Synopsis: Addie Greyborne loved working with rare books at the Boston Public Library—she even got to play detective, tracking down clues about mysterious old volumes. But she didn’t expect her sleuthing skills to come in so handy in a little seaside town . . . Addie left some painful memories behind in…
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Synopsis: A Cape Cod shop owner and her book club must find a crafty killer in this charming new series from the Agatha-nominated author of the Country Store Mystery series. Summer is busy season for Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida’s bicycle shop, nestled in the quaint, seaside hamlet of Westham, Massachusetts. She’s expecting…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2018/09/26/review-murder-on-cape-cod/Review: Becoming Mrs. Lewis
Synopsis: In a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a world where women were silenced, she found her voice. From New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called “my whole world.” When poet and writer Joy Davidman…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2018/09/26/review-becoming-mrs-lewis/Waiting On Wednesday: No Way by Simon Morden
Waiting-On-Wednesday Good morning everyone and welcome to another Waiting-On-Wednesday here on ATIB. This is a weekly posted created by Breaking The Spine. It is just an opportunity to share a title that you are eagerly waiting to be released. I just saw this on Gollancz’s website so I jumped straight on here and drew this……
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I wasn’t sure what I was getting into with Patrick Canning’s Cryptofauna. When I was queried for a review, I almost passed and I’m glad I did not. Down on his luck Jim is something of an Arthur Dent kind of character from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy… amid his life falling apart all around
Read More from: https://authorchristopherdschmitz.wordpress.com/2018/09/25/review-cryptofauna/Review: Downright Dead
Synopsis: Holly Davis never imagined having a haunted bed and breakfast would be the secret to her success—or that a secret might leave her B&B DOA . . . After the syndicated TV show, Inquiring Minds, airs footage of their resident ghost at Holly Grove, a converted antebellum plantation house, it…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2018/09/24/review-downright-dead/Cryptofauna by Patrick Canning (Q&A)
Q&A with Patrick Canning Greetings and welcome to my author interview with Patrick Canning, author of Cryptofauna. This novel sounds all kinds of bizarre, funny and intense so I am definitely intrigued to give it a go. Patrick agreed to a Q&A in the meantime to shed a bit more light on what he is……
Read More from: https://alwaystrustinbooks.wordpress.com/2018/09/25/cryptofauna-by-patrick-canning-qa-cryptofauna-patrickcanning-bizarre-global-games-interview-questions-independentlypublished-exciting/A Dream Called Home ~ Reyna Grande
Expected publication Tuesday October 2nd, 2018! Rating: 5/5 I’m a sucker for memoirs, but Grande’s memoir is so beautiful and makes me want to read the rest of her body of work immediately! Grande’s writing is vivid, yet feels simple and approachable. It’s clear the amount of effort she put into picking just the right
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2018/09/23/a-dream-called-home-reyna-grande/My Monster by Einat Segal
Girl meets boy, boy turns out not be human. This is one of those YA-style stories with a first-person, snarky teen narrator. I’d say it’s more a teen drama with fantasy elements than fantasy with teen drama elements, but I still enjoyed it. The main character is well developed, the writing’s very readable, and the
Read More from: http://ingeniouscat.co.uk/wp/my-monster/Review: Steamed Open
Synopsis: It’s summertime in Busman’s Harbor, Maine, and the clamming is easy—or it was until a mysterious new neighbor blocks access to the beach, cutting off the Snowden Family Clambake’s supply. Julia Snowden is just one of many townspeople angered by Bartholomew Frick’s decision. But which one of them was…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2018/09/23/review-steamed-open/Book Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer (3/5)
CINDER, a gifted mechanic in New Beijing, is also a cyborg. She’s reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s sudden illness. But when her life becomes entwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she finds herself at the centre of a violent struggle between the desires of an evil queen – and a dangerous
Read More from: https://bbmorganblog.wordpress.com/2018/09/22/book-review-cinder-by-marissa-meyer-3-5/Cryptofauna by Patrick Canning
A young man is inducted into a hidden world of magic and super-beings enagaged in a mysterious competition. Whether you enjoy this book or not will largely depend on your sense of humour. Obviously, I did. Apart from the general daftness, there’s a familiar urban fantasy premise and conventional plot structure, which holds the story
Read More from: http://ingeniouscat.co.uk/wp/cryptofauna/Review: Pecan Pies and Dead Guys
Synopsis: Sometimes Verity Long would like to forget that she lives with the ghost of a 1920s gangster. But the reluctant housemates must once again work together when a dead detective blackmails Frankie into helping him solve a Great Gatsby-era cold case. Before she can say “bathtub gin,” Verity is dragged…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/review-pecan-pies-and-dead-guys/Throwback Thursday: Darien (Empire Of Salt ) by C. F. Iggulden
Throwback Thursday – Darien My wife has always been a huge fan of Conn Iggulden but I was never fussed until I stumbled across Darien last year. What a novel! Think Game Of Thrones condensed down into one city with a metric ton of pure magic thrown into the mix and add one of the……
Read More from: https://alwaystrustinbooks.wordpress.com/2018/09/20/throwback-thursday-darien-empire-of-salt-1-by-c-f-iggulden-michaeljbooks-darien-conniggulden-empireofsalt-michealjoseph-penguin-fantasy-twelvefamilies-onethrone-throwbackthursday/All These Shiny Worlds II
For speculative fiction readers, this comes with a stamp of must-read
Read More from: http://bookangel.co.uk/review/all-these-shiny-worlds-ii/Thoughts on Middle Grade books to read aloud
As a Classroom Case Manager at a small alternative school in Vermont, my job might be a little different than you might imagine. I’m a part of these kids daily school days, from helping them settle in in the morning and get a balanced breakfast to tying their shoes. I teach social skills, DBT, read
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2018/09/19/thoughts-on-middle-grade-books-to-read-aloud/Review: Freedom’s Light
Synopsis: USA TODAY bestselling author Colleen Coble explores the mystery and the romance of the Revolutionary War. A young lighthouse keeper must navigate the dangerous waters of revolution and one man’s obsession with her to find safe harbor with the sea captain she loves. Hannah Thomas believes she’s escaped Galen Wright’s…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2018/09/19/review-freedoms-light/The Corset by Laura Purcell (Book Review)
This book was sent to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. 20.09.2018 / Raven Books (Bloomsbury) / Thriller – Historical Fiction / Hardback / 416pp / 978-1408889619 Target Audience: Readers who are for a nuanced tale of murder, circumstance and revenge. Gothic, emotional and haunting. About The Corset Is prisoner Ruth……
Read More from: https://alwaystrustinbooks.wordpress.com/2018/09/19/the-corset-by-laura-purcell-book-review-spookypurcell-bloomsburyraven-thecorset-laurapurcell-ravenbooks-bloomsbury-gothic-murder-curse/Review: Gift of the Shaper
D.L. Jennings uses tight language and well-paced action to move his hero, Thornton Woods, along on his quest to save his father in Gift of the Shaper. This is very much a coming of age tale as Thornton comes into his own, alongside his friend Miera, at the beginning of the book. But Thornton is
Read More from: https://authorchristopherdschmitz.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/review-gift-of-the-shaper/Review: Everything She Didn’t Say
Synopsis: In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn’t Say imagines Carrie…
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