Book Review: The Locked Ward By Sarah Pekkanen

08-05-2025

Solid Family/ Psychological Drama/ Suspense. This tale takes the concept of twins - always interesting to me given that my grandfather

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Book Review: Well Actually By Mazey Eddings

08-03-2025

Some Will Love It, Some Will Hate It, Nothing Objectively Wrong. This is one of those hyper-"progressive" Gen Z TikTok obsessed romances where how you identify with the characterization of the book itself earlier in this sentence largely tells you how much you're going to enjoy this book, at a very broad, general level at least. Obviously everyone is different and even those generally inclined to love this book may actually hate it or vi

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Book Review: The Last Letter Of Rachel Ellsworth

08-02-2025

Strong Travel/ Foodie / Found Family Drama Shoots Itself In The Foot. This is one of those books where everyone is flawed - and it tells a remarkable story *because* of this, not in spite of it. So if you're a reader where at least one character has to be some level of perfect for you to enjoy the book.... I tell you here and now you're not going to like this one. So save O'Neal yet another 2 star or lower review because you've been warned right here, right now that this isn't your kind of tale.

For the rest of us flawed humans, this is

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Book Review: Beyond Control By Jacob Sullum

07-31-2025

Strong Refutation of Gun and Drug Laws. At least in American politics, the political right loves to demand total freedom re: guns (and has a particularly strong textual Constitutional case for exactly that) yet also demand exceedingly harsh punishments for even minor issues wherein a person is using, possessing, or even being an

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Book Review: Fair Warning By John Sneeden

07-31-2025

Fun, Light-Ish, Fast - A Solid Cozy Mystery. For me, the ideal cozy mystery is mostly fun, mostly light-ish, a fast read, and maybe a touch quirky. Solid friend dynamics are always a great thing too. He

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Book Review: God Is On Your Side By Joshua Ryan Butler

07-31-2025

Max Lucado-Style Examination Of John. With a title like this, the easy assumptions are that the book is going to be some kind of fluffy bullshit "self help" slop that never actually helps anyone or that it is going to be so "inclusive" of everything that it excuses everything and just make everyone feel better about themselves, no matter how horrible they may be.

Except that is about as far from what we actually get here as is possible to be.

What we actually get here is an insightful look through the Gospel of John that shows elements both of the Gospel as a whole and of specific stories herein that even I, who have studied this

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Book Review: The Miners Myth By Russell W Johnson

07-31-2025

Solid Conclusion With One Significant Flaw. As a conclusion of a trilogy, this story works *extremely* well. We get a contained story here that is on par with the other books, yet we also get closure for each of our main characters and answers about the overall mythos established in the earlier books as well. Yes, for fans of books having every

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Book Review: The Devil She Didnt Know By Laura Drake

07-29-2025

Excellent And Atypical Examination Of Serial Killers And Their Relationships. When I first met Drake, several years ago now, she was a cowboy romance author. Seriously,

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Book Review: Hot To Go By Kristen Bailey

07-28-2025

Hilarious And Spicy Beach Read Romance. I don't normally proclaim a book to be a "beach read" as by definition, *any* book you bring to read on a beach is a "beach read", and I don't know what books every reader is bringing to every beach for all of known humanity, thus I can't possibly proc

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Book Review: Perilous Tides By Elizabeth Goddard

07-28-2025

Solid... Mystery/ Christian Fiction? Christian Fiction/ Mystery? This is one of those action/ mysteries where both the mystery and the action pick up almost from the first words... and then you'll hear

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