Category: Review

Review – The Romance Rewind by Sarah Everett

  Synopsis In this swoony and charming YA romcom with a twist, a 17-year-old goes back in time to relive her relationship and see where it went wrong. Zadie expected her anniversary dinner with her boyfriend to end with a dreamy prom-posal. Not a breakup and a car crash! When she wakes up in the […]

Review & Giveaway – Feels Like the First Time by Kimberly Packard

  Feels Like the First Time By Kimberly Packard   Romance / Time-Slip / RomCom Publisher: Abalos Publishing Publication Date: June 16, 2026   Synopsis Blink and your life’s halfway over. What if that happens literally? College party girl Emily Murray bounces through majors and boys until an ill-advised art major leads her to a […]

Review & Excerpt – Be Well by Sarah Flocken

  Synopsis Summer 2009: Brand-new college graduate Ann Ward has sent out nearly three hundred job applications, but nobody will employ her. The last thing she wants to do is leave Los Angeles, return to her desert hometown, and live in the shadow of her fame-hungry televangelist father–and it’s starting to look like that’s her […]

Review & Excerpt – Love on the Shelf by Sheila Roberts

    Synopsis The battle lines are drawn—between a romance-loving bookseller and the shock jock determined to tear happily-ever-afters apart. Alice Willoughby and her mom run HEA Books, a cozy shop devoted to love stories and the people who crave them. Alice is great at matching customers with their perfect happily-ever-after…she just can’t seem to […]

Review & Excerpt – Lead Me Home by Catherine Bybee

  Synopsis When spreadsheets are safer than people, falling in love becomes the ultimate risk in this powerful novel of trauma, healing, and unexpected courage from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee. Luna Canning trusts numbers more than people—and for good reason. As a forensic accountant who specializes in exposing fraud, […]

Review – Twenty Something Else by Stephanie Mack

  Synopsis On the eve of her fortieth birthday, a woman wakes up from a pickleball accident with the unexpected chance to relive her twenties in this sparkling novel from a fresh, new voice. Sutton Layne is almost-forty and fabulous, with a happy marriage, three beautiful children, and a successful interior design business. But there’s […]

Review & Giveaway – On the Bayou by Sean Bridges

  On the Bayou By Sean Bridges   Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Publication Date: 25 May 2026     Synopsis A stake-out at a trafficker way-station ends with Special Agent Jennifer Nash placed on forced leave. Until a government insider offers her a chance at redemption. All she has to do […]

Review & Giveaway – Up From Hell by Joan Moran

  UP FROM HELL Echoes of the Past: Crimes in Central Texas, Book 1 By Joan Moran   Crime Thriller Publisher: Next Chapter Publication Date: April 7, 2026     Synopsis Growing up in Las Vegas, Neil Dixon’s future looked bleak. The son of a drug-addicted mother, he didn’t have a lot of options until […]

Review – A Thousand Cuts by Gregory Poirier

  Synopsis Meet Max Starkey—disgraced CIA operative turned underworld fixer—whose past loves, rivals, and indiscretions close in on him in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Seven years after a CIA mission in Laos went sideways, Max lives in the gray spaces between criminals and justice, recovering stolen goods for villains who don’t ask questions. But […]

Review & Giveaway – Dawn Before Darkness by Liz Lazarus

  Synopsis Dawn Smith, a veterinary tech living in rural South Carolina, catches her boyfriend in a series of lies and abruptly ends the relationship. Rather than accepting the break-up, he begins to stalk and harass her, forcing Dawn to seek a restraining order. Undeterred, he launches a deeply personal attack—suing for guardianship and conservatorship […]