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 […]
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Review – The Lies Among Us by Sarah Beth Durst
April 4, 2024
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
March 31, 2024
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
March 28, 2024
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 […]
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
March 25, 2024
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
March 23, 2024
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 […]
Review & #Giveaway – The Desk from Hoboken by ML Condike
March 21, 2024
THE DESK FROM HOBOKEN A Genealogy Mystery, #1 by ML Condike Mystery / Women Sleuths / Forensic Genealogy Publisher: Harbor Lane Books, LLC Date of Publication: March 5, 2024 Number of Pages: 446 pages Scroll down for Giveaway! After a personal […]
Review – In A Not So Perfect World by Neely Tubati Alexander
March 19, 2024
Synopsis The author of Love Buzz follows her acclaimed first novel with a delightful Caribbean-set romp about an ambitious designer of apocalyptic video games with a strategy for (almost) everything who discovers what happens when her best-laid plans go off course . . . Sloane Cooper is up for her dream job as a […]
Review – Holmes, Moriarty, and the Monkeys by WM Gunn
March 17, 2024
Synopsis The old 19th-century Victorian house at 221 Baker Street is the home of the Holmes and Moriarty Society, where amateur sleuths from different walks of life would meet to solve crimes. On the black granite hearth in front of the mansion’s massive fireplace are three stone statues of monkeys – Mizaru […]