Review: The Mousse Wonderful Time of Year by H.Y. Hanna

Merry Christmas to everyone’s who celebrates it! For today’s post I decided to go with a Christmas themed book for review. This cozy mystery had a large focus on Christmas festivities and it was a fun way to learn more about a British Christmas. I hope you all have a wonderful day! The Mousse Wonderful Time of Year (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #10) by H.Y. Hanna My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Tearoom sleuth Gemma Rose is looking forward to a holiday filled with delicious Yuletide treats, time with friends and family, […]

Posted December 25, 2019 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 6 Comments

Review: Stitches and Witches by Nancy Warren

Stitches and Witches (Vampire Knitting Club #2) by Nancy Warren Narrated by Sarah Zimmerman My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Dropping stitches and catching killers When an older gentleman keels over in his scones and tea at the Elderflower Tea Shop in Oxford—a victim of poison—Lucy Swift and her band of undead amateur detectives are on the case. Elderflower Tea Shop is next door to Cardinal Woolsey’s, the yarn shop Lucy runs and home to the late-night Vampire Knitting Club. The tea shop owners are a pair of octogenarian spinsters […]

Posted December 23, 2019 by Lola in Fantasy, Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Sunday Post #366

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. What happened this week? This was another busy week. I worked ahead a bit, so I can take some time off during the next two weeks, so that meant this week was extra busy. I am a bit tired and hope I can relax more next week. I mostly did a lot […]

Posted December 22, 2019 by Lola in Sunday Post / 14 Comments

Lola’s Kitchen: Jackfruit Curry Salad Recipe

Lola’s Kitchen is a feature on Lola’s Reviews where I talk about all things related to food, cooking and baking. These posts can be recipe posts, tens list posts about food or recipes or more discussion type posts about food. I love cooking and spend some time in the kitchen almost every day, so I wanted to give it a place on my blog as well. The banner for this feature is designed by Michelle from Limabean Designs. I’ve been seeing some recipes around with jackfruit and eventually decided to give one of them a try. This jackfruit salad with […]

Posted December 20, 2019 by Lola in Lola's Kitchen / 4 Comments

Review: The Queen’s Advantage by Jessie Mihalik

The Queen’s Advantage (Rogue Queen #2) by Jessie Mihalik Narrated by Rachel Dulude My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Science Fiction Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: When Queen Samara Rani fulfills the promise she made to Emperor Valentin Kos to visit his court and meet with his advisors, she knows they won’t welcome her with open arms, especially when she’s been tasked with discovering the traitors within their ranks—traitors she tricked out of five million credits. As soon as Samara begins her investigation it becomes clear that Valentin’s advisors want her gone and they aren’t picky about […]

Posted December 18, 2019 by Lola in Review, Romance, Sci-Fi / 6 Comments

Review: The Carnelian Fox by Kay MacLeod

The Carnelian Fox (Maiyamon #1) by Kay MacLeod My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Fantasy/ Gamelit Age Category: Young Adult/ New Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Monsters don’t exist. At least, they didn’t until we created them. Maiyamon was once merely a game. Now it’s a global reality. After dozens of hit monster collecting games raked in billions of credits per year, it was inevitable someone would create real ones. Unfortunately, it wasn’t so obvious how many people would dump them in the wild… Sam Wentworth grew up with nothing. She’s worked tirelessly just to get through college and earn […]

Posted December 16, 2019 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 6 Comments

Sunday Post #365

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. What happened this week? This was a pretty decent week, not super good, but also no bad things that happened. It just didn’t always go as smoothly, still a bit of stress and I was a bit tired again, but it’s going a bit better now. We got out Christmas tree set-up […]

Posted December 15, 2019 by Lola in Sunday Post / 14 Comments