My Thoughts: I didn’t pick the novella Home for the Holidays up when it was part of the anthology, The Bite Before Christmas. I preordered the Kindle ebook when I heard that it was being published on its own, and I’m really glad that I didn’t wait very long to start reading it after it […]
My Thoughts: One of the best memories that I have of watching Saturday Night Live in the 1990s are the Deep Thoughts with Jack Handey segments. Take those quirky spots full of dry, witty observations and add in an adventure through these alternate universe jungles of Honolulu featuring a rather clueless and brash guy, and […]
My Thoughts: It’s no secret that JL Bryan is one of my short list of insta-read authors. It could be a grocery list at this point and I’ll take a stab at it, knowing that I’m in for one hell of a heart-pounding and spooky ride down the aisles with demons, witches, evil fairies, kick […]
My Thoughts: I was eagerly awaiting the third and final book in the Artists Trilogy by Karina Halle, and Bold Tricks did not disappoint. Picking up right where Shooting Scars left off, con artist Ellie has formed a bizarre partnership with Camden and Javier in order to get her mother and her father figure Gus back […]
My Thoughts: Throughout Burrow Down, mommies and daddies are settling their children into bed and reading them bedtime stories. Suddenly everyone’s books start to disappear, and brave rabbit Eliza Brown decides to get to the bottom of the book thefts by setting a trap for the bandit to catch him in the act. While she […]
My Thoughts: The Stranger You Know is Andrea Kane’s third installment in the Forensic Instincts series. I haven’t read the first two books, but I had no problem picking this book up and getting up to speed with the freelance forensic investigation team lead by behaviorist Casey. Hired by a father who doesn’t have long […]
My Thoughts: Allison Campbell is the owner of First Impressions, an image consulting firm in Philadelphia. Her clients are mostly newly divorced women and business people with self-esteem issues or other things that are holding them back, and Allison prides herself on helping them both on the outside and the inside. But there’s one type […]
My Thoughts: A fourteen year old girl is hit by a car on a small town’s back road, then dragged to the ditch and left for dead. As she clings to life in the hospital, the residents of Little Melham are abuzz with rumors and suspicions about their neighbors as they wonder who would commit […]
My Thoughts: Having just finished his college degree, Wyatt McKenna reluctantly returns to his small Southern Texas hometown for the summer before he starts medical school. He hasn’t been back since he left for college four years earlier, and when he arrives in Caldero, he finds that most things haven’t changed. His mother is still […]
My Thoughts: Tumble & Fall follows the lives of three teenagers as they go about their lives with one week before a large asteroid is due to hit the Earth. How would they spend their last days? Would they spend their limited time at their homes on Martha’s Vineyard with their families and friends, or would […]
Pushy: As soon as I learned that David Sedaris had written another book, I couldn’t wait to read it! There’s something so sly and wry and undeniably entertaining about his prose, particularly the way he can bare his soul so fully to the reader and still maintain a self-effacing humor throughout! And when I learned […]
Pushy: Ahh…Jane and David. It was with immense pleasure that I delved back into the world that Mary Robinette Kowal built for them. Magical is such an inadequate word for the rich, lush, amazing alternate history Regency era world of the Glamourist Histories, and Without A Summer is as exceedingly enchanting as its predecessors. Heather: Stepping back […]
My Thoughts: The Artists Trilogy books have cemented my love for author Karina Halle, even though I was already a big fan of her new adult horror/romance Experiment in Terror series. She’s able to write such realistic, flawed, human characters that you simultaneously care about and hope to God that you never meet in real […]
