Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing this Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review; all opinions expressed in this review are my own. The "Sara and Sean Mystery" series is Carolyn Arnold's next offering to the cozy mystery genre. I had stopped reading cozy mysteries lately because of the... Continue Reading →
Yet another book that I purchased on a whim, The Collapsing Empire, the inaugural tale in the Interdependency trilogy by John Scalzi, is your standard space opera fare with an interesting twist. With this particular sci-fi subgenre, I’ve come to discover that it’s always the little things that make the story worth reading and Scalzi’s... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing this Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review; all opinions expressed in this review are my own. Chad Zunker's "All He Has Left" is another great find of 2023 for me. Zunker has published quite a number of books, with most of them... Continue Reading →
For some reviewers, books that invite you to “shut your brain off” are just asking to be raked across the coals. But I have found such works to be like candy. Sure, they may be the empty calories of literature, but if done well, can still be a plain fun time. And why not? Sci-fi... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing this Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review; all opinions expressed in this review are my own. In this next installment of the "Designing Debutantes" series, Sabrina Jeffries tells the interesting story of Eliza Pearce and Nathaniel Stanton. Eliza has been a widow... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing the Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review; all opinions expressed in this review are my own. "Trail of Deception," the second book of the "On the Edge" series by Amanda McKinney, expands on the dark and slightly creepy atmosphere she had already... Continue Reading →
Hey readers, another year gone and I am back with my second Revvies. I had read about 80 books last year but I couldn’t get around to publishing the reviews of many of those. All the same, this year’s Revvies will be awarded to books that were published in 2023, with the unpublished reviews coming up... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing this Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review; all the views expressed in this review are my own. I got into "The Running Girls" by Matt Brolly with high hopes, having loved his earlier book "The Pier." Let's see if my hopes were dashed... Continue Reading →
It’s been a good while since I’ve read any sci-fi fare that I could describe as “chunky.” By this, I mean textually dense and narratively deep, like my previously reviewed Entire and the Rose series by Kay Kenyon, Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun, and of course, Frank Herbert’s Dune books. Each of these present... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing the Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review; all opinions expressed in this review are my own. "Where We Belong" is the first book in a series of stories that take place in the fictional and beautiful Juniper Meadows brought to life by... Continue Reading →
What happens when two people who have been scarred by life and have faced the incessant whispers of people around them meet? In "The Accidental Inheritance" by Cate Woods, Cassidy and Ned are no strangers to adversity. Cassidy had a child out of wedlock and has recently lost her father. When she loses her job... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing this Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review; all opinions expressed in this review are my own. Another racy psychological thriller from Stacy Green featuring the ever intriguing Lucy Kendall is here. As much as I had liked the first two books in... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing this Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review; all opinions expressed in this review are my own. "A surgeon loses a patient for the first time on the table and she admits that she didn't want to save the patient" -- this is... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing the Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review; all opinions expressed in this review are my own. "Merchants Bridge" is the first book in J.D. Trafford's new Dark River series. Trafford is known for his legal thrillers and this is yet another addition... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Netgalley for providing the Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review; all opinions expressed in this review are my own. "Little Lost Souls" is a wonderful follow-up to the first book in the Lucy Kendall series and I enjoyed it a lot more. The story picks up a few months after... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Netgalley for providing the Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review; all opinions expressed in this review are my own. In this seventh installment of the "Bree Taggert" series by Melinda Leigh, Sheriff Bree Taggert has to protect her family when they are threatened by the violent Atkin family after she... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for this Advanced Reader Copy (ARC); all the opinions expressed here are completely mine. "Lie to Her" is the sixth book in Melinda Leigh's Bree Taggert series. I was impressed by her previous book in the same series, "Dead Against Her," and the circumstances of the story.... Continue Reading →
I must begin this review on a personal note, which is something of a change of pace from my other reviews thus far — not that this particular series is markedly different from others that I have reviewed. Rather, the connection this series has to popular adjacent literary trends begs an introduction to apply context. ... Continue Reading →
"Dark of Night" by Colleen Coble is the second book in her Annie Pederson thriller series. I hadn't read the first book but understood that Annie's husband and parents had passed away suddenly in an accident two years prior and she had gotten in touch with her childhood sweetheart, Jon, when he visits their small... Continue Reading →
For fantasy fans of the last couple of decades, Christopher Paolini is an author who needs no introduction, having penned his well-known Inheritance series that began with 2001’s Eragon, which is the story of a boy and his dragon, Saphira, and their link to a lost legacy of long-dead dragon riders in the land of... Continue Reading →
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