Lola’s Ramblings: What makes for a 5 star book and my recent lack of them

Lola’s Ramblings is a feature on my blog Lola’s Reviews where I ramble on about a book related or a non-book related topic. These are discussion type of posts where I talk about a topic and readers can weigh in on the topic in the comments. Usually these posts are everything that doesn’t fall under any standard header, like tours, cover reveals, memes, challenges, recaps or reviews. Lola’s Ramblings posts are discussions of a certain topic and my point of view on them. The banner for this feature is designed by Michelle from Limabean Designs. Today I wanted to tackle […]

Posted May 19, 2016 by Lola in Lola's Ramblings / 24 Comments

Review: Two Down, Bun To Go by H.Y. Hanna

Two Down, Bun To Go (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #3) by H.Y. Hanna Blurb; A sinister phone call in the middle of the night throws tearoom owner, Gemma Rose, straight into the heart of a new murder mystery–this time with her friend, Seth, arrested as the key suspect! The grisly killing in the cloisters of an old Oxford college points to a bitter feud within the University–but Gemma finds unexpected clues popping up in her tiny Cotswolds village. Meanwhile, her love life is in turmoil as Gemma struggles to decide between eminent doctor, Lincoln Green, and sexy CID detective, Devlin O’Connor… […]

Posted May 18, 2016 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 16 Comments

Review: Faerie Blood by Emma L Adams

Faerie Blood (The Changeling Chronicles #1) by Emma L. Adams Blurb; I’m Ivy Lane, and if I never see another faerie again, it’ll be too soon. Twenty years after the faeries came and destroyed the world as we knew it, I use my specialist skills to keep rogue faeries in line and ensure humans and their magically gifted neighbours can coexist (relatively) peacefully. Nobody knows those skills came from the darkest corner of Faerie itself. When a human child disappears, replaced with a faerie changeling, I have to choose between taking the safe road or exposing my own history with […]

Posted May 16, 2016 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 18 Comments

Sunday Post #178

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? We had some really warm weather here this week, somehow the start of summer is always a bit difficult for me. I always feel grumpy and annoyed and I don’t have much energy and I sleep bad because of the heat. It still turned out to be a […]

Posted May 15, 2016 by Lola in Sunday Post / 42 Comments

My To-Be Read List #21: the winner

My To-Be Read List is a meme hosted by Because Reading is Better Than Real Life where at the beginning of the month visitors can choose which book I’ll be reading this month. On the first saturday of a month the poll will be up, then on the second saturday of the month I’ll announce the book that won and on the last saturday of the month I’ll post my review of the book. This month’s poll went differently than I had expected, I has expected Ancient Magic to get more votes and didn’t expect Reining in Murder to do […]

Posted May 14, 2016 by Lola in My To-Be Read List, Sci-Fi / 28 Comments

Lola’s Kitchen: Mashed Potatoes with Sauerkraut and Lentils 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. Growing up I never liked sauerkraut, here in the Netherlands a common type of dishes is called “Stamppot” it’s basically different veggies […]

Posted May 13, 2016 by Lola in Lola's Kitchen / 12 Comments

Lola’s Ramblings: How Much are You Willing to Pay for a Book?

Posted May 12, 2016 by Lola in Lola's Ramblings / 40 Comments