Sunday Post #703

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 week had a lot of those little things not going well. We have a faucet for our dishwasher and one for our laundry machine, the one for the laundry machine has been leaking a little bit for a while, but not too bad, so we didn’t want […]

Posted June 7, 2026 by Lola in Sunday Post / 10 Comments

Review: Crystals and Conspiracies by Beth Dolgner

Crystals and Conspiracies (Crones of a Feather #4) by Beth Dolgner My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: An accused vampire, a disgruntled witch, and dark sorcery. At this magic shop, death has no expiration date. Hazel Underwood and Adeline Beaumont do not get along. But the vampire who runs the local magic store will have to put her trust in Hazel when someone is murdered in the store, and Adeline is blamed for it. A vengeful customer might have framed Adeline, but Hazel begins to hear whispers of something much […]

Posted June 5, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Mystery, Review / 3 Comments

Review: The Corpse by the Creek by Iris March

The Corpse by the Creek (Succulent Sleuth #5) by Iris March My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Volunteer water sampling. Development deals. A dead businessman in the woods. While volunteering with a local stream restoration group, Molly and her husband, Scott, expect to end the day with nothing more to show for it than muddy hiking shoes and water samples. Instead, they stumble upon a dead body left in the woods behind the Buckeye Trail. The victim turns out to be Upton North—an unpopular developer with business ties to half the […]

Posted June 3, 2026 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Review: Pint of No Return by Dana Mentink

Pint of No Return (Shake Shop #1) written by Dana Mentink narrated by Stephanie Nemeth-Parker My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: After her divorce from her thrice-married embezzler husband, Trinidad Jones is finally ready for a fresh start. So when she’s left one of her ex’s businesses in Upper Sprocket, Oregon, she decides to pack up her dog, cash in her settlement, and open her dream business: the Shimmy and Shake Shop, introducing the world to her monster milkshakes. And even with a couple sticky situations underway, namely that the other […]

Posted June 1, 2026 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Sunday Post #702

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? Again my hopes for a calm and relaxing week didn’t quite take form, but we did get some things done, which was nice too. My partner and I tackled cleaning out this small storage area next to our living room this week. When we moved last year we […]

Posted May 31, 2026 by Lola in Sunday Post / 14 Comments

Review: Sea Blooms by H.P. Lane

Sea Blooms by H.P. Lane My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: A heartfelt cozy urban fantasy about family, identity, and fighting for the place you call home. In a modern day San Francisco where magical beings live openly among humans, Odysseus “Oddie” Saltbrook, a merfolk man in his twenties, has built a careful life on land, helping run Maple Street Florals while secretly crafting ocean inspired arrangements in his free time. He tries to live up to the expectations of his traditional merfolk parents while quietly nursing feelings for Lily, his […]

Posted May 29, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 6 Comments

Review: The Fossil Door by Celia Lake

The Fossil Door (Mysterious Powers #2) by Celia Lake My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Historical Fantasy Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Enjoy this kind and gentle historical fantasy romance set in the magical community of Great Britain after the Great War. Rathna has a gift for doorways. When a portal in the Scottish Highlands stops working, she is one of the only Portal Keepers able to travel to investigate. On the other hand, the location presents some challenges. As a London-born Bengali woman, she’s nothing like the villagers. And of course, there’s the worrying question: […]

Posted May 27, 2026 by Lola in Fantasy, Historical, Review, Romance / 5 Comments