Some books are chock full of my sense of humor—sarcastic wit, jokes bagging on pop culture from the 80s and 90s, and a glass-half-empty protagonist who thinks that things are never going to get better, so why should he try? We’re All Damaged has all of these things and more, and it really hit […]
I really love books where you get different characters’ points of views, slowly gleaning the truth out of them all one by one–and this book does just that. In Rochelle B. Weinstein’s WHERE WE FALL, a marriage that is hanging by a thread due to a wife’s long term bouts of depression and the husband’s […]
Deception Island is a book that had me glued to the pages as I followed the thrilling story of a kidnapper and his victim. All isn’t what it seems from the get go with these characters, and the tension is high from the start. This one was a page turner that I read in […]
Out Rider is the eleventh installment in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming series featuring former military members in a western setting. This is the second book in this series that I’ve read, and I was instantly at home with these characters. The book was written as a standalone,just featuring a new set of main characters with some […]
I really liked and enjoyed Sally Christie’s fictional telling of France’s King Louis XV’s first mistresses, the Nesle sisters Louise, then Pauline followed by Marie-Anne, then briefly Diane, in The Sisters of Versailles (my review here). The intrigues of French court and how easily this King could be manipulated and lead by women to do […]
In honor of the release of the latest installment of Gena Showalter’s Lords of the Underworld series, THE DARKEST TORMENT, all of the books are going on tour this month across several great blogs. I’m shining a spotlight on the fifth book, The Darkest Passion. Be sure to check out the Giveaway at the end for […]
The Darcy Walker series is one of my favorite sets of books, and I burned through the three available books one right after the other over Christmas 2014, eager to delve deeper into the fun and often dangerous world of young ADHD sleuth Darcy and her group of boys that do her dirty work. I reviewed […]
Historical fiction can sometimes be a bit dry, but The Sisters of Versailles is an engaging, almost soap opera-like account of five sisters in eighteenth century France–four of whom become mistresses of King Louis XV. Based on the real-life story of the Nesle sisters and written in a narrative style as if the sisters are […]
The Girl in the Red Coat was a book that had me utterly engrossed within a few pages, with the recently single mother Beth struggling to raise eight-year-old Carmel on her own after her husband has left her for another woman. While Beth seems to be holding onto her daughter too tightly, she still manages […]
Beneath Still Waters was a book where I felt immediately right at home–with the ease of the simpler times of small town life in the mid-twentieth century, with the sights and sounds of a suffocatingly hot summer. I went into this book expecting a historical novel steeped in mystery, and I definitely got that…but I […]
Bestselling author Lori Foster Gives Snapshot of MMA-themed Ultimate Series To celebrate the last book in Lori Foster’s addicting MMA-themed Ultimate Series, we’re going back to the beginning and giving you an overview of the series. Relive you favorite moments, or be introduced to a series you will want to devour. Winter is after-all the […]
The psychological thriller Beside Myself takes a good look at many things like nature vs. nurture, mental illness and how it affects families, the repercussions of suicide, and sibling rivalry. Twins Helen and Ellie have a unique but tenuous relationship when they’re young, mainly based on the strain after their artist father’s suicide and […]
I’m so happy to bring you a guest post today from one of the four authors of an eight-part, high octane FBI thriller series, Tough Justice. Tyler Anne Snell is here to give us her insights into how writing this serial is different than her other books for Harlequin. Romantic suspense author Tyler Anne […]