Category: Review

Review – The Quince Project by Jessica Parra

  Synopsis Castillo Torres, Student Body Association event chair and serial planner could use a fairy godmother. After a disastrous mishap at her sister’s quinceañera, all of Cas’s plans are crumbling. So when a local lifestyle-guru-slash-party-planner opens up applications for the internship of her dreams, Cas sees it as the perfect opportunity to learn every […]

Guest Review & #Giveaway – The Not Quite Enlightened Sleuth by Verlin Darrow

    Synopsis A Buddhist nun returns to her hometown and solves multiple murders while enduring her dysfunctional family. Ivy Lutz leaves her life as a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka and returns home to northern California when her elderly mother suffers a stroke. Her sheltered life is blasted apart by a series of murders, […]

Review – What Was Never There by Elizabeth Maria Naranjo

  Synopsis A mother and daughter lost in the woods must overcome their worst fears to find their way back. A father going through a divorce witnesses a seemingly impossible motorcycle accident, which forces him to question the truth of his own perceptions. A little boy with a terrible secret routinely steals away at night […]

Guest Review & Excerpt – Kent and Katcha by Larry and Rosemary Mild

    Synopsis Larry and Rosemary breach deep cover to bring you a novel of high intrigue drawn from Larry’s former association with secret operatives and their spook agencies. The year is 1992. The Soviet Union has collapsed, but danger persists. Young Kent Brukner, a freshly trained American spy, arrives in Moscow for a high-risk […]

Review & Excerpt – The House that Horror Built by Christina Henry

  Synopsis A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifying secrets in the captivating new horror novel from the national bestselling author of Good Girls Don’t Die and Horseman. Harry Adams has always loved horror movies, so it’s not totally a coincidence that she took the job […]

Review – A Song of Silence by Steve N. Lee

  Synopsis War thrust them together. Love will tear them apart. Inspired by a true story… When the Nazis invade his sleepy Polish town, Mirek swears to keep everyone in his orphanage safe at all costs. Yet, despite his struggles and sacrifices, the war drags him and his children deeper and deeper into its violent nightmare. […]

Review – Forgotten by A. Gural

    Synopsis Edwardian England Gwendolyn Deering was sent away to St Ursula’s School for Young Ladies six years ago, and she has no idea why. Estranged from her own family, she forms a new one with the troubled teens at her school, and tries to be at least a tiny bit happy. Except that […]

Review & #Giveaway – The Heaven Spot by Mary Frances Hill

    Synopsis The Heaven Spot is a modern-day mystery set in Palm Beach, Florida, that depicts opioid addict Maggie Robert’s desperate attempt to come to terms with her estranged daughter, Lilly’s, murder. When divorcée Maggie Roberts stumbles into her Virginia bookstore for the last time to close up shop, she expects the morning to be […]

Review & Excerpt – The Alone Time by Ellie Marr

    Synopsis   For two sisters, confronting the past could come at a terrible price in a riveting novel about a family tragedy―and family secrets―perfect for fans of Showtime’s Yellowjackets.   Fiona and Violet Seng were just children when their family’s Cessna crash-landed in the Washington wilderness, claiming the lives of their parents. For […]

Review – Love You, Mean It by Jilly Gagnon

    Synopsis   Ellie Greco wishes she weren’t stuck in Milborough. For a few brief, shining years, she escaped her hometown to pursue her dream career—designing beautiful, elaborate costumes for theater—until her father’s death five years ago called her home to run the family’s decades-old deli. Yes, she loves the place, but she’d always […]