Author: StoreyBook Reviews

Review – Pocket Full of Stars by W.M. Akers @ouijum #scifi #action #futuristic

    Synopsis   A kickass scifi mystery about love, art, and magic It’s Earth. The far future. And Galaxy Greg, an interstellar nightclub magician, is fed up. He craves adventure, the open road. He wants to remember how it felt when he was a kid, when magic seemed real. He’s about to get a taste—and […]

Excerpt & #Giveaway – Water Music by Marcia Peck @Bookgal #fiction #contemporary

    Synopsis   The bridge at Sagamore was closed when we got there that summer of 1956. We had to cross the canal at Buzzards Bay over the only other roadway that tethered Cape Cod to the mainland. Thus twelve-year-old Lily Grainger, while safe from ‘communists and the Pope,’ finds her family suddenly adrift. […]

Excerpt – The Darcy Secret by Kelly Miller @Kellyrei007 #historical #romance #regency

    Synopsis   Will a dire family secret lead to Fitzwilliam Darcy’s ruin? Darcy’s heartfelt conversation with Miss Elizabeth Bennet leads to their engagement. But just when his future could not appear brighter, a dreadful revelation casts a cloud of gloom over him, threatening his hopes and plans. And when an ominous shadow of […]

Review & Recipe – Gather by Janet Fletcher #AbramsDinnerParty #cookbook #cooking #partner

    A Wine Country cookbook that celebrates sustainable, garden-to-table dining Some of the tastiest California cooking today comes from wineries with edible gardens, and now you can take a visual tour of these magical culinary green spaces, peek inside the winery kitchens that reap the harvest, and bring sun-ripened flavors into your own home […]

Book Blast – Hot Pot Murder by Jennifer Chow #cozy #mystery

        Hot Pot Murder (L.A. Night Market) Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Setting – California Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley (June 6, 2023) Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages   Synopsis   Trouble is brewing for cousins Yale and Celine Yee after a hot pot dinner gets overheated and ends […]

Guest Review – It’s Not All About You by Elisabeth L. Morrissey #LGBTQ

        Synopsis   Your husband tells you he’s transsexual. Do you drop him like a hot rock? Could it possibly work out? Read this book! Includes: the transsexual process, talking to others, assessing your relationship, finding therapists, maintaining your marriage, jealousy, helping your children adjust, and more. Also, for the woman who […]

Recipe from Asada The Art of Mexican-Style Grilling by Bricia Lopez #cookbook #AbramsDinnerParty

    Oaxaca authors Bricia Lopez and Javier Cabral are back with the first major cookbook about how to create asada—Mexican-style grilled meat—at home In millions of backyards across Southern California, an asada means a gathering of family, friends, great music, cold drinks, good times, and community—all centered around the primal allure of juicy, smoky […]