Category: Book Review
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Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
Katherine Center where have you been all my life!!?? I’m blown away at how much I felt while reading Sadie and “Joe’s” story. Blindsided you might say. Here is where it happened for me – when you locked me in with full-throttled investment: “…as if my soul had been rained on and couldn’t dry out.” …
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Hex and the City by Kate Johnson
A cute and quirky RomCom whose MFC is a chaos-magnet, modern witch with magical hair – I’ve never hit “add to Kindle “quicker…and I’m glad I did. This was such a fun read – filled with laugh-out-loud moments between Poppy and Alex, an underlying mystery linked to a cursed necklace, and a surprise family revelation.…
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The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
“The universe sends you the things you need exactly when you need them.” And The Dead Romantics was exactly what the Universe delivered. This story is Six Feet Under meets Ghost Whisperer with an angsty (is that even a word) romance thrown in for good measure. This is easily one of the best books I’ve…
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Curves for Days by Laura Moher
From the shelves of dark romance lover – OMG!!! You have to pick up this cute, quirky, and laugh-out-loud – not dark romance – read! I love a good curvy girl story, and this one did not disappoint. Such a cute premise – a gal in a real bind wins the lotto by cashing in…
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Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros
Gorgeous cover – check. Historical fiction – check. Jewish folklore – check. A sprinkling of dark magic with the feel of a Frankenstein retelling written in first-person and from the POV of the “monster” – check. Sounds amazing, right!? Polydoros lines up his crosshairs on the WWII narrative that the Jews were like sheep led…
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
“Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.” What better way to jump back on the book review bandwagon than with a book I’ve read three times in the last six-months. Yep, you read that correctly. I’m…
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On Writing by Stephen King
You’re probably wondering why, so soon after my review of Elevation, I would review yet another Stephen King book – and for that matter, one published 20 years ago. That’s simple – it’s Stephen King, man! Another reason is this: in all of the inspirational writer’s how-to’s or memoir-like this is how I do it…
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Still Life by Louise Penny
“Three Pines wasn’t on any tourist map, being too far off any main or even secondary road. Like Narnia, it was generally found unexpectedly and with a degree of surprise that such an elderly village should have been hiding in this valley all along. Anyone fortunate enough to find it once usually found their way…
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The Green Mile by Stephen King
“Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.” Paul Edgecombe, The Green Mile I’ve been troubled over the past week, as I’m sure many of you have. So, with my heart hurting for both for the family of George Floyd and for my brothers and sisters in blue, I felt I…
Peace In The Margins 