Last Guard Author: Nalini Singh Reviewer: Jen Rating: B-/C+ What I’m Talking About: Payal and Canto are considered flawed, yet both thrive and succeed. Payal is a Cardinal telekinetic and runs her family’s vast company. Canto, a Cardinal telepath, is a hidden member of the powerful Mercant clan. Both are also part of the rarely discussed […]
Audiobook review: Fall of Night by Lara Adrian Phaedra, an Atlantean, is plagued by a reoccurring dream where she is lost in a dead forest wasteland. However, this most recent time is different, she meets a Breed and witnesses an explosion. Micah, son of original Order member Tegan, is in Kazakhstan when he is severely injured […]
How to Find a Princess Author: Alyssa Cole Reviewer: Jen Rating: C- What I’m Talking About: Makeda has a serious problem with setting boundaries. She would rather push aside her own hurt, disappointment, or frustration so she can tend to others. This has left her single, jobless, and in debt. Her Grandmore takes her in, where […]
Audiobook Review: Spin, Ruin, & Rule by C.D. Reiss Theresa Drazen and Antonio Spinelli story starts in Spin and continues through Ruin and Rule making up the Corruption series by C.D. Reiss. Theresa is the youngest girl in the Drazen family, and Antonio moved to LA from Italy to avenge his sister. While he didn’t […]
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. […]
What A Guy Wants Author: Judi Fennell Reviewer: Jen Rating: B-/C+ What I’m Talking About: Beckett, aka Beck, loses the gang’s monthly poker game, so it’s his turn to work for his friend Mac’s Manley Maid Service for a month. Beck grew up in the foster system, no plans, no ambition, but that’s all behind […]
Audiobook review: A Game of Cones by Abby Collette Set in the small tourist town of Chagrin Falls, OH, A Game of Cones book opens in summertime, with main character Bronwyn (Win) out straight due to the success of her newly renovated ice cream shop, Crewse Creamery. At a meeting for local business owners, residents are […]
Hearts Repaired Author: Caraway Carter Reviewer: B. Rating: C+ What I’m Talking About: Hearts Repaired, by another new-to-me author, Caraway Carter, is a sweet, sometimes bumpy May-December romance that aims to prove love doesn’t care about the particulars—even a thirty-year age gap—when two people are meant to be. An expansion of an earlier novella (The […]
In the Garden of Spite Author: Camilla Bruce Reviewer: Jennifer Rating: C What I’m Talking About: I believe In the Garden of Spite is a standalone, and it’s very different than my usual read. It’s more like something I would watch since I’m not big on reading historical fiction, but the promise of a female serial […]
Audiobook review: Mercy Blade by Faith Hunter Mercy Blade opens a month after the conclusion of Blood Cross. Jane and Rick are back at her mountain home, packing up her belongings so she can move to New Orleans to take on the job offered by the Vampire Council when the world finds out that Weres (shifters) […]
Hell or High Water Author: Julie Ann Walker Reviewer: Jennifer Rating: C+ What I’m Talking About: I got an intro into the Deep Six series by way of the short prequel, Hot as Hell. It was a bit of sexy, a bit of suspense leaving me looking forward to reading Hell or High Water the first full-length […]
How to Catch a Sinful Marquess Author: Amy Rose Bennett Reviewer: Ang Rating: C What I’m Talking About: How to Catch a Sinful Marquess is a regency retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and it has all the proper elements for a regency retelling: a maiden needing to escape a horrible arranged marriage and a “beast” […]
Rough Creek Author: Kaki Warner Reviewer: Ang Rating: C- What I’m Talking About: I would like to start by saying I am a big fan of Kaki Warner. I have been reading her historical fiction for years and if you look at past reviews you will see overall I really enjoy them. Ms. Warner tends […]
Not Like the Movies Author: Kerry Winfrey Reviewer: Nima Rating: C What I’m Talking About: I’m sorry to say that I did not like the second installment in Kerry Winfrey’s Waiting for Tom Hanks series, Not Like the Movies, nearly as much as the first. It’s not nearly as cute or tidy, but then again, Winfrey did […]
Audiobook review: The Tourist Attraction by Sarah Morgenthaler Zoey saved her tips for years so she can finally take her dream vacation to Alaska. Sleeping on the couch in her friend’s swanky hotel suite, Zoey plans excursions that will fulfill her bucket list; however it seems like the world is against her when something goes wrong […]