Category: Review

Review – All About Charming Alice by J. Arene Culiner #fiction #smalltown #romance

    Synopsis   Trust in love and solutions will appear. Alice Treemont has no intention of falling in love. Living in Blake’s Folly, a semi-ghost town, she cooks vegetarian meals, rescues unwanted dogs, and protects the most unloved creatures on earth: snakes. What man would share those interests? Jace Constant is in Nevada, doing […]

Review – Hard Dough Homicide by Olivia Matthews @BooksbyPatricia #cozy #mystery

      Synopsis   Someone in Brooklyn’s Little Caribbean neighborhood has an appetite for murder in Olivia Matthews’ Hard Dough Homicide. Spice Isle Bakery owner Lyndsay Murray is always looking for new ways to grow her family’s business. But she already regrets agreeing to host the retirement dinner for local high school principal Emily Smith. […]

Review – One Night by Georgina Cross #suspense #thriller #psychological

    Synopsis   One night. That’s all the time a family has to decide what to do with the man they believe murdered their daughter: Do they forgive him, or take justice into their own hands? An electrifying novel by the author of Nanny Needed. . . The anonymous letters arrive in the mail, one […]

Review – The Official Fablehaven Cookbook by Brandon Mull & Cherie Mull @ShadowMountn #fantasy #ya #magic #middlegrade #cookbook

    Includes an original, never-before-published story about the Fablehaven woodland brownies by #1 New York Times best-selling author Brandon Mull The Fablehaven house brownies are known for coming into the kitchen at night and baking delightful treats as a surprise for caretakers and their guests. Now, Fablehaven fans can enjoy nearly fifty wondrous recipes inspired by […]

Review – The Fountain by John A. Heldt @johnheldt #timetravel #historical #5paws

      Synopsis   Portland, Oregon. In May 2022, the Carpenters are a sad lot. Bill, 81, has just buried his beloved wife. Paul, 75, has terminal lung cancer. Annie, 72, is a paraplegic with broken dreams. Childless and directionless, the siblings face an uncertain future in their childhood home. Then Bill, a retired […]

Review – Ghosted by Amanda Quain @QUAINIAC #newrelease #YA #romance #retelling

      Synopsis   Never Have I Ever meets The X-Files in Amanda Quain’s Ghosted, a gender-bent contemporary retelling of the Jane Austen classic, Northanger Abbey. Hattie Tilney isn’t a believer. Yes, she’s a senior at America’s most (allegedly) haunted high school, Northanger Abbey. But ever since her paranormal-loving dad passed away, she’s hung up her Ghostbusters suit, put […]

Review & #Giveaway – Murder for Liar by Verlin Darrow #GuestPost #mystery

        Synopsis   Award-winning novelist Verlin Darrow delivers a standout thrill ride in his newest mystery, Murder for Liar, an engaging, enlightening, and entertaining novel of psychological suspense. About Murder for Liar: Private investigator-turned-psychotherapist Tom Dashiel doesn’t know it yet, but he’s hurtling towards discovering where his threshold lies—the point of no […]

Review – Homicide Hamlet by Peyton Pierson #cozy #mystery #newseries

    Synopsis   A picturesque college town, a jaded ex-detective, and a deadly fraternity… After a rough breakup, Amy Carson is eager to dive into the next chapter of her life as an English graduate student at the charmingly rustic Fallston State University. More than that, she’s excited to begin her career in academia as the […]

Review – The Shore of Sun’s Afterglow by Madison McCauley #fantasy #fiction #newrelease

    Synopsis   A long-kept secret. A seaside kingdom. A life-changing revelation.   No stranger to tragedy, Amira seeks joy in the little things—books, nature, her friends, and the memories of her late mother. When she gets the opportunity to leave her sleepy village and visit the kingdom’s capital of Kalopsia, her excitement knows […]