Review: Something Wild & Wonderful by Anita Kelly

Something Wild & Wonderful Anita Kelly My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MM Blurb: Alexei Lebedev’s journey on the Pacific Crest Trail begins with saving a hot stranger from a snake. Alexei was prepared for rattlesnakes, blisters, and months of solitude. What he wasn’t prepared for is outgoing and charistmatic Ben Caravalho, and yet they keep running into each other. It might be coincidence. Then again, maybe there’s a reason the trail keeps bringing them together . . . Ben has made his fair share of bad decisions, and almost all of them […]

Posted August 9, 2023 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 0 Comments

Review: Storm Forged by Lindsay Buroker

Storm Forged (Death Before Dragons #6) by Lindsay Buroker narrated by Vivienne Leheny My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Moving into a rundown Victorian house with a vampire living in the basement isn’t as bad as I thought, but things go from weird to weirder when a badly injured gnome collapses in my back yard. The surprising part? It’s my friend Nin’s long-lost grandfather. Since he’s unconscious, we can’t figure out who’s chasing him, or where he’s been all these years, but if we can’t help him, he’ll die. To make […]

Posted August 7, 2023 by Lola in Contemporary, Fantasy, Review / 6 Comments

Sunday Post #555

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 started off pretty decent, but then I got a bad migraine later in the week and didn’t get much done then. The medicines hardly seemed to work this time, but I was slowly starting to feel better on Saturday evening when I was writing this post. […]

Posted August 6, 2023 by Lola in Sunday Post / 20 Comments

Review: Shifter’s Truth by Laura Greenwood and Arizona Tape

Shifter’s Truth (Purple Oasis #5) Laura Greenwood and Arizona Tape My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Paranormal Romance Age Category: New Adult Type of romance: FF Blurb: Stella has never felt ready to accept the shifter side of herself…until now. Stella has always struggled with accepting her inner self, which is why she never went through her shifter ceremony and got her tattoo. But now she’s determined the time is right, she can’t get the bewitching tattoo artist out of her head. As one of the resident tattoo artists at Purple Oasis, Carly has done plenty of shifter tattoos before, […]

Posted August 3, 2023 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: In the Market for Murder by T.E. Kinsey

In The Market For Murder (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #2) by T.E. Kinsey narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Historical Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: no romance Blurb: Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom pie. Once again, it is up to Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, to solve the case. Armed with wit and whimsy, not to mention […]

Posted August 1, 2023 by Lola in Historical, Mystery, Review / 0 Comments

Sunday Post #554

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 am still struggling with lower energy levels. I like to say it’s going a little bit better, but it’s slow progress. I took a day off this week so I could go out with my partner and we had lunch in a nearby restaurant, which was busier […]

Posted July 30, 2023 by Lola in Sunday Post / 14 Comments

Review: The Peacock and the Wallflower by Laura Greenwood

The Peacock and the Wallflower (The Shifter Season #2) Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Historical Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Esther’s expectations from the Season are low, even if her parents seem intent on controlling every aspect of it, including who she might marry. Peacock shifter Laurence has grown tired of the attention being one of the most desirable catches of the marriage market and wants nothing more than to be left in peace. When the two of them enter a fake courtship with the intention of taking attention away from them, they […]

Posted July 26, 2023 by Lola in Fantasy, Historical, Review, Romance / 4 Comments