Category: Review

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, […]

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 […]