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Dark Side Of The Reno. This is a modern day romance with old school flair, featuring concepts of s

Beautiful Ending. This is the finale of the Wildflower Saga, with a lot of summa

This week we're looking at a book that is a solid cross between Mark Twain and the 2014 comedy The Other Woman that also does a great job of showing a wide swath of Southern U

For this blog tour, we're looking at a book that does solid work with its mystery and suspense elements, but which is hampered by the unnecessary inclusion of COVID. For this blog tour, we're looking at Woman Last Seen by Adele Parks.

I DO NOT WANT TO READ ABOUT COVID IN FICTION!!!!! I think I might have to start waging a similar war on this as I do with 'prooftexting' in Christian nonfiction - an automatic star deduction every time I see it, which is the case here. Granted, it wasn't *as* prevalent as I've seen other books (as this book takes place in the days just before England initiated its lockdown), but I personally do not want to see it AT. ALL.

Outside of the COVID elements (which were really more tangential to the story anyway and could have been easily eliminated, which makes it even more infuriating that they were included), this book has a slow build

When Dreams Turn To Nightmares, Create Your Own Reality. This was another so

For this week's Featured New Release we're looking at a tale of suspense set in three different timelines - present, years ago, and unknown - that all merge into a masterclass of suspense of a finale. This week we're looking at The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf.

Here's what I had to say on Goodreads:

Master Class In Suspense. Up front, this tale is told in three different timelines from three different perspectives - so if you're a reader that struggles with that... well, this is an excellent read and you should still try it, but I get it. :) That noted, what makes this tale so strong is that each of the three threads - present day, years ago, and unknown - could be separate books and still be equally compelling, and yet here Gudenkauf weaves them together so masterfully that they play off e

For this blog tour we're looking at a strong tale remiscenent of both the X-Files and ET: The Extra Terrestrial where scifi is used more as setup for women's fiction level family drama, but which is still strong enough to comfortably classify the book within the bounds of scifi as well. For this blog tour we're looking at Light Years From Home by Mike Chen.

Space Opera Scifi For The Women's Fiction Crowd. This is one of those books where you go into it expecting a lot of scifi... something. Drama, action, maybe comedy, whatever. Instead you get scifi as setup for more women's fiction type family drama. Which is actually an interesting spin, but which will leave both crowds a bit perplexed. Overall though, Chen actually serves both crowds quite well, with enough of an off-screen hint of a backstory that he could come back to this world and give it the full-on Richard Phillips' Rho Agenda-style trilogy of trilogies exploring just the stuff he left *off* the page in this book - and yet what he *does* put on the page is truly solid women's fiction where brother and father's disappearances set in motion chains of events that mother nor either daughter could have ever dreamed of. Most of the actual tale here is more about the two sisters and how their lives have changed since that moment 15 years ago - and how they can move forward. The climax, with the FBI hot on the siblings' tails as they race toward brother's ultimate redemption, is as taught as anything in scifi and is reminiscent of both X-Files (the author's stated inspiration) and even ET: The Extra Terrestrial. Truly an excellent tale strongly told, and very much recommended.

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This week we're looking at a tale of karmic suspense that takes place at least in part at sea and shows the commonalities and differences between cruising and yachting quite well. This week we're looking at The Ex-Husband by Karen Hamilton.

Karmic Suspense At Sea. This book is a mystery/ suspense set partly in the UK and partly (or pretty well fully, in its back half) at sea mostly in the Caribbean and even one Alaska season. The dual timeline approach is used here to show the suspense of someone stalking our narrator with information she doesn't want known and which they shouldn't have in the present timeline, with the second timeline being "18 months ago" when her world came crashing down. Except that the 18 months ago timeline is filled at least as much with the entire backstory of how she got to that point as well. This tale is an interesting blend of both cruising and yachting, which are very different experiences. Even though the largest megayachts (such as the Azzam) and the smaller cruise ships (such as Windstar Cruise Lines' Wind Surf) are roughly the same size, with cruising you're usually with a few hundred (at least, it can be closer to 5,000+) strangers + up to 2,000 or so crew members whereas with yachting you're usually with no more than a few dozen people you're at least tangentially associated with - even if only through a common acquaintance - and no more than a hundred or so staff. Also, the onboard

Solid Exposition Of The End Of An Era. This is one of those that as a Son of the South - and of a region in particular that literally still bears the scars of that war criminal terrorist b*stard

Solid Tomboy Romance. And because it *is* a romance... yes, a wedding is mentioned late in the book, and b