Synopsis: When elite members of the military are murdered on the streets of Washington, DC, FBI Special Agent Bailey Ryan and NCIS Special Agent Marco Agostini must work together to bring the perpetrator to justice. Unfortunately, all evidence points to a Navy SEAL sniper whom Bailey refuses to believe is guilty. When Bailey and Marco…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/01/26/review-end-game-by-rachel-dylan/Review: The Train to Impossible Places
Synopsis: A train that travels through impossible places. A boy trapped in a snow globe. And a girl who’s about to go on the adventure of a lifetime. The Impossible Postal Express is no ordinary train. It’s a troll-operated delivery service that runs everywhere from ocean-bottom shipwrecks, to Trollville, to space. But when this impossible…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/01/26/review-the-train-to-impossible-places/Review: Seven Waves by Valeria Lopes
Synopsis: How well do we really know ourselves? How often do we act without ulterior motives? How lavishly have we fooled ourselves by our apologies? How endlessly do we blame others and God for our unhappiness? Looking for answers, we join the mystery of a man who is lost, both physically and emotionally, in a…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/01/26/review-seven-waves-by-valeria-lopes/Review: An Uncommon Woman
Synopsis: Unflinching and plainspoken, Tessa Swan is not your typical 18th-century woman. Born and bred on the western Virginia frontier along with her five brothers, she is a force to be reckoned with. Quiet and courageous, Clay Tygart is not your typical 18th-century man. Raised by Lenape Indians, he returns a hero from the French…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/01/26/review-an-uncommon-woman/Review: Managing Worry and Anxiety
Synopsis: Scripture says “be anxious for nothing,” yet most of us find ourselves increasingly worried and anxious–about our families, our jobs, our finances, our security, and so much more. We’re even worried about our level of anxiety! Integrating both the psychological and spiritual aspects of anxiety, therapist Jean Holthaus offers this research-driven and faith-informed approach…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/01/26/review-managing-worry-and-anxiety/Review: Scot Under the Covers
Synopsis: The second in the seductive new Scottish historical romance Wild Wicked Highlanders series from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Enoch! In Scot Under the Covers, a resourceful English lady and a hot-blooded Highlander join forces to trick a scoundrel, and every rule will be broken! Miranda Harris is known for her charm, wit,…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/01/26/review-scot-under-the-covers/Tweet Cute ~ Emma Lord
Rating: 4/5 Tweet Cute is a solid young adult romance novel. There aren’t many unexpected twists, it’s the kind of book where you see the uncomfortable scenes coming from a mile away and are cringing the entire way up to them, knowing the inevitable before the characters can realize it. This romance has wonderful elements
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2020/01/24/tweet-cute-emma-lord/Review: An Everyday Hero
Synopsis: From award-winning author Laura Trentham comes an emotionally layered novel about redemption, second chances and discovering that life is worth fighting for. At thirty, Greer Hadley never expected to be forced home to Madison, Tennessee with her life and dreams of being a songwriter up in flames. To make matters worse, a series of…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/01/23/review-an-everyday-hero/Review: Chasing the White Lion
Synopsis: Young CIA officer Talia Inger has reconciled with the man who assassinated her father, but that doesn’t mean she wants him hovering over her every move and unearthing the painful past she’s trying to put behind her. Still, she’ll need him–and the help of his star grifter, Valkyrie–if she hopes to infiltrate the Jungle,…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/01/23/review-chasing-the-white-lion/Review: Heartbreaker by Joanne Rock
Synopsis: From passion to betrayal and back again… He knows she’s coming for him… And he’s ready to turn the tables! When tabloid columnist Elena Rollins shows up uninvited to a private, star-studded party at Mesa Falls, Gage Striker sees red. Though it’s been six years since their abrupt breakup, the scars—and attraction—are still fresh….
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/01/21/review-heartbreaker-by-joanne-rock/I Believe in a Thing Called Love ~ Maureen Goo
Rating: 4/5 Desi has always rejected the K-dramas her dad watches as just silly romance. She’s always put more stock in things she can control, lists, good grades, extracurriculars to help her get into a good college. But when she meets a transfer student, a young artist, she wants to try out having a boyfriend,
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2020/01/21/i-believe-in-a-thing-called-love-maureen-goo/Review: Rule Breaker by Joanne Rock
Synopsis: He always gets what he wants… She’s strictly off-limits. That’s never stopped him before. Rebellious rancher Weston Rivera knows saving April Stephens during a blizzard at his luxury retreat is risky. But it’s not nearly as dangerous as the desire blazing between them. After all, Weston is a prime target of April’s current financial…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/review-rule-breaker-by-joanne-rock/Spartan Destiny – Jennifer Estep
This is the ending of a story arc but hopefully not the end of the series. I enjoyed this one a lot we get a chance to see the characters from her other series. Jennifer Estep is a master at world-building that is very complex and clever and allows for her many series to exist in
Read More from: https://booksinbrogan.com/blog/2020/01/20/spartan-destiny-jennifer-estep/Snow Day – Andrea K Höst
A fun quick read in the Touchstone world, since I love all things Touchstone I was so happy to get a new quick view on how the “Earthers” are seen by the regular people
Read More from: https://booksinbrogan.com/blog/2020/01/20/snow-day-andrea-k-host/Review: Seduce Me with Sapphires
Synopsis: Three childhood friends dare to defy the rules of London—and love—in this glittering series from New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather… A FLAWED CUT… The Honorable Miss Fenella Grantley has a secret: she’s been taking drama classes and longs to be an actress. Ladies of her standing don’t appear on stage, but Fenella…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/01/19/review-seduce-me-with-sapphires/Best YA of 2019
Young adult has been a long time favorite genre of mine, and it is becoming increasingly more so my favorite with it’s strong focus on diversity and inclusivity in the voices we are hearing. Voices from characters and authors alike are stronger than ever before in the genre that’s continually evolving and finding its place
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2020/01/19/best-ya-of-2019/Review: Cilka’s Journey
Synopsis: In this follow-up to The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the author tells the story, based on a true one, of a woman who survives Auschwitz, only to find herself locked away again. Cilka Klein is 18 years old when Auschwitz-Birkenau is liberated by Soviet soldiers. But Cilka is one of the many women who is…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/01/19/review-cilkas-journey/Kindred ~ Octavia Butler
Rating: 5/5 Having read Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, I was looking forward to my next Butler read. I was not disappointed. In fact, Kindred impressed me with such a different style and feel compared to the duology I had previously read. Hopping back and forth through time, this science fiction
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2020/01/17/kindred-octavia-butler/Explorations in Form: New Small Press Releases
It’s the goal of small presses such as Inside the Castle, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Schism, and others like them to publish unconventional forms of literature, those in the expanded field — whatever that might entail. Book-objects that play with what literature is capable of, what it can do or contain. Here, I want to explore some
Read More from: https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/small-press-reviewsReview: The Way of the Brave
Synopsis: Former pararescue jumper Orion Starr is haunted by the memory of a rescue gone wrong. He may be living alone in Alaska now, but the pain of his failure–and his injuries–has followed him there from Afghanistan. He has no desire to join Hamilton Jones’s elite rescue team, but he also can’t shirk his duty…
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