Sunday Post #634

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? I didn’t have as much energy this week, but I somehow got everything done that I wanted. I struggled with some severe muscle pain later in the week that almost turned into a migraine, but managed to prevent that by taking painkillers in time. I did a bit […]

Posted February 9, 2025 by Lola in Sunday Post / 10 Comments

Review: Ghosts of the Opera by Janna Ruth

Ghosts of the Opera (Parisian Ghosts #4) by Janna Ruth My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Age Category: New Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Love, murder, and deceit at the opera—in Paris, even the ghosts have to play their parts. Betrayed by my family, abandoned by my boyfriend, and on the ghost police’s black list—I’ve hit rock bottom. To escape GoPol, I have to pretend I’ve lost my ability to see ghosts, and worse, fake a romance with Sébastien, the last person I want to get cosy with. Easier said than done. We can’t even enjoy a night […]

Posted February 7, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 6 Comments

Review: All Chaos for Thieves by Laura Greenwood

All Chaos for Thieves (Scales of Justice #0.5) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy/ Mythology Age Category: Young Adult/ New Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Sometimes a bit of thievery is the only way to live. Rera does what she has to in order to survive, even when that means doing something that could damn her soul – robbing a tomb. But nothing is as straightforward as it seems, and Rera’s conflicting feelings only deepen the further she gets involved with the London underworld. Can she escape the eyes of the goddess of justice who […]

Posted February 5, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Mythology, Review / 4 Comments

Review: Secrets, Songbirds, and Succulents by Iris March

Secrets, Songbirds, and Succulents (Succulent Sleuth Series #3) by Iris March My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: The annual Buckeye Trail Town Festival. A trail construction site. And one dead naturalist. The charming town of Hawthorn Heights is celebrating its connection to the Buckeye Trail with a weekend-long town festival. When a local naturalist is found dead at the bottom of a ravine off the trail, amateur sleuth and garden center manager Molly Green finds herself tangled in a murder investigation – again. As the Trail Festival concludes, Molly unearths unexpected […]

Posted February 3, 2025 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 8 Comments

Sunday Post #633

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 it was back to my normal lower amount of energy levels, which was a bit of a shame. I wrote another new discussion post and still have to finish another one that’s only half done currently. I also published a new discussion post this week about […]

Posted February 2, 2025 by Lola in Sunday Post / 12 Comments

Lola’s Ramblings: 10 Opening Lines From Books I Read

For today’s post I want to share some opening lines I liked from books that I read. Thanks to Kit from Metaphors and Moonlight for giving me the idea for this post. I looked at some of the first lines of books I read in the past year or two and compiled them in this post. For this post I always looked at the opening line of the first chapter and ignored prefaces or prologues if the book had them. It was fun looking at opening lines and finding some that would be fun to share and I also realized […]

Posted February 1, 2025 by Lola in Lola's Ramblings / 6 Comments

Review: Ghosts of the Resistance by Janna Ruth

Ghosts of the Resistance (Parisian Ghosts #3) by Janna Ruth My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Age Category: New Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: I’ve given the ghosts everything. Now they’re coming for my powers. All my life, I’ve talked to ghosts, helped them fulfil their last wishes, and made friends with them. I thought I had a good grip on the afterlife. Boy, was I wrong. There are things afoot in the beyond that make my nightmares have nightmares. After wiping a powerful ghost from existence, his followers are out for blood. My blood. As if that […]

Posted January 31, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 4 Comments