Goodreads’ Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Do you ever wish you can pop back in time to Christmases from your past? In The 12 Christmases of You and Me, the main character, Maisie, gets the chance to do just that. What I Liked I liked the main character, Maisie. She is every woman who […]
Goodreads’ Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The House Mate is a psychological thriller that blew me away and caused me to rethink my perceptions of the entire story after the book came to an end. What I Loved I love that there are so many themes running through the plot. The most obvious […]
Travel back in time to Ancient Greece in this new novel by Josie Jaffrey entitled The Wolf and the Water. Meet Kala, a girl with a malformed leg who grew up believing that no man would want her as a wife because of her disfigurement. When her father is killed […]
Goodreads’ Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Invisible Girls is a thrilling Easter egg hunt of carefully hidden clues that lead to the most significant golden egg of all-time. What I Loved The shorter answer would be to the question of what didn’t I love but raving about what I love about a book […]
Goodreads’ Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Emperor’s Wolves is a new perspective on the already fascinating world of Elantra found in The Chronicles of Elantra series. What I Loved I love that Severn is like a whole new character and one of my new favorites. In The Chronicles, he is a solid support character […]
Goodreads’ Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ At its core, this is a story about a girl on the verge of adulthood who must lose herself to find herself and make decisions that will define the rest of her life. What I Liked I liked the main character, Thea. She has had an unusual […]
The Solace of the Bay Leaves is a cozy mystery with a modern feel that gently pushes against the genre’s conventions. The main character, Pepper Reece, is the mistress of Spice and runs The Seattle Spice Shop is Seattle’s famous Pike Place. She dropped out of college, divorced her husband, […]
Goodreads’ Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kingdom of Sea and Stone, the conclusion to the story that began with Crown of Coral and Pearl, takes you on a perilous journey through Ilara and beyond. What I Loved I loved that Ceren (the antagonist) is developed so profoundly. Initially, he is portrayed as a single-minded, […]
Vultures is a story about the balance between law and chaos. There must be a balance, but that balance is tough to maintain. As I understood it, the doors are left wide open for chaos to gain a foothold and takeover in periods of balance. And when that happens, bad […]
Limelight is a slow-build mystery with a big message. What I Liked I loved how the story covered a hot button topic in euthanasia. Even as modern as medicine is, there are still some diseases that medicine can do very little for, and it is scary. Most of us are […]
Goodreads’ Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What an enjoyable story! I couldn’t put this book down as it took me through a range of emotions from bringing a tear to my eye to making me laugh out loud – a story that defines love while exploring the social psyche that defines most teens. […]
Goodread’s rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What do you get when you take a well-known fairytale, modernize it, add a dollop of intrigue, a lot of action, and a pinch of steamy romance? You get The Glass Queen, a modern retelling of the classic Cinderella story like I never imagined it in my […]
