Book Review: Blame It On Emerald Isle By Luke Young

07-15-2023

Strong Continuity And Also Strong Growth. This book is Luke Young's first in several years - I believe his last new release before this one was 2017's

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Book Review: The Beauty Of Rain By Jamie Beck

07-10-2023

Beck's Most Powerful Book To Date. Somewhat surprisingly, I seem to either own and/ or have read every single book Beck has put out to date - and I think there's only four (the Cabot trilogy + In The Cards) that I haven't actually read yet. So I can absolutely speak with a degree of authority on that title here in particular. With her move towards w

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Book Review: Play To Win By Jodie Slaughter

07-09-2023

Extreme And Pervasive Racism Mars Otherwise Spectacular Second Chance Romance. Ok, white dude claiming racism on a book that features few white characters - none of whom are portrayed kindly, fwiw. So let me explain up front: My standard for detecting bigotry is to flip the demographics. If it would then be considered bigotry, then it is bigotry in the original form as wel

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Book Review: Aeon Burn By Matthew Mather

07-08-2023

Solid Middle-Of-Trilogy Tale. This book is one of those that has basically one goal - tell a solid tale that picks up well from the opening book and sets up the final book to be MUST. READ. It does that job pretty solidly. It continues our various storylines from the first book, though it perhaps could have used a

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Blog Tour: Two Little Souls By B R Spangler

07-06-2023

For this blog tour, we're looking at an explosive tale that is an immediate sequel to the events of the book before it. For this blog tour, we're looking at Two Little Souls by B.R. Spangler.

Here's what I had to say on Goodreads:

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Book Review: The Girl In Lifeboat Six By Eliza Graham

07-05-2023

Complicated Story. This tale is one of those stories where the front half and back half are wildly divergent, and thus one's feelings of the overall tale may become more complex and nuanced - even as this book gets ever more preachy towards the end, even though it too started out more nuanced.

The front half of the book, spending roughly 30% of the front of the book establishing the various characters and their relationships, as well as the esteemed luxury liner they all find themselves on in the early periods of WWII - before December 1941. The next 20% or so is then s

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Book Review: The Last Odyssey By James Rollins

07-01-2023

Good Change Of Pace After The Last 'Trilogy'. The prior three books in the Sigma Force series proved to be almost an i

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Blog Tour: The Girls On Chalk Hill By Alison Belsham

06-30-2023

For this blog tour, we're looking at a book that is a solid and compelling introduction to a new British police procedural series. For this blog tour, we're looking at The Girls On Chalk Hill by Alison Belsham.

Here's what I had to say on Goodreads:

Solid Introduction To New British Police Procedural Series. This book is exactly what I note in the title - a soli

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Book Review: Sex Ed By Kristen Bailey

06-30-2023

Fun With Sex. My god this review is going to get me on so many porn bot radars, isn't it? But the title here really fits - starting with t

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Book Review: The Girls Last Cry By Alison Belsham

06-30-2023

Pulse Pounding Criminal Innovation. This is the book that cements the Lexi Bennett series as must read, as it starts off feeling

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