Sunday Post #558

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 went a bit better than the last one, but a lot of the things we are dealing with still aren’t resolved. After someone looked at our kitchen sink that is clogged they said another company had to resolve it, but it didn’t get put through correctly […]

Posted August 27, 2023 by Lola in Sunday Post / 14 Comments

Review: Spines and Slaughter by A.C.F. Bookens

Spines and Slaughter (Poe Baxter Books #5) A.C.F. Bookens My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Sometimes the demons of stories take on human faces. When Poe Baxter and her friend Beattie travel to Lima, Peru, to hunt down a rare collection of Peruvian folktales, the two women find themselves mixed up in a game of deceit that echoes the legend of the chullachaqui. Soon, they’re having trouble telling truth from lie, even when their lives are at stake. Can Poe and Beattie discern what is real from what is myth before it’s […]

Posted August 25, 2023 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Review: The Sphinx Pride by Arizona Tape

The Sphinx Pride (The Griffin Sanctuary #5) Arizona Tape My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Fantasy Age Category: New Adult Type of romance: FF Blurb: What’s a sphinx pride to do without their leader? New arrivals have apprentice veterinarian Charlotte revisit an old friend, the long distance in her relationship helps her make up her mind about how she really feels about Felicity, and a pride of royal sphinxes put her abilities and heart to the test as Charlotte works out if she’s right for the job as a veterinarian at the Griffin Sanctuary. **** The Sphinx Pride is book […]

Posted August 23, 2023 by Lola in Contemporary, Fantasy, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Mateer by Veronica Scott

Mateer (Sectors New Allies #2) Veronica Scott My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Science Fiction Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Megan Garrison, a doctor at the Sectors Amarcae 7 colony, goes to sleep one night as usual only to wake up in her nightgown, strapped to a table in an alien lab, destined to be the subject of terrifying experiments. Granted a brief reprieve, Megan and the other kidnapped humans are released in the middle of a forestlike enclosure on this unknown world and told to survive as best they can for now. Her only hope is […]

Posted August 21, 2023 by Lola in Review, Romance, Sci-Fi / 4 Comments

Sunday Post #557

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 not a good week, so many things not going well. My boyfriend got a new medicine and got concerning side effects, so he stopped with those and had to visit the doctor, more tests will take place next week to figure out why this happened. Besides […]

Posted August 20, 2023 by Lola in Sunday Post / 18 Comments

Review: Vinyl Resting Place by Olivia Blacke

Vinyl Resting Place (Record Shop Mystery #1) by Olivia Blacke narrated by Nicol Zanzarella My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: First in a new series by Olivia Blacke, Vinyl Resting Place follows three sisters who discover that opening a family business can be murder. When Juni Jessup and her sisters Tansy and Maggie put all their beans in one basket to open Sip & Spin Records, a record-slash-coffee shop in Cedar River, Texas, they knew there could be some scratches on the track, but no one was expecting to find a […]

Posted August 17, 2023 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Shadow Beasts by Nellie H. Steele

Shadow Beasts (Shelving Magic #1) Nellie H. Steele My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: If Paige isn’t careful, her new job could land her in an early grave. Paige Turner’s zero-balance bank account demands she take on a new job, but she never expected it would be as Shadow Harbor’s newest librarian. Now the unlucky orphan is learning it’s not books she’ll be shelving…but magic. Dark, dangerous, deadly magic. Her new position requires she keep the supernatural subworld at bay while retrieving and archiving magical artifacts from around the globe. If […]

Posted August 15, 2023 by Lola in Contemporary, Fantasy, Review / 2 Comments