when young Nellie, digging for pirate treasure, discovers the tiny blue-black hand of a dead baby, rumors begin to fly. Narrated by Nellie and her two older sisters, the story follows the…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/07/25/review-threads/Review: Deep in the Alaskan Woods
Synopsis: In the wilds of Alaska, someone sinister is hunting… Alexandra Collister came to her estranged cousins’ B and B in Lost Lake, Alaska, looking for a fresh start. The sprawling forest surrounding the lodge can be harsh and unforgiving, but when Alex meets rugged wilderness tracker Quinn Mantell, he offers to be her guide….
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/07/25/review-deep-in-the-alaskan-woods/To Dare by Jemma Wayne [Q&A] (Legend Press Blog Tour)
This book was sent to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. 01.07.20 / Legend Press / Literary Fiction / Paperback / 272pp / 978-1789559835 About To Dare Veronica and her wealthy husband George are unpacking boxes, hoping a fresh start in their newly refurbished Victorian terrace will help them heal from……
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Rating: 2/5 DNF’d this book about a third of the way through. This book has such a pretty cover, and I’d heard it was a good survival story, but I didn’t know much a bout it other than that. A mysterious illness shows up on the island, where there’s a girls’ camp. They start falling
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2020/07/24/wilder-girls-rory-power/Review: The Presence
Synopsis: The ultimate moneymaking plan…buy the ancient, run-down Scottish castle and turn it into a tourist destination. Toni Fraser and her friends will put on reenactments combining fact and fiction, local history, murder and an imaginary laird named Bruce MacNiall. Just as someone arrives, claiming to actually be Laird MacNiall–a tall, dark, formidable Scot somehow…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/07/24/review-the-presence/Review: Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions
Synopsis: Nobody wants to have a chronic long-term illness. Unfortunately, most of us will experience at least one of these conditions during our lives. The goal of this book is to help people with chronic illness explore healthy ways to live with physical or mental conditions. A healthy way to live with a chronic illness…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/07/24/review-living-a-healthy-life-with-chronic-conditions/Vicky vs. The Spriggan
A solid horror read and straddles the border nicely between outright horror and teen paranormal
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Not enough and not much…….. ** While everyone was hoping that this would be a book giving us more dirt on DJT, from that perspective it is a disappointment. It is, however, a look into just how messed up … Continue reading →</a
Read More from: https://gutreactionreviews.com/2020/07/23/too-much-and-never-enough-by-mary-l-trump/Review: A Child Lost
Synopsis: A spiritualist, an insane asylum, a lost little girl . . . When Clive, anxious to distract a depressed Henrietta, begs Sergeant Frank Davis for a case, he is assigned to investigating a seemingly boring affair: a spiritualist woman operating in an abandoned schoolhouse on the edge of town who is suspected of robbing…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/review-a-child-lost/Review: The Unspoken
Synopsis: 1898: Bound for Chicago, the freighter Jerry McGuen goes down in Lake Michigan, taking with it every man aboard. But what other fate could befall a vessel carrying the ill-gotten sarcophagus of an Egyptian sorcerer? Now: A veteran diver and “ghost ship” expert is exploring the legendary wreck for a documentary. He dies inexplicably inside the…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/review-the-unspoken/Review: Ghost Walk
Synopsis: Rediscover the thrills and chills of this classic paranormal romantic suspense, book 2 in the Harrison Investigation series, by the queen of the genre, New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham. Nikki DuMonde’s newest employee is standing at the end of her bed at four o’clock in the morning begging for help. It’s a joke, right?…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/review-ghost-walk/Review: The Death Dealer
Synopsis: The Poe Killings… A string of homicides is mirroring the author’s macabre stories. And Genevieve O’Brien’s mother is next. Genevieve knows all about nightmares. She herself survived two months as a psychopath’s prisoner. And now this new menace stalks the city. Spooked by the bizarre slayings, she turns to P.I. Joe Connolly, her past…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/review-the-death-dealer/More Than Maybe ~ Erin Hahn
Rating: 4/5 More Than Maybe is a fun romance set in high school and centered around music, much like Hahn’s first novel. Luke and Vada’s romance is so sweet and inevitable. They’ve had a crush on each other for years, and finally collaborate on both of their secret passions: dance and composing. Luke Greenly has
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2020/07/21/more-than-maybe/How To Be Nowhere by Tim MacGabhann [Book Review] (Orion Blog Tour)
This book was sent to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. 23.07.20 / W&N (Orion) / Thriller-Suspense / Hardback / 272pp / 978-1474610483 Target Audience: Readers looking for a hard-hitting journo-thriller set in the troubled yet charming lands of South America. A story of revenge gone bad that leads to a……
Read More from: https://alwaystrustinbooks.wordpress.com/2020/07/20/how-to-be-nowhere-by-tim-macgabhann-book-review-orion-blog-tour-orionbooks-el_fodongo-howtobenowhere-timmacgabhann-orionbooks-sequel-blogtour-amreading-bookreview/Review: Don’t Keep Silent
Synopsis: Justice comes easy for these two. But forgiveness? That’s another matter altogether. Investigative reporter Rae Burke will do anything to find her missing sister-in-law, even if it means facing Liam McKade, a man who almost lost his life saving hers. A former DEA agent, Liam thought he could find peace at his Wyoming ranch,…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/07/18/review-dont-keep-silent/New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby
Rating: 5/5 1000 pages will be a piece of cake, I thought to myself. It’s nothing I haven’t done before. This book is unlike anything I’ve ever read. Busby rounded up over 200 authors who contributed works for this book, ranging from poetry to nonfiction. There are short stories, there are essays, there are small
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2020/07/17/new-daughters-of-africa-edited-by-margaret-busby/Review: The Unholy
Synopsis: The 1940s: hard-boiled detectives and femmes fatale are box-office gold. In one iconic scene, set in a deserted museum, the private eye arrives too late, and the buxom beauty is throttled by an ominous Egyptian priest. Now: the Black Box Cinema immortalizes Hollywood’s Golden Age in its gallery of film noir tributes. But the…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/07/17/review-the-unholy/Review: Nine by Rachelle Dekker
Synopsis: Zoe Johnson spent most of her life living in the shadows, never drawing attention to herself, never investing in people or places. But when a wide-eyed, bedraggled teenager with no memory walks into the diner where Zoe works, everything changes. Now, against her better judgment, Zoe, who has been trying to outrun her own…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/07/17/review-nine-by-rachelle-dekker/Review: Road Out of Winter
Synopsis: In an endless winter, she carries seeds of hope Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty—her family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now she’s been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn’t return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented extreme winter….
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