Tag: Adult

Review: Coffee, Milk & Spider Silk by Coyote J.M. Edwards

Coffee, Milk & Spider Silk (Embervein Emporia #1) by Coyote J.M. Edwards My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Age Category: Adult Type of romance: no romance Blurb: What should a battle-worn 11-foot tall drider do when she’s retiring from the Ember Guard and looking for a big change? Open a cafe, of course! Unfortunately, Gwen’s skills are highly specialized—she can contain a magical anomaly to protect the innocent without blinking, but taking inventory and tracking profits makes her sweat bullets. It’s not long before she wonders if patrolling the streets of Embervein wasn’t a safer bet. Help comes in […]

Posted February 21, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 0 Comments

Review: Knot for Sale by Ember Blaze

Knot for Sale (The Packverse #3) by Ember Blaze My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Omegaverse Age Category: Adult Type of romance: Polyamory Blurb: I crossed an ocean to escape my family, and it still wasn’t far enough. After fleeing from London to New York, I reinvented myself. I was no longer Emma Huntwell, the orphaned omega daughter of a murdered crime syndicate boss. Instead, I became Emma Hope, a high-powered runway model with a thriving career, hiding in plain sight as a beta. Now my past is catching up to me in the form of threatening text messages and disappearing […]

Posted February 19, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: The Vanishing Type by Ellery Adams

The Vanishing Type (Secret, Book, & Scone Society #5) by Ellery Adams narrated by Cris Dukehart My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: In this fifth installment of the Secret, Book, and Scone Society series, bookshop owner, bibliotherapist, and occasional sleuth Nora Pennington must enlist the help of her brilliant, brassy librarian friend Bobbie to unravel the connection between The Scarlet Letter, an obscure 19th century writer, and a dead hiker… While January snow falls outside in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, Nora Pennington is encouraging customers to cozy up indoors with a […]

Posted February 14, 2025 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Review: Rite of Blood and Patience by Laura Greenwood

Rite Of Blood And Patience (House Of Blood And Roses #4) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Fantasy Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Beatrice never expected waiting for her wedding was going to be hard. Beatrice’s life has gone from complicated to worse while she juggles her growing relationship with a prince with learning how to navigate court life, and mastering some of the basics she never learned as a child. But even if her relationship with Linc is getting stronger by the day, it’s causing problems with her brother, and he’s not about […]

Posted February 12, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 6 Comments

Review: The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong

The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Age Category: Adult Type of romance: no romance Blurb: A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this warm and wonderful debut fantasy, perfect for readers of Travis Baldree and Sangu Mandanna. Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells “small” fortunes: whether it will hail next week; which boy the barmaid will kiss; when the cow will calve. She knows from bitter experience that big fortunes come with big consequences… Even if […]

Posted February 10, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 6 Comments

Review: Secrets, Songbirds, and Succulents by Iris March

Secrets, Songbirds, and Succulents (Succulent Sleuth Series #3) by Iris March My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: The annual Buckeye Trail Town Festival. A trail construction site. And one dead naturalist. The charming town of Hawthorn Heights is celebrating its connection to the Buckeye Trail with a weekend-long town festival. When a local naturalist is found dead at the bottom of a ravine off the trail, amateur sleuth and garden center manager Molly Green finds herself tangled in a murder investigation – again. As the Trail Festival concludes, Molly unearths unexpected […]

Posted February 3, 2025 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 8 Comments

Review: Classified as Murder by Miranda James

Classified as Murder (Cat in the Stacks #2) by Miranda James narrated by Erin Bennett My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Librarian Charlie Harris and his cat Diesel must catalog a killer in this mystery in the New York Times bestselling Cat in the Stacks series. Suspecting that someone is stealing from him, the aging and eccentric James Delacorte wants Charlie to do an inventory on his rare book collection. Soon after they begin, Delacorte is found dead at his desk, leaving Charlie with the bigger task of solving his murder. […]

Posted January 29, 2025 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments