Author: Sophia

A Daughter’s Guide to Mothers and Murder by Dianne Freeman @diannefreeman.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social @sophiarose1816 @difreeman001 @KensingtonBooks

An unsolved murder has baffled everyone and even the police stopped investigating- until now. Frances and George are on the case. Meanwhile, mothers, mother-in-laws, daughters, sisters, and even female frenemies take center stage for Dianne Freeman’s latest. A Daughter’s Guide to Mothers and Murder is the eighth of the Countess of Harleigh cozy historical […]

Posted June 25, 2025 by Sophia in Book Review / 10 Comments

Legend of the Forbidden by JF Jenkins #JFJenkins @sophiarose1816

After the Dragon War and twenty years later, the Dragon Saga continues with a younger generation taking the forefront and facing their own struggles of political intrigue, relationship tangles, and the looming Great Dragon Prophecy. JF Jenkins has penned a vibrant Young Adult Fantasy Romance world of elemental dragons, magic, dramatic romance, and […]

Posted June 22, 2025 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 10 Comments

The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia Gray @claudiagray @vintageanchorbooks @Austenprose @sophiarose1816

After being separated by their fathers and spending months at home in the country, Jonathan and Juliet find themselves not only in London for the Season, but on the spot at the same time for a new murder case to solve, again amongst friends they made at the Knightley’s house party. Claudia Gray has done […]

Posted June 18, 2025 by Sophia in Book Review / 12 Comments

Legend of the Touched by JF Jenkins #JFJenkins @sophiarose1816

Lately, I’ve returned to a series I haven’t touched in years so I have been delighted to participate in Series on Sunday which helped get me properly motivated. The Dragons Saga, a Young Adult fantasy series caught my attention back in 2012. I read the first two books when they released and […]

Posted June 15, 2025 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 12 Comments

Sunset by Sharon Sala @sharonsala1 @sourcebookscasa.bsky.social @SourcebooksCasa @sophiarose1816

A banged up former Pro Rodeo bull rider inherits a ranch in Texas and meets a friendly diner waitress, two wounded hearts cross paths in this first in series small town contemporary romance sprinkled with some indigenous magical realism. I was introduced to Sharon Sala’s writing when I began reading her Blessings, Georgia series and […]

Posted June 11, 2025 by Sophia in Book Review / 18 Comments

Only Bad Options by Jennifer Estep @jenniferestep.bsky.social @Jennifer_Estep @sophiarose1816

A company lab tech knows something she shouldn’t about the crash of the company’s new prototype ship and this lands her a one-way ticket into a war zone between the Regals and Tech-wavers and a conspiracy that leads straight to the throne. Jennifer Estep is a long-time established author of urban fantasy, fantasy, and sci-fi […]

Posted June 8, 2025 by Sophia in Book Review / 18 Comments

Daughters of Olympus by Hannah Lynn #HannahLynn @readlandmark.bsky.social @sophiarose1816

When it comes to tales about the Greek gods, the expectation is dark and dysfunctional all the way if one sticks close to the original. Hannah Lynn first caught my attention when I noticed this title, Daughters of Olympus sharing the tragic tale of Demeter and her daughter, Persephone. I’ve read one other of her […]

Posted June 4, 2025 by Sophia in Book Review / 19 Comments

🎧 The Mint Julep Murders by Angie Fox @AngieFoxauthor #TaviaGilbert @audible_com #LoveAudiobooks @sophiarose1816 #JIAM

A locked room-style mystery in a haunted insane asylum, a gangster ghost other than Frankie, and more hair-raising mystery than Verity can shake a stick at made The Mint Julep Murders another sensational installment in Angie Fox’s Southern Ghost Hunter series of paranormal cozy mysteries. The Mint Julep Murders is the eighth in the series. […]

Posted June 1, 2025 by Sophia in Book Review / 18 Comments

🎧 Trojan Gold by Elizabeth Peters #ElizabethPeters @recordedbooks.bsky.social @Rosenblat_Actor @RecordedBooks #LoveAudiobooks @sophiarose1816

An anonymous piece of mail containing a picture of a woman dressed in the jewels recovered from the famous Troy archeological dig herald a new Christmas time adventure for Vicky Bliss. Elizabeth Peters continues the fun mystery series with the wise-cracking, gorgeous, but very clever Art Historian, her eccentric German boss, and a gentleman thief […]

Posted May 28, 2025 by Sophia in Book Review / 14 Comments

Belle Lisette by Jan Hahn #JanHahn #KindleUnlimited @sophiarose1816

About a dozen years ago, a harrowing adventure befell Darcy and Elizabeth in Jan Hahn’s Pride and Prejudice variation, The Journey. Now, a dozen years later, the author chose to write for her last book, Belle Lisette, a follow-up novel when Darcy and Elizabeth with their grown children have taken a journey to the New […]

Posted May 21, 2025 by Sophia in Book Review / 10 Comments