Reading
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Special Feature and Excerpt: Promised: A Proper Romance by Leah Garriott
This book has been popping up quite a bit in my recommendations around the web. I first saw it on Goodreads and as ‘readers who read this book liked…’ and then on my Amazon. I was thrilled to be part of this tour and bring you guys a little sneak peak with an excerpt. Now that I have read the excerpt, I have decided that I need the book because it just sounds so sweet and fun! Plus look at that cover….just wow! This book is perfect for fans of Jane Austen who are looking for something similar and who enjoy Regency era romances. I can’t wait to read this…
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Review: The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
This book has been everywhere lately and with good reason! I have been a fan of Simone St James for quite a while. I read The Broken Girls a couple of years ago and then quickly binged the rest of her books, loving each and every one! When I saw that this book was coming out, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it! This is one of those authors and books that received a ton of hype and while sometimes I am weary of overly hyped books, this was one I was sure to love. All of her books have been great and I knew I had nothing…
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Special Feature and Excerpt: HER HOMECOMING WISH by Jo McNally
I just love a good romance novel and with Valentine’s Day being this month, it makes me even more excited to read a good romance novel. The gold standard of romance novels for me is Harlequin. Harlequin Publishing has so many facets when it comes to romance novels, historical, suspense, desire, special edition….so many different subsections of the well known publisher. There is basically something for everyone when it comes to a Harlequin romance novel. I have read a number of books from Harlequin and I love when I have the opportunity to share a new release with my readers! This particular release is a special edition from Harlequin and…
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Review: The Winter Companion (Parish Orphans of Devon #4) by Mimi Matthews
To say that I have been eager to read this final installment of the Parish Orphans of Devon series is a gross understatement. I absolutely loved all of Mimi Matthews books and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this one! Of all the orphans, Neville was probably to most mysterious character for me and the one we never seemed to get to know, beyond the basic back story told by the other characters. I was excited to see how Neville’s love story as well as his character unfolded in this book. There was so much discussion in the other books about how Neville’s accident as a child had…
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Special Feature and Giveaway: Paperback Release for The Lost History of Dreams by Kris Waldherr
The Lost History of Dreams by Kris Waldherr Paperback Publication Date: February 18, 2020 Atria Books Hardcover & eBook; 336 Pages Genre: Historical/Gothic/Mystery The Lost History of Dreams by Kris Waldherr is now out in paperback! In it, a post-mortem photographer unearths the dark secrets of a famed poet’s marriage in this “sensual, twisting gothic tale…in the tradition of A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale, and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights” (BookPage). Blurring the line between the past and the present, truth and fiction, and ultimately, life and death, The Lost History of Dreams is “a surrealist, haunting tale of suspense where every prediction turns out to…
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Review: Adequate Yearly Progress by Roxanna Elden
I worked in public education for twelve years and during that time I had a close friend who was a counselor in our Guidance Office. We would have lunch together every day and talk about how we needed to write a book about public education because people would never believe the things we have to go through on a daily basis. In fact we stated keeping a list of things that would happen in our office each year and at the end of the school year we would go back and reflect on the year of weird things we had to deal with. The list was long every single year…
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Take Two Review: Why Kill the Innocent (Sebastian St. Cyr #13) by C.S. Harris
When I first read this book, it was only the third book I had read in this series. I read book 1 and then book 12 before reading this one and that was it. I went into this one feeling a little lost in the series in regards to the principle characters, but tried to keep my focus on the mystery itself. Then back in Dec, I decided to bit the bullet as it were and read the entire series again from beginning to end as it was intended and what I have discovered is this series is positively unputdownable! While I might not love every book in the series,…
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Review: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia #2) by C.S. Lewis (Audible Edition)
Even though I was a big reader as a child, this book just never made it on my to be read list. I wasn’t into fantasy as a kid and thus this book never appealed to me. I was way more into the American Girl books than Narnia and I even went to a Catholic school…..the Narnia books are practically required reading at Catholic schools! But for whatever reason, I just by passed this entire series until now. As an adult I have absolutely fallen in love with fantasy and magical novels and now that I have a little boy, I can’t wait to share the Narnia books with him…
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Take Two Review: Where the Dead Lie (Sebastian St. Cyr #12) by C.S. Harris
I was first approached to read this series in 2017. At that time I hadn’t heard of Sebastian St Cyr and was hesitant to read the twelfth book in the series, so I read the first book with the intention of reading the series before this one, but sadly that was overly ambitious and I only had time for book 1 and then moved right into this one. At that time I enjoyed the mystery and didn’t feel lost in the mystery itself, but definitely felt lost with some of the other plot points threaded through out the series. As a result, I felt that it was a worthy while…
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Special Feature and Excerpt: Witness Protection Widow (Winchester, Tennessee #5) by Debra Webb
I am such a fan of romantic suspense and I love a good police procedural! This book series seems to merge both of those two together to create a fun new romance novel perfect for fans of suspense and police/crime fiction alike! I am thrilled to be sharing an excerpt with you guys today and after reading it, I think it sounds like something new and exciting and perfect for Valentine’s Day! It’s out now and is being met with rave reviews! Don’t miss out on this one, it sounds like it’s going to be a killer read! (pun intended!)