Category: Review

Review – The Curse of the Flores Women by Angelica Lopes, Translated by Zoe Perry

  Synopsis Eighteen-year-old Alice Ribeiro is constantly fighting―against the status quo, female oppression in Brazil, and even her own mother. But when a family veil is passed down to her, and she discovers it hides a secret coded tale of domestic violence that happened 100 years before, she is compelled to uncover the hidden history […]

Review – A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston

  Synopsis A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction… literally. Eileen Merriweather loves to get lost in a good happily-ever-after. The fictional kind, anyway. Because at least imaginary men don’t leave you at the altar. She feels safe in a book. At home. Which might be why she’s so […]

Review & #Giveaway – A Chocolate is Announced by Amber Royer

  A Chocolate is Announced Bean to Bar Mystery, #7 by Amber Royer   Cozy Mystery / Culinary Mystery / Women Sleuths Publisher: Golden Tip Press Date of Publication: June 25, 2024 Number of Pages: 277 pages   Scroll down for Giveaway!   Synopsis Felicity Koerber is finally getting her life together.  She has a […]

Review – The Calculation of You and Me by Serena Kaylor

  Synopsis A calculus nerd enlists her surly classmate’s help to win back her ex-boyfriend, but when sparks start to fly, she realizes there’s no algorithm for falling in love. Marlowe Thompson understands a lot of things. She understands that calculus isn’t overwhelmingly beautiful to everyone, and that it typically kills the mood when you […]

Review – Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell

  Synopsis Recently ghosted and sick of watching her friends fade into the suburbs, thirty-something Hannah finds community in a true-crime forum that’s on a mission to solve the murders of four women in Atlanta. After William, a handsome lawyer, is arrested for the killings, Hannah begins writing him letters. It’s the perfect outlet for […]

Review & Excerpt – Sunset Ledge by Darlene Deluca

  Synopsis Can a seasoned traveler from the city thaw the numb heart of a reclusive Texas widower? Jack Armstrong lives like a recluse on his Texas ranch. In the difficult years after his wife’s death, he goes through the motions of life and wants to be left alone. Caroline Tate, a widowed ecology professor, […]

Review & Excerpt – All Our Tomorrows by Catherine Bybee

  Synopsis When Chase Stone’s estranged father dies, leaving his multibillion-dollar business to his children, no one is more surprised than he. Growing up outside of the high-stakes world filled with human vultures, Chase and his sister, Alex, are less than enthusiastic about stepping into their father’s shoes. That is until they learn of a […]

Review – Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell

  Synopsis Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider, taunted by her tight-knit classmates for growing up far away. So, when a local girl includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet giveaway to honor her missing sister, Mara thinks she’ll finally make some friends. Instead, a girl […]

Review – A Collection of Lies by Connie Berry

  Synopsis As Kate Hamilton and her new husband, DI Tom Mallory, honeymoon in Devon, a local history museum asks them to trace the provenance of a bloodstained dress said to belong to a Victorian lacemaker accused of murder. If genuine, the dress and its puzzling connections to a nineteenth-century Romani family who camped on […]

Review & #Giveaway – This Time Around by Kimberly Packard

  THIS TIME AROUND by Kimberly Packard   Time Travel Romance / Contemporary Women’s Fiction / Romantic Comedy Publisher: Abalos Publishing Date of Publication: June 11, 2024 Number of Pages: 286 pages   Scroll down for Giveaway!   Synopsis Most of us would jump at a chance for a do-over of our teenage years…but what […]