Hey fellow readers! I hope you’re all doing well. I’ve been going like crazy this week because Thursday I had sinus surgery. So I was trying to get everything done early so I could relax. And now all I want to do is sleep. I haven’t been reading anything either, but I am trying to
Read More from: https://speedyreadercom.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/crazy-week/Review: The Plus One
Synopsis: A hilarious and heartwarming debut novel about a brilliant but socially inept robotics engineer who builds her own wedding date to her sister’s wedding, and learns more about love than she ever expected. Meet Kelly. Twenty-nine, valedictorian, and a brilliant robotics engineer to boot. While her professional life is on the rise, her personal…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/06/review-the-plus-one/Review: The Forgotten by Heather Graham
Synopsis: Murdered by a dead man? A woman named Maria Gomez is murdered in Miami, apparently by her husband—who’d been presumed dead, slain by a crime boss. FBI agent Brett Cody can’t believe it; dead or alive, the man had loved his wife. He also can’t help feeling guilty, since he was responsible for protecting…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/review-the-forgotten-by-heather-graham/Review: Horus by Eric C. Anderson
Synopsis: RECOVERING FROM THE LAST ROUND OF TERROR–AN EXHAUSTED U. S. PRESIDENT DEALS WITH THE SPECTER OF NUCLEAR HORROR. HORUS ends the thrilling “New Caliphate” trilogy, which began with OSIRIS and ANUBIS, where megalomaniacs battled zealots and America was caught in the crossfire. U.S. Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeant More and U.S. Army Special Forces…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/review-horus-by-eric-c-anderson/Review: The Christian Entrepreneur
Synopsis: The road to launching a successful business can be long and confusing. Where do you start? Should you rent office space or work out of your garage? Should you register as a for-profit or a nonprofit business? How should you handle legal issues that come up? What does it mean to be a “Christian”…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/review-the-christian-entrepreneur/Review: Two Steps Forward
Synopsis: Back and broke in Stoney Ridge, Jimmy Fisher has coasted as long as he could through life on charm, good looks, and deep-set dimples. They always worked just fine for him–until they didn’t. His smile has no effect on the violet-eyed beauty he met at the Bent N’ Dent, the one with that stunning…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/review-two-steps-forward/Review: The Duke’s Stolen Bride
Synopsis: An urgent dilemma… To save her impoverished family, Marian Langley will become a mistress. But she will not be just any mistress. Marian intends to become so skilled, so coveted, that she can set her own terms, retaining control over her body and her fate. Only one problem remains: finding a tutor… A scandalous…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/06/review-the-dukes-stolen-bride/Review: The Bromance Club
Synopsis: The first rule of book club: You don’t talk about book club. Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott’s marriage is in major league trouble. He’s recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. When he loses his cool at the revelation, it’s the final straw on their already…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/06/review-the-bromance-club/The Christmas Hypothesis
A book to enjoy reading for readings sake, especially at Christmas
Read More from: http://bookangel.co.uk/review/the-christmas-hypothesis/Touching Spirit Bear ~ Ben Mikaelson
Rating: 4/5 I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Despite being written by a white man, this book had a lot of really great elements to it. This book was recommended to me by one of my high school students, and I was surprised to find that it was mainly about Restorative Justice practices. We
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2020/02/04/touching-spirit-bear-ben-mikaelson/Review: The Look-Alike by Erica Spindler
Synopsis: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Girl and Justice for Sara comes a thrilling psychological drama about a woman who believes she escaped a brutal murder years ago—but does anyone else believe her? Sienna Scott grew up in the dark shadow of her mother’s paranoid delusions. Now, she’s returned home…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/04/review-the-look-alike-by-erica-spindler/Review: Heiress Gone Wild
Synopsis: Dear Lady Truelove, My ward is driving me crazy. I have to marry her off and get her out of my life. There’s just one problem… When Jonathan Deverill promised a dying friend he’d be guardian to the man’s daughter, he envisioned a girl in pigtails and pinafores, a child he could leave behind…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/05/review-heiress-gone-wild/Book Review: The War of Humanity by E. S. Dunn (4/5)
It would seem that Selison has it all. A prince on the planet Chaos (ky-ah), Selison lives in a tremendous castle, has a loving family, and has servants to take care of anything he wants. He is a compassionate warrior, he cares deeply about his people and is adored by them. Despite being the youngest
Read More from: https://bbmorgan.com/2020/02/04/book-review-the-war-of-humanity-by-e-s-dunn-4-5/Review: Drama Faerie by Joe Cosentino
Synopsis: It’s summer at Treemeadow College’s new Globe Theatre, where theatre professor Nicky Abbondanza is directing a musical production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream co-starring his spouse, theatre professor Noah Oliver, their son Taavi, and their best friend and department head, Martin Anderson. With an all-male, skimpily dressed cast and a love potion gone wild,…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/03/review-drama-faerie-by-joe-cosentino/January Showcase: Hunger by Roxane Gay
I will leave a full review of this book later on, but for now I just wanted to shoutout to Roxane Gay for her stunning memoir. I have not yet been disappointed by my reading, although I found this memoir to be significantly more powerful than Bad Feminist was. I read Bad Feminist at the
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2020/02/02/january-showcase-hunger-by-roxane-gay/Review: Engaged to the Earl
Synopsis: A spirited debutante—a brash adventurer—the perfect fiancé—and good intentions gone terribly, deliciously bad. The Penhallow Dynasty continues in this sparkling Regency romp! Christopher Beck came striding into a glamorous London drawing-room and can’t believe his eyes. The last time he’d seen Gwendolyn Penhallow, she was a dreamy, strong-willed girl with a wild imagination, and…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/02/review-engaged-to-the-earl/Review: The Third to Die
Synopsis: An edgy female police detective…An ambitious FBI special agent. Together they are at the heart of the ticking-clock investigation for a psychopathic serial killer. The bond they forge in this crucible sets the stage for high-stakes suspense. Detective Kara Quinn, on leave from the LAPD, is on an early morning jog in her hometown…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/02/review-the-third-to-die/Review: Dead Silence
Synopsis: In New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub’s riveting thriller, uncovering secrets in the past draws one woman into a killer’s web. . . No Such Thing as Coincidence . . . Staring into his frightened blue eyes, investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw Haines vows to help this silent little boy who is unable—or…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/01/review-dead-silence-2/Review: The Last Real Cowboy
Synopsis: In Cold River, sometimes forbidden love is the sweetest of them all… Perennial good girl Amanda Kittredge knows that her longtime crush on Brady Everett was never really supposed to go anywhere. But when Brady comes home to Cold River during Amanda’s first attempt at independence, well, who better to teach her about rebellion…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/01/review-the-last-real-cowboy/The Library Book ~ Susan Orlean
Rating: 4/5 This is a love story about libraries and librarians, sharing some lesser known details about the inner workings of libraries, as well as information about the Los Angeles library fire. Heavily observation based, you can tell Orlean is coming from a journalistic perspective through the questions she asks. I really enjoyed some of
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2020/01/31/the-library-book-susan-orlean/