Category: 5 paws

Review – The Garden of Changing Blooms by Madison McAuley

    Synopsis   He doesn’t want to be her enemy. She doesn’t want to be his friend. But when their paths keep crossing, can a change of heart lead to a chance at love? In the Kingdom of Kalopsia, Dahlia has grown tired of the cloying perfumes and swirling silks of ballrooms. Her reality […]

Review – All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore

      Synopsis   The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly—and dangerously—collide in this debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a divided city. Philadelphia, 1837. After Charlotte escaped from the crumbling White Oaks plantation down South, she’d expected freedom to feel different from her former life as […]

Review & #Giveaway – Amethyst, The Shallows by Kellye Abernathy

      Amethyst, The Shallows   by   Kellye Abernathy   YA / Magical Realism / Coming of Age Publisher: Atmosphere Press Page Count: 296 pages Publication Date: February 6, 2024 Scroll down for a giveaway!         “This is a night for being brave.” In the aftermath of a devastating sickness […]

Review & Excerpt – The Monstrous Misses Mai by Van Hoang

    Synopsis   A determined young woman in 1950s Los Angeles walks a darker city than she ever imagined in a spellbinding novel about the power to make dreams come true―whatever the sacrifice. Los Angeles brims with opportunity in 1959―though not for aspiring fashion designer Cordelia Mai Yin, the first-generation child of Vietnamese immigrants, […]

Review – How To Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin

    Synopsis For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club , an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate… Now it’s up to her […]

Review – The Taekwonderoos: Rescue at Rattling Ridge by Michael Panzner

    Synopsis   Come Join the Adventure! Hop into an action-packed adventure with George, Brianna and Jackson, kangaroo friends who are masters of taekwondo. When they spot a frightened joey trapped at the top of treacherous Rattling Ridge, the three Taekwonderoos spring into action, using their kicking, jumping and spinning skills to navigate cliffs, […]

Review & #Giveaway – To Rescue a Witch by Lisa A. Traugott

      TO RESCUE A WITCH   by   Lisa A. Traugott     Historical Fiction / Action & Adventure / Witch Trials Page Count: 398 pages Publication Date: March 1, 2024         It’s 1739. An abused girl accused of witchcraft must be defended by a man married to an actual […]

Review – Captive by Cally Jackson

    Synopsis   How do you escape a man who believes he owns you? Sophie Steele’s life is ruled by fear. Her husband, Ben Steele, tracks her phone, her bank accounts, her every move. His position as part-owner of a successful surveillance and investigations company gives full rein to his controlling instincts. When Ben […]

Review & #Giveaway – The Desk from Hoboken by ML Condike

      THE DESK FROM HOBOKEN   A Genealogy Mystery, #1   by   ML Condike     Mystery / Women Sleuths / Forensic Genealogy Publisher: Harbor Lane Books, LLC Date of Publication: March 5, 2024 Number of Pages: 446 pages     Scroll down for Giveaway!         After a personal […]

Review – Holmes, Moriarty, and the Monkeys by WM Gunn

    Synopsis   The old 19th-century Victorian house at 221 Baker Street is the home of the Holmes and Moriarty Society, where amateur sleuths from different walks of life would meet to solve crimes. On the black granite hearth in front of the mansion’s massive fireplace are three stone statues of monkeys – Mizaru […]