In Pucked, the heroine accountant meets a her professional NHL hockey player step-brother’s hot teammate, who has a womanizing reputation that precedes him. After an explosively mind-blowing one night stand, Violet is left vowing that she can’t slip up like this again because Alex is said to be quite the player, while Alex has his […]
The Heart of Betrayal has been burning up my bookshelf for four months now since I had preordered it and it came in the mail in July. After loving The Kiss of Deception and falling for Lia and both her Assassin and Prince last year, I was so glad to finally get the time to […]
Picking up one of J.L. Bryan’s Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper books is sure to be packed full of chilling scares, a bit of historical research about a real place that’s purported to be haunted, great one liners, and smart decisions/ways for the characters to get to the bottom of the hauntings. The fifth installment […]
It’s October again and that means that Halloween will soon be here. Since I spent a good part of the summer (and this year for that matter) reading horror, I’ve culled through my books read list on Goodreads to find the best–the scariest books and series that I’ve been recommending to everyone. Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper […]
Good, solid storytelling sets a great foundation for an audiobook. But a unique way of telling that story makes for a stellar audiobook that you don’t want to stop listening to, and The Dead House is told in such a way that it excels head and shoulders above so many other stories in my opinion, […]
Tonight the Streets Are Ours is one of those books that is so realistic that it can make you feel a bit nostalgic for your lost teenage years one second, but in the next it reminds you just how much of a bitch those years actually were. This novel isn’t a romance, it’s a […]
Happy Friday, and I’m so excited to bring you the Kismet blog tour stop for Jonathan Watkins’ legal thriller Motor City Shakedown. Mysteries and thrillers are my go-to genre and I love the variety that there is to read inside therein. I asked Jonathan to share some of his favorite books that he could recommend […]
The Southern Ghostly Mystery series has been a real treat to discover this year, and I’ve really enjoyed reading about Emma Lee Raines as she’s trying to find her footing as a Betweener Medium. While she juggles trying to help murdered ghosts cross over and her regular job at the family funeral home, Emma Lee […]
By now any of you who’ve read Katie McGarry’s books know that she has a formula that works: take a troubled girl and an equally but differently troubled boy, push them together, put them through the ringer, and then make them work for a fantastic happy ending. And it’s always told in alternating points of […]
Who hasn’t seen the news story about the discovery in 2010 of a Paris apartment that was locked away, untouched for seventy years? I was intrigued by the pictures that were released, and author Ella Carey was as well, enough so that this idea sparked a novel, Paris Time Capsule. New Yorker Cat Jordan receives […]
Welcome to the Pre-Squee, a weekly feature here at the Bookworms and at The Book Swarm. Some books, though they might not be coming out for a few months, need an early squee — we just can’t hold in our excitement about them! Sure, we’ll do full reviews closer to the release date but this […]
This has been my “Summer of Horror,” and to mark the end of the season and a lot of wonderfully dark and twisted books, Kevin P. Keating’s The Captive Condition was my end cap. I’d like to say that this novel lived up to my expectations, but maybe a chocked-full summer of great horror […]
From the back cover blurb for Broken Homes and Gardens, the comparisons are outright made with the movie when Harry Met Sally. Since I can’t really remember much of that movie after watching it when it was shown on cable for the first time way back, I’ll just say that you don’t need to make […]
