Category: Review

Review – Flat Water by Jeremy Broyles

  Synopsis On a road trip to Flat Water, the home he fled years before, Monty Marinnis must confront the complex and painful loss that drove him away and now demands his return: family. Called back to California for his sister’s wedding, Monty’s journey from the Midwest to the California Coast is also a journey […]

Review – Dad Camp by Evan S. Porter

  Synopsis A heartwarming novel about a loving dad who drags his eleven-year-old daughter to “father-daughter week” at a remote summer camp—their last chance to bond before he loses her to teenage girlhood entirely. After his daughter, Avery, was born, John gave it all up—hobbies, friends, a dream job—to be something a super dad. Since […]

Review – Eat Dessert First by Elise Thomas

  Synopsis Fast, easy, delicious deals with desserts at the front. In 2020, when the world was hit with a pandemic, Elise Thomas used her own small kitchen oven to begin baking her signature gourmet cookies. Selling them first out of her garage, her business quickly skyrocketed into a successful chain of bakeries—Cookie Co.—and earned […]

Review – The Last Note of Warning by Katharine Schellman

  Synopsis The Last Note of Warning is the third in the luscious, mysterious, and queer Nightingale mystery series by Katharine Schellman, set in 1920s New York. Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City, but Vivian Kelly has finally found some small measure of both stability and freedom. […]

Review – Match Me If You Can by Swati Hegde

  Synopsis A young magazine writer in Mumbai must prove her matchmaking skills—and contend with growing feelings for her close family friend—in this debut desi romance. Confident fashionista Jia Deshpande spends her days writing cliché-ridden listicles for Mimosa, Mumbai’s top women’s magazine. When she can, Jia dishes about the messy truth of real love on […]

Review & #Giveaway – Bound in Silence by Christina Stephens

    BOUND IN SILENCE: by Christena Stephens   True Crime / Texas History / Nonfiction Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing Page Count: 286 pages Publication Date: February 26, 2024   Scroll down for a giveaway!   Synopsis On a nearly moonless night in October 1943, a single gunshot rang out in Littlefield, Texas. A prominent […]

Review – If Something Happens To Me by Alex Finlay

  Synopsis For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali’s piercing scream as she is taken. With no trace of Ali or the car, a cloud of suspicion hangs over […]

Review – Goyhood by Reuven Fenton

  Synopsis Thirty years after leaving Georgia, Mayer Belkin, a Talmud scholar married into a prestigious Brooklyn rabbinical family, faces a shocking revelation after his mother’s death: he and his twin brother aren’t actually Jewish. Traumatized, Mayer decides to convert, facing a week-long wait for the earliest appointment. In the interim, the twins embark on […]

Review – Eye of the Beholder by Jim Bates

  Synopsis When Jena’s new boyfriend Herm announces that he is traveling the Northshore of Lake Superior to meet Commander Donner, she is skeptical. After all, Herm is convinced that he is an alien from the planet Xylan who has been sent to Earth to search for rare minerals. As far as Jena is concerned, […]