Category: Review

Review: Death by a Thousand Sips by Gretchen Rue

Death by a Thousand Sips (Witches’ Brew Mystery #2) Gretchen Rue My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Phoebe Winchester is back on the case in Raven Creek when a body is discovered at an estate sale in Gretchen Rue’s second book in the Witches’ Brew mystery series, perfect for fans of Laura Childs and Cleo Coyle. Ever since she moved to Raven Creek, Washington, Phoebe Winchester knew she would have to grow accustomed to having a lot on her plate. She’s beginning to make the Victorian manor she inherited from her […]

Posted September 5, 2023 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Review: Capture the Sun by Jessie Mihalik

Capture the Sun (Starlight’s Shadow #3) Jessie Mihalik My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Science Fiction Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Acclaimed author Jessie Mihalik returns with the thrilling conclusion to her Starlight’s Shadow trilogy. An intergalactic thief must join forces with the charming teleporter who stole her last job—and may now be her only hope for saving her former crew. As a recovery specialist, Lexi Bowen’s jobs typically require more trickery and thievery than honest work. Her former captain might not approve of her flexible morals, but stealing artifacts for rich assholes pays the bills, and […]

Posted August 31, 2023 by Lola in Review, Romance, Sci-Fi / 4 Comments

Review: Slashing Through the Snow by Jacqueline Frost

Slashing Through the Snow (Christmas Tree Farm Mystery #3) by Jacqueline Frost narrated by Allyson Ryan My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Maine innkeeper Holly White returns to sleuth another seasonal slaying in the third Christmas Tree Farm mystery from author Jacqueline Frost. Reindeer Games Christmas Tree Farm is going into the B&B business, and Holly White is looking forward to her new role as innkeeper. Even better, Mistletoe, Maine’s sheriff, Evan Gray, has deputized his little sister Libby to help Holly wrap presents for Mistletoe’s toy drive. But a cold […]

Posted August 29, 2023 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 0 Comments

Review: Spines and Slaughter by A.C.F. Bookens

Spines and Slaughter (Poe Baxter Books #5) A.C.F. Bookens My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Sometimes the demons of stories take on human faces. When Poe Baxter and her friend Beattie travel to Lima, Peru, to hunt down a rare collection of Peruvian folktales, the two women find themselves mixed up in a game of deceit that echoes the legend of the chullachaqui. Soon, they’re having trouble telling truth from lie, even when their lives are at stake. Can Poe and Beattie discern what is real from what is myth before it’s […]

Posted August 25, 2023 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Review: The Sphinx Pride by Arizona Tape

The Sphinx Pride (The Griffin Sanctuary #5) Arizona Tape My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Fantasy Age Category: New Adult Type of romance: FF Blurb: What’s a sphinx pride to do without their leader? New arrivals have apprentice veterinarian Charlotte revisit an old friend, the long distance in her relationship helps her make up her mind about how she really feels about Felicity, and a pride of royal sphinxes put her abilities and heart to the test as Charlotte works out if she’s right for the job as a veterinarian at the Griffin Sanctuary. **** The Sphinx Pride is book […]

Posted August 23, 2023 by Lola in Contemporary, Fantasy, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Mateer by Veronica Scott

Mateer (Sectors New Allies #2) Veronica Scott My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Science Fiction Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Megan Garrison, a doctor at the Sectors Amarcae 7 colony, goes to sleep one night as usual only to wake up in her nightgown, strapped to a table in an alien lab, destined to be the subject of terrifying experiments. Granted a brief reprieve, Megan and the other kidnapped humans are released in the middle of a forestlike enclosure on this unknown world and told to survive as best they can for now. Her only hope is […]

Posted August 21, 2023 by Lola in Review, Romance, Sci-Fi / 4 Comments

Review: Vinyl Resting Place by Olivia Blacke

Vinyl Resting Place (Record Shop Mystery #1) by Olivia Blacke narrated by Nicol Zanzarella My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: First in a new series by Olivia Blacke, Vinyl Resting Place follows three sisters who discover that opening a family business can be murder. When Juni Jessup and her sisters Tansy and Maggie put all their beans in one basket to open Sip & Spin Records, a record-slash-coffee shop in Cedar River, Texas, they knew there could be some scratches on the track, but no one was expecting to find a […]

Posted August 17, 2023 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 2 Comments