Reading
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Cover Reveal: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord by Celeste Connally
You had me at Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie! This book sounds like an absolute DELIGHT and I couldn’t be more excited to share a bit about this books today as well as reveal the cover! If you are a fan of historical fiction you will definitely want this one one your radar! Let’s also take a minute to appreciate how lovely this cover is too. This cover has eye catching details and colors that will surely make you take notice of it and with this exciting and tantalizing summary, you will surely not want to miss it. Take a look at all the details below and an option for a…
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Review: The Woman with the Cure by Lynn Cullen
Author Lynn Cullen has penned a number of historical fiction novels, but I think the one she is best known for is Mrs Poe. I love Poe so naturally I wanted to read Mrs Poe when it came out. I loved it and was so excited to see what other books Cullen put out. Since I read that book, she had come out with a number of other novels, but I think that Mrs Poe remains her most well known book. I love how well researched Cullen’s novels are and she often takes the untold, behind the scenes stories of unknown figures in famous people’s lives and brings them out…
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Special Feature/Excerpt: The Maid of Ballymacool by Jennifer Deibel
Who doesn’t love a historical fiction, Cinderella retelling set on the Emerald Isle?! I haven’t been reading a ton of historical fiction lately which makes me sad, but this book caught my eyer as an option! I love Cinderella and It thought the plot sounded really interesting as well as having a hint of romance which made me even more excited to check this one out. Plus the Emerald Isle? YES PLEASE! I need some escapism during these long cold winter months even if it’s equally as rainy and dreary there, I love dreaming about my next escape destination. While I couldn’t fit this one on my review schedule for…
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Cover Reveal: The Orchid Hour by Nancy Bilyeau
The Orchid Hour by Nancy Bilyeau Publication Date: August 10, 2023Lume Books Genre: Historical Thriller There is a certain hour, in the dead of night, when the orchid’s scent can put you under a spell… “Nancy Bilyeau has created a beautifully layered and utterly seductive tale… and, at its living, tender heart, a strong-willed and magnetic heroine.” – Emilya Naymark, author of Behind the Lie, finalist for the 2023 Sue Grafton Award Nancy Bilyeau, author of The Crown and The Blue, returns with a tantalizing novel about one woman caught up in a secret nightclub that one can only reach through a certain florist on a cobblestone street. New York…
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Review: Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft
Normally I don’t like reading books with swindler female leads. I read Pretty Things a few years ago and I didn’t love it. Since then I have been a little gun shy when it comes to books featuring female swindlers but something about this book just kept nudging me to pick it up. Maybe it was the cute title, maybe it was tiger sexy looking cover. Who knows by I finally decided to take a chance and read this one. After all, you can’t judge a book by it’s cover or by other books that might be entirely different than what the current book promises to be. This is also…
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Special Feature: Bright and Deadly Things by Lexie Elliott
Murder in the French Alps? YES PLEASE! That was the first thing that caught my eye about this book. I didn’t need to read much more into the summary to know that this would be a book for my TBR list! This book is set in a remote area of the French Alps and I couldn’t think of a more tantalizing location to set a murder mystery. As we move into what I like to call the longest shortest month of the year (February), I think this is just the book that I need to read! February is always cold, dreary and depressing in the PacNW. It rains, it’s cold…
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Review: Take the Lead (Dance Off #1) by Alexis Daria
I first discovered Alexis Daria when I snagged a copy of You Had Me At Hola. I loved the premise of the book and the representation of so many Latinx characters and the whole Spanish soap opera angle really hooked me. I thought the stories were good and I loved the romances that bloomed off the pages. So naturally when I saw this new series come up for review, I was all about it! I also liked that this book featured a biracial romance. Overall it wasn’t a hard sell for me to pick this one up! And since today is Valentines Day I think this is an appropriate time…
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Review: Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo
When this book came out, I jumped at it! I have read the Grisha books, specifically the Shadow and Bone trilogy, and while I didn’t love every book, I remember feeling like they had a lot of imagination with ambitious characters and for a YA series, there was a lot to enjoy. But I never really read anything else from Leigh Bardugo after that trilogy. But naturally her books are quite popular and can be found on many shelves around the blog-o-sphere. When I saw this one was coming out, I wasn’t exactly ready to buy it or even put it on my TBR—-until I started seeing all these posts…
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Special Feature: The Chemistry of Love by Sariah Wilson
This hot new romance was selected as an Amazon First Reads book for January which means Prime members were able to read this one early since it’s not out until February 1st. A TON of people took advantage of it and also shared their reviews online, which put this book #1 on the charts for contempo romances! I cannot WAIT to read this one, I am taking it with me when I go on vacation to Ohio in a couple of weeks. I love love and this book has a Valentines Day read written all over it! So if you are looking for something romantic to read for Valentines Day,…
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Review: The Devil You Know (Detective Margaret Nolan #3) by P. J. Tracy
A couple of years ago, I picked up one of P. J. Nolan’s books that was part of the Monkeewrench series which I thought was pretty good. I liked Nolan’s writing style and thought the series was fast paced with a to to enjoy. I hadn’t read any of the other books in the series before and I felt mostly orientated in the series and that it could have been read as a standalone novel without issue. P. J. Nolan is a pseudonym for a mother-daughter writing duo and while sometimes it can be hard with two writers, writing one book, I think in this case it was seamless. Nolan…