Category: 4 paws

Review – Hold On For Dear Life by Annelise Osborne

  Synopsis Hold On for Dear Life follows three MIT graduates who build a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform, raise thirty million dollars in a single night, and are forced to confront what they were truly building — through a market crash, a four-million-dollar secret trade, and a kidnapping. At its core, it’s a literary fiction […]

Review & Excerpt – Dina Gets Lucky by Uzma Jalaluddin

  Synopsis At a sumptuous family wedding, two former friends rediscover their own love story and the lies that tore them apart in a chaotic and swoony second-chance romance by the author of Yours for the Season. Toronto attorney Dina Haq is looking forward to her influencer sister’s lavish South Asian wedding. She wouldn’t dream […]

Review – Worse Than Any Bullet by Felicia Watson

  Synopsis Everyone thinks their mother is murder but for mafia-family renegade Lucia Scafetti, that’s the literal truth. When she laid her hitman father to rest, PI Lucia Scafetti thought she’d finally escaped her family’s criminal clutches. Ten years later, her estranged mom blows into Philly for a short visit and within days a friend’s […]

Review & Excerpt – The Plus-One List by Amy Ewing

  Synopsis Eloise, who struggles with anxiety, strongly prefers the company of her senior rescue dogs to people. But when her best friend announces she’s getting married in Mexico City and every guest must have a date, the pressure is on. Using an exclusive “plus-one list,” Eloise winds up with Agustín, a charming journalist and […]

Review – The Salt Widow by Teresa Crowe

  Synopsis Truth is a tide. You can’t keep it from coming in. When Janessa “Nessa” Douglas inherits her grandmother’s house in Mystic Beach on the Chesapeake Bay, she intends to sell it and never look back. The locals still whisper about her grandmother, Elspeth, who wrote strange fairy tales about women who kept dangerous […]

Review – The Brief and True Report of Temperance Flowerdew by Denise Heinze

  Synopsis Determined to set the historical record straight, and clear her conscience, Temperance Flowerdew-the wife of Virginia’s first two governors-puts quill to paper, recounting the hardships that nearly brought the Jamestown colony to its knees, and the extraordinary sacrifice of her servant girl, Lily. When she steps aboard the Falcon in 1609, Temperance Flowerdew […]

Review & Giveaway – And the Walls Came Tumbling Down by WM Gunn

  And The Walls Came Tumbling Down By W.M. Gunn   Alternative History / Historical Fiction / Family Saga Publisher: Atmosphere Press Publication Date: September 15, 2026   Synopsis And the Walls Came Tumbling Down reimagines the twentieth century as it might have unfolded if fate had shifted—and mercy had not. Two families, one American […]

Review & Giveaway – FlimFlam Fairy by Elizabeth Pantley

    Synopsis A fun cozy mystery adventure with an enchanted bookstore and a clever talking cat! Best friends Willa and Lucy buy an enchanted bookstore that features charmed books. All are cozy mysteries! They settle into their charming new home, and fall in love with their wonderful bookstore, delighted that it’s decorated with climbing […]

Review – The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass by Leslye Penelope

  Synopsis For five years, Zahara Douglass has been haunted by her sister’s impossible disappearance. Now, in December 1999, with the world on the brink of chaos, Zahara sets out to find her sister no matter the cost in this twisty and compelling modern fantasy from Leslye Penelope. In April 1994, Zahara watched her twin […]

Review – Appetite by P. Paramita

  Synopsis A propulsive, heartfelt, and utterly original debut about a young chef trying to find her way in a world that’s not built for her to succeed—and the pro wrestler she idolizes who derails everything Zarina, a prep cook at a fancy New Haven restaurant, is underpaid, overworked, and might as well be invisible. […]