Author: Sophia

🎧 Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris ‪@realcharlaine.bsky.social‬ #TheresePlummer @recordedbooks.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social @BerkleyPub @sophiarose1816 #SundaySeries

Quitting her job at the library, inheriting a small fortune from a friend, dating a nice minister, and now considering working at her mom’s real estate office, Roe Teagarden, is in a funk. From the outside, her life is enviable, but she wants what all her marrying or married friends have and she […]

Posted March 15, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 10 Comments

Midnight Exposure by Melinda Leigh @MelindaLeigh1 #KindleUnlimited🎧 @sophiarose1816

Having enjoyed each new series release since I started reading Melinda Leigh’s Scarlett Falls series, I’ve been meaning to go back for her backlist. I was able to start this with Midnight Exposure, a holiday in rural small-town Maine setting and a plot involving dark, pernicious killer after visiting photographer and a carpenter-handyman with a […]

Posted March 11, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review / 10 Comments

The Council of the Cursed by Peter Tremayne #PeterTremayne @minotaurbooks.bsky.social @sophiarose1816 #SundaySeries

When an important council of church bishops meet in the town of Autun and hosted at the abbey by a Bishop who follows the new rules about celibacy, more than a difference of agreement explodes among the representatives. Fidelma and Eadulf’s detecting skills are needed once again. Peter Tremayne has moved the […]

Posted March 8, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 8 Comments

A bounty hunting team gets offered a new skip and its not long before the skip turns into something bigger, badder, and they’re in way over their head in no time. Winter Austin is a new to me author as is the Bounty of Shadows series, but I wasn’t even off the first page when […]

Posted March 4, 2026 by Sophia in Blog Tour, Book Review, Giveaway / 14 Comments

Caveat Emptor by Ruth Downie @ruthsd.bsky.social @sophiarose1816 #SundaySeries

Ruso and Tilla are on their way back to Brittain after their adventure with family and murder in Gaul. Married, but without his old job as medicus in the Roman Legion, Ruso grudgingly agrees to a job his old medicus pal, Valens, who’s gone into private practice has dug up for him- […]

Posted March 1, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 12 Comments

Boy with Accidental Dinosaur by Ian McDonald @ianmcdonald.bsky.social @tordotcom.bsky.social @sophiarose1816

A dystopian land where factions fight over commodities and territory – and where dinosaurs perform in circus and rodeo because of a time portal discovered in what was once known as the US. Ian McDonald, a new to me author, drew me in with his coming-of-age tale of a young man with a long-held dream […]

Posted February 25, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review / 12 Comments

The Contemporary Cottage Garden by Pamela Hubbard #PamelaHubbard @timberpress.bsky.social @sophiarose1816

Pamela Hubbard’s writing paired with Rob Cardillo’s photography of Hubbard’s own gardens produced a book lush with information and inspiration to new or veteran gardeners alike. The Contemporary Cottage Garden starts with the history of the cottage garden starting in medieval times and moves into what that garden looks like today. Serf and working-class families […]

Posted February 18, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review / 8 Comments

Dancing with Demons by Peter Tremayne #PeterTremayne @minotaurbooks.bsky.social @sophiarose1816 #SundaySeries

In late 7th century Ireland, a murder of the High King rocks the Five Kingdoms even as a religious war tears through the lands as old pagan ways clash with the new Christianity. Fidelma has been called upon to investigate and solve the murder before a new High King can be crowned. […]

Posted February 15, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 10 Comments

The Cherry Trees of Rosings by Morgan Blake #MorganBlake @sophiarose1816 @KindleUnlimited

Has her imagination conjured up the most detestable man of her acquaintance or is she seeing a ghost? Morgan Blake ‘s idea of Mr. Darcy haunting Elizabeth Bennet for her P&P variation tale utterly tickled my fancy so I eagerly gave this new-to-me author a go. The Cherry Trees of Rosings opens on Elizabeth Bennet […]

Posted February 11, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review / 12 Comments

Persona Non Grata by Ruth Downie @ruthsd.bsky.social @sophiarose1816 #SundaySeries

As I progress through the historical mystery series set in the world of the Roman Empire, I was curious now that the series is moving from Roman Britain to Ruso’s family home in Gaul. Ruth Downie has an interesting blend of humor, historical detail, colorful characters and intriguing mystery plot all woven […]

Posted February 8, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review, Sunday Series / 6 Comments