Category: Review

Review – James Rhyder and the Cave of Dreams by David S. Brooks

      Synosis   Twelve-year-old James Rhyder is being hunted by people from a hidden world he never knew existed. Unlike most people his age, James doesn’t dream at night of becoming a hero. Rather, his dreams are filled with shadowy figures and cryptic warnings about the end of the world. As these strange […]

Review & #Giveaway – The Wedding by Kelly Smith

          Synopsis   Four friends, one city. Grace, Piper, Sydney and Rachel navigate life, careers, and love in Boston. Each woman is newly single and looking for a fresh start. As their work lives start to look up, they each meet a new man who may be “the one”—or may not. […]

Review – All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore

      Synopsis   The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly—and dangerously—collide in this debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a divided city. Philadelphia, 1837. After Charlotte escaped from the crumbling White Oaks plantation down South, she’d expected freedom to feel different from her former life as […]

Review & #Giveaway – Amethyst, The Shallows by Kellye Abernathy

      Amethyst, The Shallows   by   Kellye Abernathy   YA / Magical Realism / Coming of Age Publisher: Atmosphere Press Page Count: 296 pages Publication Date: February 6, 2024 Scroll down for a giveaway!         “This is a night for being brave.” In the aftermath of a devastating sickness […]

Review – The Lies Among Us by Sarah Beth Durst

    Synopsis   From the award-winning author of The Shelterlings and The Lake House comes a haunting novel about sisterhood and grief, where difficult truths must contend with the corrosive power of unchecked lies. After her mother dies, Hannah doesn’t know how to exist without her. Literally. In fact, Hannah’s not even certain that […]

Review & Excerpt – The Monstrous Misses Mai by Van Hoang

    Synopsis   A determined young woman in 1950s Los Angeles walks a darker city than she ever imagined in a spellbinding novel about the power to make dreams come true―whatever the sacrifice. Los Angeles brims with opportunity in 1959―though not for aspiring fashion designer Cordelia Mai Yin, the first-generation child of Vietnamese immigrants, […]

Review – How To Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin

    Synopsis For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club , an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate… Now it’s up to her […]

Review – The Taekwonderoos: Rescue at Rattling Ridge by Michael Panzner

    Synopsis   Come Join the Adventure! Hop into an action-packed adventure with George, Brianna and Jackson, kangaroo friends who are masters of taekwondo. When they spot a frightened joey trapped at the top of treacherous Rattling Ridge, the three Taekwonderoos spring into action, using their kicking, jumping and spinning skills to navigate cliffs, […]

Review & #Giveaway – To Rescue a Witch by Lisa A. Traugott

      TO RESCUE A WITCH   by   Lisa A. Traugott     Historical Fiction / Action & Adventure / Witch Trials Page Count: 398 pages Publication Date: March 1, 2024         It’s 1739. An abused girl accused of witchcraft must be defended by a man married to an actual […]

Review – Captive by Cally Jackson

    Synopsis   How do you escape a man who believes he owns you? Sophie Steele’s life is ruled by fear. Her husband, Ben Steele, tracks her phone, her bank accounts, her every move. His position as part-owner of a successful surveillance and investigations company gives full rein to his controlling instincts. When Ben […]