Rating: 4/5 While I fell into this book and had a hard time coming up for air, I think my expectations were still too high. Having read The Mothers when it first came out several years ago, I was expecting this book to a be a page turner, an unputdownable lull that I would fall
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2020/10/27/the-vanishing-half-brit-bennett/Meet Author Dominic Martell
Author Interview with Dominic Martell Q: When did you begin writing military suspense thrillers? I don’t exactly write military suspense; I’d call it espionage/foreign intrigue. I wrote the first novel in the Pascual series in 1998. Q: What was your first novel called? That was Lying Crying Dying. Q: Tell us what Lying Crying Dying…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/10/27/meet-author-dominic-martell/Review: Love and a Little White Lie
Synopsis: January Sanders grew up believing karma was more reliable than an imaginary higher power, but after suffering her worst heartbreak in 29 years, she’s open to just about anything, including taking a temporary position at her aunt’s church. Keeping her lack of faith a secret, January is determined to use her photographic memory to…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/review-love-and-a-little-white-lie/Review: Flipping Houses When You’re Dead Broke
Synopsis: How to Start a House Flipping Business Without Experience or Money – A Beginner’s Guide to Financial Freedom. Do you dream about escaping the boring routine of a 9-5 job and starting a profitable business? Has the current economic crisis cost you your job–your debts piling up without any source of income in sight?…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/10/26/review-flipping-houses-when-youre-dead-broke/Daisy Jones and the Six ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid
Rating: 4/5 This reads like journalism about a band that never existed. Except it’s really hard to tell that it never existed, because Reid does an excellent job of weaving the typical band drama into her characters’ lives, and they really seem like people who have their own lives and own dramas. I listened to
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/daisy-jones-and-the-six-taylor-jenkins-reid/Review: Sweet Dreams
Synopsis: The perfect bedtime lullaby for sweet dreams, from beloved Sesame Street characters! Join Elmo and your favorite Sesame Street friends while they get cozy and comfy for bed and say “night night” to all of their favorite objects and friends. This sweet and calming picture book from world-renowned brand Sesame Street is the perfect…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/review-sweet-dreams/Review: The Ultimate Survival Guide to Bedtime Monsters
Synopsis: A hilarious bedtime book that’s perfect for anyone, big or small, who’s afraid of what might be lurking under the bed. Do you like awake at night worrying about monsters? Donut monsters? Blue monsters? DANCING ROBOT MONSTERS?! Then this is the book for you! This guide offers ten easy steps to ensure you’ll never…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/review-the-ultimate-survival-guide-to-bedtime-monsters/Review: The Sowing Season
Synopsis: After he’s forced to sell the family farm he’s labored on his whole life, 63-year-old Gerrit Laninga doesn’t know what to do with himself. He sacrificed everything for the land–his time, his health, his family–with nothing to show for it but bitterness, regret, and two grown children who want nothing to do with him….
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/review-the-sowing-season/Review: The Best Kept Secrets
Synopsis: Alexandra Gaither is a savvy, beautiful attorney who finally has the power to get what she has always wanted — justice. Twenty-five years before, her mother died a scandalous death. Now as she investigates her mother’s former lover, his best friend, and the father figure to them both, she will risk everything to uncover…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/review-the-best-kept-secrets/Review: The Haunting at Bonaventure Circus
Synopsis: 1928The Bonaventure Circus is a refuge for many, but Pippa Ripley was rejected from its inner circle as a baby. When she receives mysterious messages from someone called the “Watchman,” she is determined to find him and the connection to her birth. As Pippa’s search leads her to a man seeking justice for his…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/review-the-haunting-at-bonaventure-circus/Review: The Holy Conspiracy
Synopsis: Erased from history—the forgotten story of how Jesus’s brother led the disciples in a bitter battle of faith against the Apostle Paul, the founder of Christianity. Haunted by the brutal execution of Jesus, his brother Yakov is desperately trying to piece together the fragments of his broken life. Dwelling in constant fear of persecution,…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/review-the-holy-conspiracy/A Song For The Dark Times by Ian Rankin
Irony at play….. *** Having been a fan of Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus series, I was anxious to read the newest novel. On page two, Rankin refers to the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child, this should have … Continue reading →</a
Read More from: https://gutreactionreviews.com/2020/10/23/a-song-for-the-dark-times-by-ian-rankin/Lock and Key ~ Sarah Dessen
Rating: 4/5 Yet another Dessen novel, yet another mother-daughter relationship gone awry. Lock and Key presents Ruby, a girl left to live out the last 9 months before her 18th birthday alone. Her mother has taken off, to where Ruby has no idea. All she knows is that she thinks she can pull it off,
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2020/10/23/lock-and-key-sarah-dessen/Review: When We Stayed Home
Synopsis: When Covid-19 traveled the globe, we were prompted to stay home, wash our hands frequently, socially distance and wear masks to remain safe and help the helpers. For children who don’t yet grasp the concept of time and haven’t weathered enough life to understand the art of endurance, it’s been a particularly complicated and…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/10/22/review-when-we-stayed-home/Review: My Last Duchess
Synopsis: New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James returns to the Wildes series with a prequel about the Wilde children’s parents, Hugo, Duke of Lindow, and Ophelia, Lady Astley. Every Duke needs a Duchess… Hugo Wilde, the Duke of Lindow, has a drafty castle, eight naughty children—and no wife. Ophelia, Lady Astley, has a fine house,…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/10/23/review-my-last-duchess/Review: The Secrets We Bury
Synopsis: Nothing stays buried forever… Doctor Rowan Dupont knows death. She grew up surrounded by it in her family’s Victorian funeral home, and it’s haunted her since the day her twin sister drowned years ago. Between her mother’s subsequent suicide and the recent murder of her father, coming home to run the funeral home feels…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/10/20/review-the-secrets-we-bury/Review: No Offense
Synopsis: A broken engagement only gave Molly Montgomery additional incentive to follow her dream job from the Colorado Rockies to the Florida Keys. Now, as Little Bridge Island Public Library’s head of children’s services, Molly hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate—in the form of a newborn…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/10/21/review-no-offense/Review: Emerald Blaze
Synopsis: As Prime magic users, Catalina Baylor and her sisters have extraordinary powers—powers their ruthless grandmother would love to control. Catalina can earn her family some protection working as deputy to the Warden of Texas, overseeing breaches of magic law in the state, but that has risks as well. When House Baylor is under attack and…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/10/21/review-emerald-blaze/All Adults Here ~ Emma Straub
Rating: 5/5 Character driven family drama that breathed life back into my love of reading. I was beginning to feel stuck in my old path of non-fiction and YA romance, as every book I had turned to that did not fall into one of those two categories continued to disappoint me. Thank goodness for Emma
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2020/10/20/all-adults-here-emma-straub/Review: The Adventures of Grandmasaurus
Synopsis: The Adventures of Grandmasaurus” features a quirky Grandma who magically sneezes herself into different dinosaurs while on a field trip with her two grandchildren. When Grandma starts behaving like a dinosaur the kids quickly learn this will not be a regular field trip! There is a world of adventure searching and identifying Grandmasaurus. This…
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