Flame – Donna Grant

The series is getting a little slow but still a few surprises now and then. The multiple series are combined now and really just one long series you do need to have read the other to not get lost but worth the reading

Red Queen ~ Victoria Aveyard

Rating: 4/5 After seeing this book everywhere, I finally decided to pick it up now that the series is either finished or significantly further along. Let me just say, I was a little shocked by how much I enjoyed the story! This is a plot based YA fantasy, heavy on the politics. There’s a lot

The Pact Between Angels and Witches

This is a high speed contextless supernatural swirl of tex

Book Review: Last Stand by Rachel E. Carter (4/5)

He’s the Black Mage and she’s the traitor to the Crown. Ryiah’s world was shattered the night she discovered King Blayne’s nefarious plans. Now, she has to betray the one she loves most in order to save the realm from war. Torn between love and duty, Ry finds herself on a perilous mission to help

Review: Gone with the Rogue

Synopsis: A powerful handsome rogue finally meets his match in Gone With the Rogue, the second book in the First Comes Love series from bestseller Amelia Grey. She had an acceptable marriage of convenience. Now widowed, can this determined and beautiful mother find true and forever love? The sinking of the Salty Dove took her husband’s life―but it…

Review: Inspired Mama

Synopsis: Inspired Mama is the ultimate mind, body, and lifestyle guide for women seeking to live their best life in motherhood. As mothers, women tend to give up on their personal dreams and emotional self-care in order to take care of their families. Too often, we end up giving in to social pressures and external expectations…

Review: The Summer Deal

Synopsis: From New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis comes a friends-to-frenemies-to-sisters story… And then add in a love story (okay, two love stories). Shake. Stir. Read on a lazy summer day at the beach. Brynn Turner desperately wishes she had it together, but her personal life is like a ping-pong match that’s left her scared and…

The Gunslinger ~ Stephen King

Rating: 3/5 Stephen King is the only author I know who would write not only and Introduction but also a Foreward for his own book. He seems to me to be obsessed with himself, and with reflecting on his own writing. However, I found both the Introduction and the Foreward to be amusing and insightful,

Review: Dream within a Dream

Synopsis: Trudi Coffey only realizes that she hasn’t seen Samuel Hill in weeks when the FBI shows up asking questions about him. After a strange encounter with an armed man demanding her help and an attack by a member of the Boston mob looking for someone named Dream, Trudi manages to find Samuel–or rather, he…

Hunger ~ Roxane Gay

Rating: 5/5 Hunger is one of the most powerful books I’ve read. Hunger is raw, ugly, beautiful, explicit, angry, compassionate. Hunger is a book worth reading. I read Hunger at the beginning of the year, in January. My awe of Gay’s openness throughout the pages continued to grow the more I read. Although this book

Darkness and Light

Students or readers of poetry may enjoy this but the lack of varied forms does, at times, make it feel very repetitive

Fair Warning by Michael Connelly

Fair warning, not that good…… ** The Poet is the best book by Connelly. Much like The Stand by King or Intensity by Koontz, it represents the time when he wrote at his best, caring more about the story than … Continue reading →</a

Review: Kissed by C.J. Shane

Synopsis: Cat Miranda returns to her childhood home in Bisbee, Arizona, to take over her brother’s art gallery following his untimely death. On her first night home, an intruder breaks in. Cat quickly realizes that she is being targeted by a murderer with links to an 8-foot tall painting in the gallery titled “Kissed.” In…

Review: Hadley Beckett’s Next Dish

Synopsis: Celebrity chef Maxwell Cavanaugh is known for many things: his multiple Michelin stars, his top-rated Culinary Channel show To the Max, and most of all his horrible temper. Hadley Beckett, host of the Culinary Channel’s other top-rated show, At Home with Hadley, is beloved for her Southern charm and for making her viewers feel like family….

School for Psychics ~ K.C. Archer

Rating: 2/5 Teddy is a bumbling twenty-something looking for ways to fix her mess-ups. She’s dropped out of college, has a gambling problem, and epilepsy that seems unchecked to boot. She doesn’t know what to do with herself, and trying to win big one last time at a casino she’s already been kicked out of

Review: The Love Scam

Synopsis: A sweet and sassy contemporary romance from New York Times bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson. Rake Tarbell is in trouble. When the fabulously wealthy and carefree bachelor wakes up horribly hungover in Venice, it’s not something that would normally be a problem…except he has no idea how he got there from California. Or who stole his wallet….

Review: On a Coastal Breeze

Synopsis: For Madison Grayson, life is good. Newly licensed as a marriage and family therapist, she can’t wait to start her practice. Despite the unfortunate shortage of eligible bachelors on the island–they’re all too young, too old, or too weird–Maddie feels like she’s finally found her sweet spot. Not even one panic attack in the…

Review: The Lying Room

Synopsis: It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morning-after visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their pied-à-terre still…

A Wizard of Earthsea ~ Ursula K. LeGuin

Rating: 3/5 I had a harder time reading A Wizard of Earthsea than I was expecting. I had heard a great deal about LeGuin’s writing, and wanted to understand her place in the development of the fantasy genre. A Wizard of Earthsea seemed like a good place to start, as it is a young adult

Review: On Ocean Boulevard

Synopsis: The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Guests returns at long last to her beloved Beach House series in this breathtaking novel about one family’s summer of forging new beginnings against the enduring beauty and resilience of the natural world. It’s been sixteen years since Caretta “Cara” Rutledge has returned home to…

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