Category: Review

Review: Poisoning at the Party by Beth Dolgner

Poisoning at the Party (Nightmare, Arizona #5) by Beth Dolgner narrated by Petrea Burchard My Rating: 5 stars Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Candy, Chaos, and Conjuring in Nightmare, Arizona There’s a new fairy in town, and no one in Nightmare, Arizona, is happy about it. Olivia Kendrick learns why when she and Annabelle team up to help out at the annual Nightmare Fall Festival. When Annabelle is found dead inside the corn maze the night of the festival’s kickoff party, the police don’t think it’s murder. Olivia and her supernatural friends at […]

Posted March 10, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Mystery, Review / 5 Comments

Review: Waiting for Psamathe by Laura Greenwood

Waiting For Psamathe (A Jinx Paranormal Dating Agency Story) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Can a Greek goddess find love for a second time? Psamathe believes she’s already had the love of her life, no matter what other people tell her. But when a Jinx event comes to her hotel, she finds herself on the end of Aphrodite’s meddling, and the love goddess is determined to find her a match. Seal shifter Zale has always admired Sama from afar, but believes she’s out of his reach as […]

Posted March 7, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Mythology, Review, Romance / 3 Comments

Review: Dating and Dragons by Kristy Boyce

Dating and Dragons by Kristy Boyce My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Young Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Quinn Norton is starting over at a new high school and hopes that joining a D&D game will be the trick to making friends. The plan sounds even better when she’s invited into a group that includes Logan Weber, the cute and charming guy she met on her first day of class. But this isn’t your average D&D campaign— this group livestreams their games and enforces strict rules: no phones allowed, and no dating other group members. Quinn […]

Posted March 5, 2025 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 3 Comments

Review: Deckles and Death by A.C.F. Bookens

Deckles and Death (Poe Baxter Books Series #6) by A.C.F. Bookens My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Poe Baxter: book expert, travel enthusiast, and amateur sleuth with a knack for trouble. A rare, signed edition of Midnight’s Children should have been the highlight of Poe’s trip to Mumbai. But when the auction house owner is murdered, and the police point the finger at her, book collecting takes a deadly turn. With a cryptic code hidden in an old book of Marathi folktales, Poe and her friends must unravel a mystery that […]

Posted March 4, 2025 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Review: Practical Rules for Cursed Witches by Kayla Cottingham

Practical Rules for Cursed Witches by Kayla Cottingham My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance Age Category: Young Adult Type of romance: f/f Blurb: From the New York Times bestselling author of My Dearest Darkest comes a cozy fantasy romance about a teen witch who must complete her magical training by breaking a powerful family’s curse. But her own affliction—to never find true love—gets in the way when she falls for the girl she’s trying to save. Magic is in Delilah Bea’s blood. Her absentee father is the world’s most famous cursebreaker, while all the women in her family […]

Posted March 3, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 10 Comments

Review: Poisoned Primrose by Dahlia Donovan

Poisoned Primrose (Motts Cold Case Mystery #1) by Dahlia Donovan My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Meet Motts and the quirky cast of characters in her world. Poisoned Primrose is a quintessential cosy British mystery and an all-round fun story to throw yourself into. Autistic, asexual, and almost forty, Pineapple “Motts” Mottley flees London with her cat and turtle to a quaint cottage in Cornwall. She craves the peace of life in a small village. The dead body buried in her garden isn’t quite what she had in mind, though. Unable […]

Posted February 28, 2025 by Lola in Mystery, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: The City Without End by Kelly Jensen

The City without End (To See the Sun #2) by Kelly Jensen My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Science Fiction Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/m Blurb: In the City Without End, level is everything. The overcity is bright and glittering, the realm of the First Families. As a dutiful son and heir, Cato spends his days crafting the contracts that bind citizens together—but by night, he works to undermine the corrupt system. When his activities come under question, he scrambles to cover his tracks. Then his family arranges a new marriage for him, and Cato must look deeper […]

Posted February 26, 2025 by Lola in Review, Romance, Sci-Fi / 4 Comments