Welcome to the blog tour for The Wars Between US by J.A. Boulet. Read on for an excerpt and a chance to win a $15 Amazon gift card! The Wars Between Us (The Olason Chronicles) Publication Date: June 18th, 2021 Genre: Historical Fiction/ Historical Romance Meet Zachary Olason, a bad boy struggling on the brink... Continue Reading →
The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn – Review #Bridgerton
Well look at me becoming addicted to this Bridgerton book series, even though Anthony was not my favourite character... 1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And in all truth, why should he?... Continue Reading →
Review of Zorro by Isabel Allende
You know that wonderful feeling of getting lost in a story? That book you think about even when you’re separated from the pages. That book you can’t wait to curl up with each day and get to the next part of the story. The book that makes you slow down your reading speed because you... Continue Reading →
Review of Jackaby by William Ritter
“Sherlock Holmes crossed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” —Chicago TribuneNewly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but... Continue Reading →
Review of Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas
This month for the romance book reading challenge the theme was historical romance. One of the prompts was ‘a Lisa Kleypas’ novel. I’d heard of the author before but never read any of her books, so I took the opportunity to try one. Leslie, host of this challenge, recommends the Wallflower series. After reading the... Continue Reading →
Review of A Poisonous Journey by Malia Zaidi
I’d been meaning to start this series for some time and finally got around to it this month. Historical cozies can be quite entertaining and educational too. I did not enjoy the book as much as I thought I would have, but still it offered a very informative ride. The year is 1925, a time... Continue Reading →
Musings on From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon
Bookworms are an odd breed. We love reading. We love getting lost in a book. We love reading a story even when every page, every paragraph make our hearts hurt. I felt anxious each time I returned to this story. My nerves... chest tight… stomach churning… oh my goodness. Several times I thought I should... Continue Reading →
Review of the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo… just wow. I read so many fantastic reviews of this book and noted how highly recommended it was, so I was more than a little curious about it. I can most decidedly say I agree with the hype. By the way, did anyone else’s mind ever wonder over to Elizabeth... Continue Reading →
Review of The Last Homecoming by Dan Chabot #15BooksForChristmas #ChristmasReadingChallenge
HOME IS WHERE THE HEARTSTRINGS ARE… Three troubled strangers gather on Christmas Eve to say farewell to a doomed old house, the secure shelter and refuge where each of them grew up over the course of 90 years. They all have warm, golden memories of youthful, magical Christmases here, and of the Rockwell-esque small town... Continue Reading →
Review of Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history. The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide... Continue Reading →