Category: Review

Review: By Book or By Crook by Eva Gates

My To-Be Read List is a meme hosted by Because Reading is Better Than Real Life where at the beginning of the month visitors can choose which book I’ll be reading this month. On the first saturday of a month the poll will be up, then on the second saturday of the month I’ll announce the book that won and on the last saturday of the month I’ll post my review of the book. By Book or By Crook (Lighthouse Library Mystery #1) by Eva Gates Blurb: Get bound up in murder in the first Lighthouse Library mystery! For ten […]

Posted February 27, 2016 by Lola in My To-Be Read List, Mystery, Review / 22 Comments

Review: Amanda Lester and the Purple Rainbow Puzzle by Paula Berinstein

Amanda Lester and the Purple Rainbow Puzzle (Amanda Lester, Detective #3) by Paula Berinstein Blurb: Purple rainbows, a mysterious crypt, and pots of gold . . . Things are not going well for Amanda and the secret detective school. A priceless artifact has disappeared, a dangerous hacker is manipulating matter, and zombies are being seen all over the Lake District. Then the real trouble starts. When her cousins go missing and her friend Clive is kidnapped, Amanda is forced to turn to someone she’d rather not deal with: her old boyfriend Scapulus Holmes. But then he vanishes too. Now’s she’s […]

Posted February 24, 2016 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 19 Comments

Review: Happily Ever After by Jen Meyers

Happily Ever After (Happily Ever After #1) by Jen Meyers blurb: For wedding planner Everly Vaughn, her best friend’s high-profile Caribbean island wedding could be her big break. The good news? She’s starting her own business. The bad news? Well… One client. The wedding of the season. Twelve days to pull it off. No staff. A bride who’s been engaged four times but never makes it down the aisle. And the bride’s brother who she’s trying desperately to resist…to no avail. What could possibly go wrong? (Seriously? Absolutely everything.) My Review: I received a copy in exchange for an honest […]

Posted February 23, 2016 by Lola in Contemporary, Coyer, Review, Romance / 12 Comments

Review: Tea with Milk and Murder by H.Y. Hanna

Tea with Milk and Murder (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #2) by H.Y. Hanna Blurb; While at an Oxford cocktail party, tearoom owner Gemma Rose overhears a sinister conversation minutes before a University student is fatally poisoned. Could there be a connection? And could her best friend Cassie’s new boyfriend have anything to do with the murder? Gemma decides to start her own investigation, helped by the nosy ladies from her Oxfordshire village and her old college flame, CID detective Devlin O’Connor. But her mother is causing havoc at Gemma’s quaint English tearoom and her best friend is furious at her snooping… […]

Posted February 22, 2016 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 12 Comments

Review: His Kind of Cowgirl by Karen Rock

His Kind of Cowgirl by Karen Rock Blurb: Would he still love her…if he knew? Tanner Hayes smashed Claire’s life to pieces when he chose the rodeo over her ten years ago. And now he’d wrecked her truck! Fantastic. She’d lost her husband, the family ranch was mired in debt, her father was recuperating from a stroke and her son was being bullied. Why not throw a reckless bull rider into the mix? All she’d wanted was a safe, stable life. But with Tanner back in town—and staying on her ranch—nothing was safe, or under control. Not the feelings she’d […]

Posted February 20, 2016 by Lola in Contemporary, Coyer, Review, Romance / 10 Comments

Review: Truths We Tell by Brenda St. John Brown

Truths We Tell (The Truth Series #2) by Brenda St. John Brown Blurb: Ella Ingraham almost falls for Josh Devereaux’s easy charm and effortless smile. God knows, she wants to. He’s made her feel more than anyone has in a long time, both in and out of bed. But one phone call changes everything. Especially when the truth about Josh is on the other end of that call. Now Ella isn’t sure which is worse – Josh lying to her about his past, or the fact she can’t stop thinking about him anyway. Not that he’s making it easy. Josh […]

Posted February 17, 2016 by Lola in Contemporary, Coyer, Review, Romance, Suspense / 8 Comments

Review: A Scone to Die for by H.Y. Hanna

A Scone to Die For (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #1) by H.Y. Hanna Blurb: When an American tourist is murdered with a scone in Gemma Rose’s quaint Oxfordshire tearoom, she suddenly finds herself apron-deep in a mystery involving long-buried secrets from Oxford’s past. Armed with her insider knowledge of the University and with the help of four nosy old ladies from the village (not to mention a cheeky little tabby cat named Muesli), Gemma sets out to solve the mystery—all while dealing with her matchmaking mother and the return of her old college love, Devlin O’Connor, now a dashing CID detective. […]

Posted February 15, 2016 by Lola in Coyer, Mystery, Review / 18 Comments