Category: Review

Review & Giveaway – Bald-Faced Liar by Victoria Helen Stone

  Synopsis Living a lie becomes a matter of life and death for a woman hiding from her past in a novel of mounting psychological suspense by the bestselling author of Jane Doe and The Hook. Traveling nurse Elizabeth May has a promising new home in Santa Cruz. And another new identity. It’s a pattern […]

Review & Giveaway – Before Dorothy by Hazel Gaynor

  Synopsis Long before Dorothy visits Oz, her aunt, Emily Gale, sets off on her own grand adventure, leaving gritty Chicago behind for Kansas and a life that will utterly change her, in this transporting novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. Chicago, 1924: Emily and her new husband, Henry, yearn to leave the bustle […]

Review – The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

  Synopsis A dazzling thriller in which a struggling ghostwriter is hired to finish her legendary father’s last book – a story that will finally force him to tell the truth about the murders that have haunted their family for years. Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she […]

Review – Confessions of a Grammar Queen by Eliza Knight

  Synopsis There are no female publishing CEOs in 1960s New York. And that is exactly what savvy, ambitious Bernadette Swift plans to change. Bernadette Swift, a young copyeditor at Lenox & Park Publishing, is determined to become the first female CEO in the publishing industry. But first, she needs to take the next step […]

Review – The Rise of The Mad March by Robert Espenscheid Jr

    THE RISE OF THE MAD MARCH By ROBERT ESPENSCHEID JR.   New Adult / Coming of Age / Friendship Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing Pages: 374 Publication Date: May 9, 2025     Synopsis This one is for all the rock bands who never headlined the big stage, who never needed protection getting to […]

Review – He’s To Die For by Erin Dunn

  Synopsis At 29, Detective Rav Trivedi is the youngest member of the NYPD’s homicide squad, and his future looks bright. He may be a bit of an outsider in the department—an ivy-league educated gay Brit with a weakness for designer suits—but his meteoric rise and solve rate prove he belongs. So when his CO […]

Review & Giveaway – Family & Other Calamities by Leslie Gray Streeter

  Synopsis A successful journalist returns to her hometown just as her biggest mistake becomes headline news in this vibrant, funny, and heartfelt novel about facing the past, and its secrets, head-on. Entertainment journalist Dawn Roberts has a lot to work through: a widow’s grief, betrayals of family and friends, and scandals that almost tanked […]

Review – Broome Enigma by Meryl Brown Tobin

  Synopsis On a working holiday in Australia’s cosmopolitan Outback town of Broome in 1986, Jodie, a young book designer and artist, is open to romance and adventure. At the holiday village where she is staying, she meets Joe, a young man who works there. Despite the strong attraction between them, the many unknowns about […]

Review & Giveaway – The Calendar by WM Gunn

    THE CALENDAR By WM Gunn   Science Fiction Pages: 302 Publication Date: April 3, 2025     Synopsis Long-range monitors detect a massive rock plunging through space on a path toward Earth. Will it miss our planet, deliver a glancing blow, or destroy Mankind? And how will people react to an uncertain future? […]

Review – The Language of Birds by K. A. Merson

  Synopsis A brilliant, eccentric teenager must solve a series of puzzles left behind by her dead father in this debut that features codes, riddles, and a plot that ingeniously mixes fact and fiction. When seventeen-year-old Arizona’s mother goes missing on a family trip, Arizona tells herself not to worry. Until she finds her family’s […]