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Review: Lovelight Farms by B.K..

Posted May 31, 2023 by Nima in Contemporary Romance, Rating B, Reviews
Review: Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison

Lovelight Farms Author: B.K. Borison Reviewer: Nima Rating: B+ What I’m Talking About: Yes, I am one of those people who watches the Hallmark “Christmas in July” marathon. Although…since the book contains sexual situations, maybe a better comparison is Lifetime’s Christmas movies. For readers like me, Borison is completely valid in releasing her loosely Christmas […]

Review: Meet Me at the Lake by..

Posted May 1, 2023 by Nima in Contemporary Romance, Rating B, Reviews
Review: Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune

Meet Me at the Lake Author: Carley Fortune Reviewer: Nima Rating: B What I’m Talking About: Meet Me at the Lake was thankfully more romance than women’s fiction because arghhhh…so much over-thinking. The story explores how depression, clinical as well as situational, can affect life choices. Main character Fern Brookbanks was raised by a single […]

Review: A Lady’s Guide to Fo..

Posted July 18, 2022 by Nima in Historical Romance, Rating B, Reviews
Review: A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting by Sophie Irwin

A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting Author: Sophie Irwin Reviewer: Nima Rating: B+ What I’m Talking About: A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting is exactly what the description says it is: Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father’s massive debts, she has only […]

Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouc..

Posted July 6, 2022 by Nima in Rating B, Reviews, Sci-Fi or Fantasy Fiction
Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch

Upgrade Author: Blake Crouch Reviewer: Nima Rating: B+ What I’m Talking About: Speculation about the brain’s capacity has long been a topic of science fictions writers. We daily live with differences in intelligence, education, diminishing capacity and disease as we age, and wonder about environmental factors on what our brains are capable of doing. Mayim Bialik […]

Review: Braking Day by Adam Oy..

Posted April 6, 2022 by Nima in Rating A, Reviews, Sci-Fi or Fantasy Fiction
Review: Braking Day by Adam Oyebanji

Braking Day Author: Adam Oyebanji Reviewer: Nima Rating: A- What I’m Talking About: Braking Day, thoughtful debut offering by Adam Oyebanji, begins in the sixth generation of a seven-generation trip through space. The seventh generation are currently infants and toddlers. For genealogical purposes, a generation is typically defined as twenty years. That means that it’s […]

Review: Weather Girl by Rachel..

Posted January 6, 2022 by Nima in Contemporary Romance, Rating B, Reviews
Review: Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Weather Girl Author: Rachel Lynn Solomon Reviewer: Nima Rating: B What I’m Talking About: Ari Abrams is her job. She loves all things weather and worked hard to become a meteorologist. Russell Barringer is a sports caster who works at the same television station. Weather Girl is the story of their romance and how they […]

Review: The Legacy by Elle Ken..

Posted September 20, 2021 by Nima in Contemporary Romance, Rating A, Reviews
Review: The Legacy by Elle Kennedy

The Legacy Author: Elle Kennedy Reviewer: Nima Rating: A+ What I’m Talking About: Once upon a time, there was an ordinary, four bedroom off-campus house in Hastings, Massachusetts, a fictional suburb of Boston. In that house lived four roommates. They were teammates on the Briar University championship hockey team. As popular campus icons, they were all confident, […]

Review: Miss Lattimore’s..

Posted August 11, 2021 by Nima in Historical Romance, Rating B, Reviews
Review: Miss Lattimore’s Letter by Suzanne Allain

Miss Lattimore’s Letter Author: Suzanne Allain Reviewer: Nima Rating: B+ What I’m Talking About: I haven’t read a historical romance in a while and it was nice to escape the current century by going back to Great Britain’s Regency Era in Miss Lattimore’s Letter.  Sophronia Lattimore is an interesting choice for a main character because she […]

Review: Arsenic and Adobo by M..

Posted May 10, 2021 by Nima in Mystery-Cozy Fiction, Rating C, Reviews
Review: Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

Arsenic and Adobo Author: Mia P. Manansala Reviewer: Nima Rating: C+ What I’m Talking About: There is a darling classic comedy called Arsenic and Old Lace. The 1939 play, which ran on Broadway, was written by Joseph Kesselring. The play is about two elderly women, aunties, who poison their lonely boarders so they can die happy. […]

Listen Up! #Audiobook Review: ..

Posted February 3, 2021 by Nima in Listen Up!, Rating B, Sci-Fi or Fantasy Fiction
Listen Up! #Audiobook Review: Forest 404 Podcast written by Timothy X Atack

Audiobook review: Forest 404 by Timothy X Atack Have you ever thought, “What happens if ‘The Cloud’ gets filled up?” What happens to your digital data after you’re gone? The generations which are now on the back half of their life did not grow up with smartphones where every photo and every whim of thought gets […]

Review: The Raven Lady by Shar..

Review: The Raven Lady by Sharon Lynn Fisher

The Raven Lady Author: Sharon Lynn Fisher Reviewer: Nima Rating: A- What I’m Talking About: In describing the series, Fisher says, “The Faery Rehistory weaves Ireland’s ancient mythological races with Victorian-era technology and manners into an Ireland that was never conquered by the British.” So imagine an alternative world where the fairies of Ireland’s folklore […]

Review: The Mother Code by Car..

Posted August 17, 2020 by Nima in Rating B, Reviews, Sci-Fi or Fantasy Fiction
Review: The Mother Code by Carole Stivers

The Mother Code Author: Carole Stivers Reviewer: Nima Rating: B+ What I’m Talking About: What if—we fight terrorists holed up in a network of caves, where troops are at a disadvantage, with a bioweapon that will wipe them out instead? What if—that virus is man-made? What if—we discover we can’t control it? This is the setting […]