Tag: Adult

Review: When You Had Power by Susan Kaye Quinn

When You Had Power (Nothing is Promised #1) by Susan Kaye Quinn My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Science Fiction/ Hopepunk Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: For better, for worse. In sickness and in health. It’s a legal vow of care for families in 2050, a world beset by waves of climate-driven plagues. Power engineer Lucía Ramirez long ago lost her family to one—she’d give anything to take that vow. The Power Islands give humanity a fighting chance, but tending kelp farms and solar lilies is a lonely job. The housing AI found her a family match, saying […]

Posted November 24, 2020 by Lola in Review, Sci-Fi / 0 Comments

Review: A Flock and a Fluke by Hillary Avis

A Flock and a Fluke (Clucks and Clues Cozy Mysteries #2) by Hillary Avis Narrated by Kitty Hendrix My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: The plot chickens… It’s springtime in Honeytree, and Leona’s pullets are finally laying. Customers are flocking to buy her farm-fresh eggs. But during the town’s Easter Egg Scramble, Leona finds more than hidden treasure when she stumbles on the dead body of the pastor’s wife. And the death isn’t a fluke—it was poison. After Leona’s eggs are blamed for delivering the fatal dose, her customers fly the […]

Posted November 23, 2020 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 1 Comment

Review: Checked In by Teyla Branton

Checked In (Imprints #8) by Teyla Branton My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Suspense Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: A check-in at a bed and breakfast almost turns into a checked-out for Autumn Rain. Autumn Rain hadn’t planned to spend any part of her honeymoon at a bed and breakfast run by her new in-laws, but when her father-in-law comes under suspicion in a man’s sudden disappearance, she and her homicide detective husband are pulled into the investigation. As they search for answers, it becomes clear that someone wanted the missing man out of the picture—and violently […]

Posted November 16, 2020 by Lola in Fantasy, Romance, Suspense / 2 Comments

Review: Falling Into Magic by Elizabeth Pantley

Falling into Magic (Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic #1) by Elizabeth Pantley My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Portal Fantasy/ Paranormal Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: When Hayden was a child, she lost her cat. Adults told her the cat ran away, but she knew the truth. The mirror had taken her. She knew because the mirror had given her a glimpse of an alternate world and had nearly pulled her in, so she was certain the cat had suffered that fate. Twenty years later Hayden discovers the secret of the mirror when she is thrust […]

Posted November 12, 2020 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Deadly Dog Days by Jamie Blair

Deadly Dog Days (A Dog Days Mystery #1) by Jamie Blair narrated by Johanna Parker My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: New to the historic town of Metamora, Indiana, Cameron Cripps-Hayman is looking to make friends with her neighbors. What she isn’t looking for is one of their bodies floating in the canal. When she and her estranged husband, the town sheriff, are both named suspects for the murder, Cameron takes solving the crime into her own hands, teaming up with her eccentric co-workers who dub themselves The Metamora Action Agency. […]

Posted November 6, 2020 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Review: Let’s Connect by Kelly Jensen

Let’s Connect by Kelly Jensen My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MM Blurb: A year after his divorce, Daniel Stroman has decided that he’s too young to die—or fuse permanently with his couch. But when he downloads the dating app “Let’s Connect” and starts dating, his success/fail ratio isn’t encouraging until he gets a connection request from Robin. Everything about Robin’s profile is different, from the bright little bird he’s using as an avatar to the long and thoughtful answers he’s written for the standard questions. He’s witty, funny, and easy to talk […]

Posted November 4, 2020 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: Balanced on the Blade’s Edge by Lindsay Buroker

Balanced on the Blade’s Edge (Dragon Blood #1) by Lindsay Buroker My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Fantasy Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Colonel Ridge Zirkander isn’t the model of military professionalism—he has a tendency to say exactly what’s on his mind, and his record has enough demerits to wallpaper the hull of an airship—but as the best fighter pilot in the Iskandian army, he’s used to a little leniency from his superiors. Until he punches the wrong diplomat in the nose and finds himself issued new orders: take command of a remote prison mine in the […]

Posted October 28, 2020 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 2 Comments