The Wayward Children series a collection of novellas surrounding kids who didn’t quite fit into their worlds or their families that at some point in time go through a door to another world. But the thing about doors is sometimes they appear again when you aren’t paying attention and you go through them again. When […]
When Dana Schwartz’s novel Anatomy ended with some unresolved story arcs, it was an easy decision, well, more like a necessity, to pick up Immortality: A Love Story, the second and final installment in The Anatomy Duology. I expected a continuation of Hazel’s journey towards being a surgeon mixed with a gothic mystery set in […]
I always like to start my reviews with the reason I picked up this particular book. Sometimes it is the cover, sometimes it is a well-loved author’s latest release, and sometimes it is because the author mentioned her book during her appearance on my favorite game show. That is too specific a scenario to not […]
The Grimm Society is the first book in a series of the same name following Everly as she goes through a traumatic event with the loss of a parent that opens her up to being a Griever, someone who can see the Grimms living in this world. She is invited to be part of a […]
Sunderworld Vol 1: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry is the first book in a new series following Leopold, an incredibly ordinary guy just trying to figure out what the next steps in his life are going to be. He has no plan, is completely mediocre in every way and sometimes sees things that aren’t […]
A young teenage girl is a horse gal and only this can get her through multiple tragedies in her young life. Christy Cashman pens a stunning debut novel that touches on the messy devastating truth of loss and grief, but the everyday world of horses and horse people in a South Dakota community are brought […]
Ali Hazelwood is a genius when it comes to the Smart Romance genre. She doesn’t simply pay lip service to her subject, such as with a bio-physicist heroine that never actually does anything bio-physicist-y (yup, that is a word). The science she writes about is always an integral part of the story and the characters […]
Icon and Inferno is the second book in the Stars and Smoke series. This is a fun spy type story taking a famous pop star and using him as cover to get into places that the Panacea group (Offshoot of the CIA) might not be able to get into. Winter and Sydney get a second […]
The purpose of Thrifty Thursday is to read a book which was free (at some point). This is a collection of freebies I have read which have characters who are druids, dryads and similar mythology. Kindle freebie on October 29, 2022 (currently free at Amazon and Barnes & Noble as of writing this post) Overall […]
Sweet Nightmare is the first book of The Calder Academy, a spin off to the Crave series set in the same world with a few cross over characters. I have not read the Crave series and kept up just fine, but I’m sure there are some nuggets in here for those who have read the […]