After reading a couple of dark and heavy thrillers, Talk Bookish To Me was a welcome breath of fresh air. Delving into Kara’s life, fulling engaging me from page one as she struggled to overcome writer’s block and be there for her best friend’s wedding, I could totally sympathize and understand. Light and airy with […]
YOU WILL REMEMBER ME is one wicked, twisted tale–but in all the good ways. Amnesia, lies, and murder wind together to form a book that I didn’t want to put down. I just had to know what happened next. This book isn’t exactly formulaic like most psychological suspense since you get bad vibes off of one […]
Maisey Yates’ books always feel like home to me–like I’m there with friends and family from page one. I always enjoy how the author weaves together several characters’ stories into one cohesive narrative in the end, and Confessions from The Quilting Circle was no exception. In this novel, we get to know a mother, Mary, […]
The Bookstore on the Beach is my first Brenda Novak novel, and I enjoyed the different storylines and dramas that interwove throughout. Featuring three generations of women in one family, this book follows their dramas, the fears, and their high points over a summer on the beach in North Carolina. Grandmother Mary owns a bookstore […]
Adele Parks is back in the United States with her latest release, Just My Luck. I’ve come to know Adele Parks for her use of unreliable narrators, and this one was chock full of them. Lexi and Jake have played the same lottery numbers for years, along with pooling money together for the tickets […]
I really loved the first book in the Cape Sanctuary series, The Sea Glass Cottage, and I think I loved the second installment even more. The Path To Sunshine Cove hit all the right romance buttons for me: emotional, romantic, relatable and unique characters, but above all heart-hurting backstories with moments of brightness and hopefulness. […]
Allison Brennan isn’t a new-to-me author, having read Love Me To Death and Notorious in the past and enjoyed both of these books. The second installment in the Quinn & Costa Thriller series is Tell No Lies. Focusing on a mobile FBI unit as they investigate the murder of a college student and illegal […]
I’ve enjoyed all of the Heather Graham’s books, and Danger In Numbers is no exception. Set in Florida, two murders that seem to be more ritualistic than random have occurred, and suspicions of a cult being responsible arise very early due to the crime scenes. A younger special agent and her older and wiser […]
Time travel is hard to get right without being cheesy or too complicated to understand, and Nick Jones’ novel And Then She Vanished is definitely neither of those things. Centered around the disappearance of Joseph Bridgeman’s sister when they were young, this novel explores what it’s like to experience and live with a trauma such […]
Mysteries and thrillers have been my go-to for the last few years, and The Shadow Box by Luanne Rice drew me in from the first page. It isn’t a secret who Claire Beaudry Chase thinks just tried to kill her in the garage of her large house in a gated community. She’s sure it was […]
It’s been a hot minute since I’ve read a book featuring second-chance romance or a secret baby, and Back in the Texan’s Bed by Naima Simone has both. Three years earlier, chef Charlotte Jarrett and oil heir Ross Edmond have a secret romance. Tired of being kept a secret since a relationship between the […]
I’m happy to bring to you an excerpt from the excellent book, WE COULD BE HEROES by Mike Chen. Stay tuned to the bottom for my review. Chapter 3 Jamie stopped, catching himself. He’d gone too far this time. Close eyes, deep breaths, count to five, and then open eyes to see the damage. Damn […]
Pretending deals with some very heavy subject matter: rape, low self-esteem, PTSD, and mental health. I haven’t read a book that tackles these issues so prominently in quite a while, and I enjoyed reading April’s journey of accepting the rape by her ex-boyfriend a few years prior to the beginning of the book to April […]
