Category: Review

Review – Pintsized Pioneers by Preston Lewis and Harriet Kocher Lewis

    PINTSIZED PIONEERS: Taming the Frontier, One Chore at a Time By Preston Lewis & Harriet Kocher Lewis Young Adult / Nonfiction / History Publisher: Bariso Press Pages: 184 Publication Date: September 24, 2024   Synopsis Children tread lightly through the pages of Old West history. Pintsized Pioneers: Taming the Frontier, One Chore at […]

Review & Giveaway – Waterborne by J. Luke Bennecke

    Synopsis What if the Darkest Minds on Earth Discovered How to Subdue Future Generations? When Californians start getting sick with flu-like symptoms, traumatized engineer Jake Bendel is once again forced to work with the FBI to discover the cause. With his new desalination plants behind schedule and searing pressure from the California Governor, […]

New Release & Review – The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel

  Synopsis A Hitchcock fanatic with an agenda invites old friends for a weekend stay at his secluded themed hotel in this fiendishly clever, suspenseful new novel. Alfred Smettle is not your average Hitchcock fan. He is the founder, owner, and manager of The Hitchcock Hotel, a sprawling Victorian house in the White Mountains dedicated […]

New Release & Review – Casket Case by Lauren Evans

  Synopsis In this warm-hearted debut rom-com, a young woman returns home to run her family’s casket business and falls in love with a seemingly perfect stranger. But there’s just one problem . . . he works for Death. Nora thought she was finished with Rabbittown, Alabama, for good. But an unexpected tragedy turned her […]

Review – The Debt Collector by Steven Max Russo

  Synopsis Meet a debt collector who’s tough as nails. Well, manicured nails. Abigail Barnes is young, pretty, and petite. But don’t let her small stature or good looks fool you. She’s a collector for bookies, loan sharks, and other people who want to get paid what they’re owed. Running from trouble in Baltimore, Abby […]

Review – Deep Fried by Mark Doyon

  Synopsis Americanized millennial Arjun Chatterjee is a food-truck chef working in a parking lot outside the nation’s capital. He dreams up multiethnic recipes and pursues a young woman toiling in a Kafkaesque office nearby. Building a clientele, he faces life with a sly optimism. One day he idly asks the sky: “Why am I […]

New Release & Review – All Signs Point to Malibu by Jennifer Snow

  Synopsis From USA TODAY bestselling author Jennifer Snow comes a hilarious rom-com with a speculative twist that asks: Why put off until tomorrow the wedding you can sabotage today? Hailey Harris can’t stop messing with fate. A successful life coach, Hailey uses her ability to glimpse the future to guide her clients down the […]

Guest Review & Giveaway – What They Said About Luisa by Erika Rummel

    Synopsis An enchanting telling of the complex and fascinating life of real-life Luisa Abrego of Seville, who forges a new life after freedom from slavery in colonial Mexico and gets caught in the far-reaching Spanish Inquisition. Luisa Abrego, a slave in Seville, is set free upon her master’s death and marries a white […]

Review & #Giveaway – French Quarter Fright Night by Ellen Byron

    French Quarter Fright Night (Vintage Cookbook) Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series Setting – the Garden District of New Orleans Publisher ‏ : ‎ Severn House (September 3, 2024) Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages Synopsis The third in the fabulous cozy mystery series with a vintage flair from USA Today bestselling and Agatha […]

Review – Awake For Ever In A Sweet Unrest by Charles Rosenthal

  Synopsis Deep within the hidden library of Los Angeles’ iconic poetry venue, Beyond Baroque, all modern electronics mysteriously fail. There, 19-year-old Beatriz encounters Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, who promises a magical adventure back to 19th-century Europe. There, Beatriz meets literary legends John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron, experiencing the romantic […]