Tag: Audiobook Reading Challenge 2020

Review: A Roost and Arrest by Hillary Avis

Review: A Roost and Arrest by Hillary Avis

A Roost and Arrest (Clucks and Clues Cozy Mysteries #3) by Hillary Avis My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Farmed and dangerous… Leona’s spirits are flying as high as the flags over Honeytree’s Fourth of July Festival. Her fledgling egg business is booming, her new relationship is flourishing, and it’s finally warm enough to put the top down on her convertible. Everything is sunny-side up. But her good mood disappears faster than a speeding pullet when the local beauty queen is shot during the fireworks finale—and the murder is pinned on […]

Posted December 14, 2020 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 2 Comments

Review: A Flock and a Fluke by Hillary Avis

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 / 2 Comments

Review: Deadly Dog Days by Jamie Blair

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: Maybe a Mermaid by Josephine Cameron

Review: Maybe a Mermaid by Josephine Cameron

Maybe a Mermaid by Josephine Cameron narrated by Karissa Vacker My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary/ Magical Realism Age Category: Middle Grade Type of romance: no romance Blurb: A summer romp full of mystery, new friends, and maybe a mermaid! Eleven-year-old Anthoni Gillis is not the kind of kid who believes in fairies, unicorns, or even the word maybe. She’s more of a comic-books girl. So when her mom brings her to Thunder Lake for a summer at the Showboat Resort, she doesn’t believe the local rumors about the Boulay Mermaid. Anthoni has bigger fish to fry. She’s always wanted […]

Posted October 9, 2020 by Lola in Contemporary, Review / 2 Comments

Review: A Cop and a Coop by Hillary Avis

Review: A Cop and a Coop by Hillary Avis

A Cop and a Coop (Clucks and Clues Cozy Mysteries #1) by Hillary Avis Narreted by Kitty Hendrix My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: It’s a mother-clucking murder! When Leona Davis hatches a plan to return to her beloved hometown of Honeytree, Oregon, she hopes to build the egg farm of her dreams and leave behind the marriage of her nightmares. But the yolk’s on her when she breaks ground on her chicken palace and unearths a skeleton in her front yard. It’s clearly fowl play. The bones may be decades […]

Posted September 10, 2020 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Time of My Life by Laura Heffernan

Review: Time of My Life by Laura Heffernan

Time of My Life (Oceanic Dreams #2) by Laura Heffernan My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemproary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: She’s a poor dance teacher. He’s her rich student. If they can overcome their differences, this could be love. Legend says everyone who boards the Oceanic Aphrodite finds love. Janey’s on the ship to teach dance, not for romance. Then she meets Frank. He’s everything Janey isn’t–refined, classy, rich–but his good looks and charm make him undeniably appealing. Unfortunately, he’s also a passenger, which makes him off-limits. When Janey’s partner can’t perform in the end-of-cruise […]

Posted August 17, 2020 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: Baker’s Coven by Nancy Warren

Review: Baker’s Coven by Nancy Warren

Baker’s Coven (Great Witches Baking Show #2) by Nancy Warren Narrated by Hollis McCarthy My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: no romance Blurb: Can she bake a winning cake without getting iced? Competition is hotter than the pre-heated ovens as The Great British Baking Competition moves into cake week. Amateur baker Poppy Wilkinson has a lot to deal with, from learning she has talents she never knew about, to trying to keep cool and bake under pressure. She’s also trying to track down the secrets of her parentage. Meanwhile, she’s saved from […]

Posted July 6, 2020 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 2 Comments