10-06-2025
All Too Real. I've been reading Bleeker's books since her debut, WRECKAGE, many years ago now. I even finally got a chance to meet her IRL at Walt Disney World last year when we both randomly happened to be there. (For what its worth, I'm there frequently, living just 2.5 hrs away. In fact, the reason I'm writing this review less than 24 hrs before this book comes out rather than last week is because I was at Disney yet again late last wee
[Continue Reading]09-30-2025
Excellent Debut. This is one of those books I randomly picked up as an Amazon First Read... and then only read it over
[Continue Reading]09-30-2025
In The Running For Best Book Of 2025. I've read some strong books this year, even a couple this month alone. This is easily right up there in contention for the best of the best. But it could very well be a "me" thing, to a degree.
You see, while this book is all about the roughly 450 mile Camino de Santiago in Spain (and specifically its traditional "French Way"), it also has the vibes of
[Continue Reading]09-30-2025
Solid Slow Burn Romance. This is one of those romances where both people come into it with some pretty hefty emotional baggage - that each is very cognizant of their own and knows they need to work on, thus prov
[Continue Reading]09-30-2025
Rare / Possibly Unique Twist Ending Elevates Great Tale To Exceptional. The very subtitle Joffe Books chose to put on this book of "a brand new totally addictive psychological thriller with a shocking final twist" gives away that there is one here, so I feel zero remorse for mentioning that in the title of t
[Continue Reading]09-29-2025
Perfect Blend Of Travel And Psychological Thriller. Quite simply, this book is amazing. It stumbles out of the gate perhaps a step or two first establishing Ava - and this could well h
[Continue Reading]09-24-2025
A Mullet Of Christmas Romance Not Even Until The Middle, Then Hockey Romance In The Back. In total, this book absolutely works. Now, it won't be for the "clean" / "sweet" crowd - if the fucking cussing in Chapter 2 doesn't throw you out, the habanero
[Continue Reading]09-23-2025
Intriguing 'What If'? Particularly with the author's note at the end, where Ackerman notes that her motivation for this book was to try to resolve the mystery behind Mrs. Stanford's death, this book feels most like a phenomenal book most of
[Continue Reading]09-23-2025
Beautiful Anti-Jaws. In a sense, this book is the anti-Jaws intended to take everything ugly about Jaws (including its New England setting, sorry Yankees) and make it more vivid and beautiful, with a far stronger emotional component to boot.
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[Continue Reading]09-23-2025
Solid Christian Romance Beautifully Displays Its National Park And Shows Dangers Of A Particular Modern Technology. This is Barnett's latest "National Park" book, and once again it shows off its particular national park - in this case, Zion National Park, which I've only
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