Category: 4 paws

Review – Conversations with the Dead by Jim Bates #YA #magicalrealism

    Synopsis   Jasmine “Jazzy” Jaspers is a ten-year-old albino who lives with his mother, an obese telephone sex worker. When his mother dies, Jazzy is sent to live with his grandparents on their farm in southwestern Minnesota. At his mother’s funeral, he meets and befriends his first dead person, and it changes his […]

Review – A Storm of Infinite Beauty by Julianne MacLean #newrelease #fiction

    Synopsis   From the bestselling author of Beyond the Moonlit Sea comes an atmospheric tale of how one woman’s search for the truth uncovers long-hidden secrets and rocks the very foundation of her world. Scarlett Fontaine is a true Hollywood legend―a singer, actress, and beloved fashion icon. But Scarlett dies tragically at just thirty-six years […]

Review – Ghostly Passage by R.K. O’Brien @writerobrien #mystery #paranormal

    Synopsis   GHOSTLY PASSAGE is the riveting paranormal mystery about a depot in the Underground Railroad, unexplained noises in a library with a room that hasn’t been used in over 150 years, book 2 in the JOANNA DAVIS MYSTERY series. GHOSTLY PASSAGE is the story of ghosts in a city’s library. The librarian […]

Review – Dark Corners by Megan Goldin @megangoldin #psychological #thriller #newrelease

    Synopsis   Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators have long suspected him in the murders of six women. As his freedom approaches, Bailey gets a surprise visit from Maddison Logan, a hot, young influencer with a huge social media following. Hours later, Maddison disappears, […]

Review – Wolfsong by Kathryn Silver-Hajo #shortstories

      Synopsis   Through a series of flash narratives, Kathryn Silver-Hajo’s powerful debut story collection, Wolfsong, draws us irresistibly into the lives of a constellation of female characters. The girls and women of Wolfsong are by turns fierce, curious, playful, vulnerable, reflective and wise. Taken together, the stories form a compelling arc from […]

Review – Desert Rose by J. Arene Culiner #fiction #smalltown #romance #trilogy

    Synopsis   Secrets are the best protection against love Rose Badger is the local flirt, and if the other inhabitants of backwoods Blake’s Folly, Nevada, don’t approve, she couldn’t care less. With a disastrous marriage and a dead-end career far behind her, settling down is the last thing she intends to do. Newcomer […]

Review – The Five Watches by John York #timetravel #newrelease #comingsoon #puyb

          Synopsis   What might happen if a handful of people living in different eras became entangled in time, some intentionally and some accidentally? The nineteenth-century scientist, Dr. Wilhelm Gussen, is passionate about improving the welfare of mankind, and so he begins a journey through time in a quest to learn […]