Historical fiction can be a bit hit or miss for me, and I was glad to see that The Impossible Girl hit all of the right notes in capturing the dark, gritty despair of Victorian mid-1800s New York City. In 1830, a wealthy young woman has been shunned by her family since she’s become […]
Thrillers and suspense are my favorite, and psychological suspense hold a special place in my heart. When the Lights Go Out is haunting, tense at times, beautiful, and heartbreaking throughout, and it certainly held my attention throughout the entire book. Told from two points of view in different times: twenty-ish year-old Jesse in present day, who has […]
Anna Todd is partnering with me for a giveaway! Look for the Rafflecopter widget at the end of this post for your chance to win. I remember hearing about author Anna Todd and her Wattpad success, but since I’m a bit older than her original demographic I never read her wildly successful After […]
With cooler nights finally coming around here in Northern Illinois, a little Gothic suspense sounded good with the impending change in season–and Stephen Giles’ The Boy at the Keyhole certainly fit the bill. Set in the early 1960s in small town England, nine-year-old Samuel wants nothing more than for his mother to return home […]
There’s just something about the worlds that Maisey Yates creates, featuring characters in two picturesque Oregon towns of Gold Valley and Copper Ridge, that grabs my attention and has me interested from the start. Her romances always feature a fiesty heroine and a smooth talking cowboy, but both always have their problems and […]
After loving J.T. Ellison’s last book, Lie To Me, I was very eager to read her latest mystery/thriller, Tear Me Apart. Featuring 17-year-old skiing champion Mindy Wright who crashes, breaking her leg and then the doctors find she has an aggressive form of leukemia during her surgery. But when they test her parents for stem […]
As a fan of epic fantasy, I’m thrilled to bring you an excerpt from the Laurie Forest’s first book in the Black Witch Chronicles, THE BLACK WITCH. The next book in the series is out in September, so please enjoy an excerpt from the first book to give you a taste of this vast and fantastic novel. […]
Horror is a genre that can be a bit hit or miss for me, and it’s even harder to maintain a successful series book after book and still hold my interest. J.L. Bryan’s ninth book in the Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper series The Tower, mixes things up a bit by heading from Savannah to […]
Marissa Parlette is an elementary school speech therapist, and she’s newly engaged to the man of her dreams–who happens to be the father of one of her patients that she’s successfully helped at school. To announce their engagement, Marissa and EMT Nathan gather their close friends and family for a dinner party, but the night […]
I’m thrilled to bring you an excerpt from the fabulous J.T. Ellison’s latest book, Tear Me Apart. I really loved her previous novel, Lie To Me, so I can’t wait to dig into this new book and look for my review later posting on August 28. Follow the excerpt tour beginning in mid August, with long excerpts […]
It’s been a while since I’ve read a great horror novel, and after reading the fantastic sci-fi novel It Takes Death To Reach a Star by Stu Jones and Gareth Worthington and seeing that they were recommending Beneath the Lighthouse by Julieanne Lynch, I definitely had to check it out based on the cool, interesting […]
I’m always blown away by how quickly I get immersed in the worlds that Susan Mallery creates. Within just a few pages, I felt right at home with the characters and Pacific Northwest setting, and it was no different with her latest stand alone novel, When We Found Home. Focusing on three half-siblings who […]
Honeysuckle Dreams is a great novel about friends entering into a marriage of convenience, and in this case it’s so a father can gain custody of the child that he thought was his from his now deceased ex-wife. I’ve never read a Denise Hunter book, but I was instantly drawn into the small southern community […]
