Book Review: Our Perfect Family By Nicola Marsh

08-25-2025

Lots Of Moving Parts Combine For One Explosive Thriller. This is one of those books where you know from Page 1 that little is going to actually be as it seems... and yet Marsh is going to k

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Book Review: The Invention Of Rum By Jordan B Smith

08-24-2025

Solid Examination Of The Topic. I've read books before where when you read the publisher's description of the book and then read the book, you wonder what whoever within the publisher actually wrote that description was smoking... and if you can get

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Book Review: Stones Still Speak By Amanda Hope Haley

08-22-2025

The Publisher Used The Perfect Review Tagline! I'm not joking on that headline either. As I write this review just over a month before this book publishes, the very first line of the current description of this book says "Untangling the Sunday S

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Blog Tour: All The Ways You Save Me By Melissa Wiesner

08-20-2025

For this blog tour, we're looking at a strong, emotional romance that packs quite a punch. For this blog tour, we're looking at All The Ways You Save Me by Melissa Wiesner.

First, the review I posted to the book sites (BookHype.com / Goodreads.com / TheStoryGraph) and YouTube:

Strong Tale Packs A Punch - And Leaves Enough Left For An Exciting Followup. This is one of those books that packs *such* an emotional weig

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Book Review: Island Endgame By Rebecca Hodge

08-18-2025

Action Packed Island Adventure With Heart. This is one of those books that is going to be great for damn near any reader. If you're more a women's fiction type.

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Book Review: Hooked On The Heart By Maddie Evans

08-17-2025

Solid Maddie Evans Clean Romance. I've been reading Evans' books for a few years now, and this first entrant in a new series is a perfect exemplar of her style... with references (and a few cameos) to what I think was the first series I read from her (the Brigh

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Book Review: Good Grief By Sara Goodman Confino

08-16-2025

Appropriately Weighty Look At Life After Loss. This historical fiction novel set in 1960s era Maryland - which plays a role in both some of the story and in some of the things that happen herein, and thus why it is worth mentioning - really does a rather terrific job of giving an appropriate amount of weight to moving on after the death of a

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Blog Tour: I Know How This Ends By Holly Smale

08-12-2025

For this blog tour, we're looking at a solid romance with an interesting and atypical use of time. For this blog tour, we're looking at I Know How This Ends by Holly Smale.

First, the review I posted to the book sites (BookBub.com / BookHype.com / Goodreads.com / TheStoryGraph.com) and YouTube:

Interesting And Atypical Use Of Time. Admittedly, I'm a sucker for a "glimpse" based story. What makes this one stand out is that instead of spending an extended period of time in the alternate world and coming back to some realization or another, here our main character jumps sporadically and uncontrollably somewhat similar to The Time Traveller's Wife, and just like in that tale, it turns out she *is* seeing at least one possible future. Unlike Time Traveller's Wife, the expansions really are just a few moments at a time before the "snap back" to the actual reality/ timeline. So it presents a very interesting dynamic and storytelling choice.

As to the overall tale itself, kind of a Gilmore Girls/ Hallmarkie type mashup where you've got a woman with an inte

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Book Review: Rope By Tim Queeney

08-12-2025

Solid Examination Of The Topic. This is a book written by a sailor that goes deep into all things rope, including its earliest known histories through to its future uses as currently known and planned. We get a *lot* of history from eras from prehistory through Egypt and the Greek

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Book Review: The Secret Librarian By Soraya M Lane

08-08-2025

Tight-Set Story Packs Hefty Punches. This is one of those tight set stories where it isn't a locked room, but the overall setting for much of the story isn't mo

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