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

Sunday Post #556

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 didn’t go as smoothly as I had hoped. I got a few of those things done that need to get done once in a while like cleaning the washing machine. And the water in our kitchen sink isn’t flowing away as quickly, so I tried to […]

Posted August 13, 2023 by Lola in Sunday Post / 18 Comments

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