Reading
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Special Feature and Excerpt: Sunrise on Half Moon Bay by Robyn Carr
I have only recently discovered author Robyn Carr, but I have loved all of her books that I have read so far. She is a prolific writer with many books and series under her belt and I am never disappointed when I pick up one of her books. When this book came up, I was thrilled to be able to bring an excerpt to you guys to check out! The cover is incredibly eye catching and screams spring/summer reading to me. I can almost feel the sun on my skin radiating from this book.After reading this little excerpt, I am even more excited to read it!
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Review: The Arrangement (The Survivors’ Club #2) by Mary Balogh
As many of you might recall, my mom set me the first book in this series for Valentines Day with the PSA to skip all the sex parts. Which was entirely unnecessary as the sex was shockingly tame in the first book, though I can’t say that I loved Hugo very much. So when I finished that one, I was not at all surprised when the second book in the series showed up thanks to my mother. Again, when I opened the box and saw this cover, I had to laugh once more. It screams cliche tacky romance novel. I love romances so much though (tacky cover or not!) and…
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Special Feature: Tactical Crime Division Series Launch
In this exciting new release from Harlequin Intrigue comes the Tactical Crime Division, which has three books that are out now! Perfect for fans of Criminal Minds and Blacklist… Uncover the lives and loves of the FBI elite as they take on the toughest assignments. This is a new four-book miniseries featuring an ensemble cast of characters spread across 4 books, featuring 4 urgent cases, with one stellar team of crime solving experts. The Tactical Crime Division—TCD—is a specialized unit of the FBI. Because of the growing concerns and need for ever increasing response time to criminal events, the FBI created a specialized tech and tactical team combing specialists from…
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Review: The Last Bathing Beauty by Amy Sue Nathan
This cover makes me so excited for summer and long walks on the beach. I have had it on my radar for quite some time and when it was picked as the March Amazon First Reads selection, I knew it was going to be a big new release. I haven’t read anything by this author before but she has written three other well received books and I was excited to give this one a try. Besides all the hype and the beautiful eye catching cover, this book boasted a sassy heroine and I was most excited to read about her, but beyond that I didn’t really know too much about…
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Special Feature and Excerpt: The Final Deception (New York Confidential #5) by Heather Graham
I am an avid fan of police shows. I grew up watching all kinds of true crime tv shows as well as a hot of various ‘cop shows’ on tv. I especially loved the ones with a bit of romance mixed in. As an adult I still watch shows like Law and Order, especially SVU, and am still feeling short changed by the missed opportunity of Olivia and Stabler becoming a thing. So when I saw this book was coming out, it caught my eye because it boasts all the things that I love in a police procedural/crime novel while adding in a hint of romance to break things up.…
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Review: Sin Eater by Megan Campisi
This book has been receiving a ton advanced praise. It’s been talked about as one of the next big Indie Picks and many are characterizing it as a cross between The Handmaid’s Tale meets Alice in Wonderland. When I heard all the praise and hype about this book, I was a little hesitant to read it because I worried that my expectations wouldn’t live up to the hype. However the summary sounded so promising that I didn’t feel like I could pass on it, nor did I want to. The summary promised a dark and innovative novel with lots of imagination mixed with some historical fiction. I was so glad…
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Review: Marguerite by Marina Kemp
When I first encountered this book, my mind ran to the assumption that it was going to be a very ‘high brow’ read. Don’t get me wrong, I love intelligent and more serious novels from time to time but I also enjoy just escaping into a trashy romance too, so it just depends on my mood. But this novel continued to stand out and intrigue me. I loved the cover and thought it was elegant and eye catching, but I also thought the story sounded compelling and smart. By the time I was ready to pick it up, my interest in it was well and truly caught. The book had…
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Special Feature and Excerpt: The Darkness We Hide (The Undertaker’s Daughter #3) by Debra Webb
During these strange times, I think many of us are looking for an escape more than ever before and for many of us, that escape comes from reading. For me personally, I like to pick up a great romance, or a consuming mystery when things get a little stressful in real life and this book here sounds like it more than fits the suspenseful diversion that many of us might be looking for right now. This is the third book in the series, I have not read the other books and I have read than some reviewers who jumped in with this one felt a little lost, but all commented…
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Review: All the Ways We Said Goodbye by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White (Audible Edition)
Team W is an auto buy group of authors for me! I have read all of Lauren Willig’s books and many by Beatriz Williams and Karen White and I have read all of the Team W books so far, each one is so wonderful. These three authors are tried and true writers and I have been anxiously awaiting the release of this latest Team W read. I decided to download it on Audible rather than read the physical copy as I have had great luck with the narrators of the Team W books and I was pleased with my choice to listen instead of physically reading. I couldn’t wait to…
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Review: The Forgotten Home Child by Genevieve Graham
I have been a long time fan of Genevieve Graham and honestly, she hasn’t written a bad book yet in my opinion! She writes with such authority and knowledge on her topics that it’s always an easy yes to read one of her books! She is a Canadian author and her books are mostly set in Canada which isn’t exactly the first place I think of when I think of historical fiction. The most obvious choices are England or France so whenever I pick up one of her books I know I am going to be reading something totally different when it comes to setting. Her latest release is less…