07-24-2025
A Living Example Of "If It Sells". This is yet another solid entry into this now long-ish series, but again one that you really need to read at minimum the book immediately prior to it, as some of the situations we find ourselves in within these pages
[Continue Reading]07-23-2025
Less Destination-y, Less Thrill-y, Still Solid Sophomore Submittal. Ochs' debut last year, The Resort, was a book where the exotic tropical setting played nearly as much into the plot as any of the characters themselves, and where the cat
[Continue Reading]07-22-2025
Update The Outsiders To 2009 ish Florida And You Have This Book. Seriously, this is one case where the publisher got the first line of the description (at least as it exists on publication day) 100% spot on. While there is perhaps more here than many will be comfortable with allowi
[Continue Reading]07-21-2025
For this blog tour, we're looking at one of the most pulse pounding and harrowing mysteries of this series. For this blog tour, we're looking at Shadow On Her Grave by B.R. Spangler.
First, the review I posted to the book sites (BookHype.com / Goodreads.com / TheStoryGraph.com)
[Continue Reading]07-16-2025
Complex Web Of Secrets. You're in your 30's/ 40's or so - old enough to have mid teen kids yourself - and you've been going to the same lake ho
[Continue Reading]07-14-2025
Inverted Hillbilly Elegy. That really is the easiest way to have a general idea about this book. Take nearly everything about Hillbilly Elegy, invert it, and you have a pretty solid approximation of Grant's thinking. Told as a native of the eastern/ southern side of Appalachia rather than the western/ northern side, this is a man who went to prestigious Southern schools (his dad was shot in the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting) rather
[Continue Reading]07-13-2025
Sun Drenched Suspense. From South Florida to a luxury island near St Maarten (itself, I can personally testify, an extravagance that needs to be experienced), this is one of those bo
[Continue Reading]07-13-2025
Rich And Multilayered Story Marred By Emphasis On COVID. At one point during/ after the world collapse due to COVID-19, I had an ironclad star deduction policy for any mention of COVID whatsoever. One line referencing it even obliquely was usually enough to trigger it. I've relaxed that policy over the years and no longer apply it for such one off/ tangential references, so long
[Continue Reading]07-08-2025
Lonsdale At Her Absolute Best. Gah. These past couple of weeks. So very much going on. My wife had a widowmaker type heart attack, survived while having 2 stents placed in arteries 90 and 100% blocked, and is having a stent placed in her 80% blocked widowmaker artery later this week. Lonsdale herself suffering
[Continue Reading]07-06-2025
Rare (Possibly Unique?) Genre Bender/ Blender From The New God Of Science Fiction.
Every damn time I say "this is Jeremy Robinson at his absolute best", he comes out with another book even better - usually with the very next book. :D
Here, we get the kick ass scifi action Robinson gained his following for - he's nev
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