Tag: coyer 2021

Review: Ruby Red Herring by Tracy Gardner

Ruby Red Herring (An Avery Ayers Antique Mystery #1) by Tracy Gardner My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: In this Avery Ayers Antique Mystery series debut, perfect for fans of Ellery Adams and Jane K. Cleland, an antiques appraiser hunts a missing gem while probing her parents’ deaths. After her parents’ deaths, Avery Ayers takes over the family business, Antiquities & Artifacts Appraised, from the home office in Lilac Grove and a branch in Manhattan. Now living back at home with her younger sister Tilly and their newly moved-in, eccentric Aunt […]

Posted June 8, 2021 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 5 Comments

Review: Hellbound Guilds & Other Misdirections by Annette Marie and Rob Jacobsen

Hellbound Guilds & Other Misdirections (The Guild Codex: Warped #2) by Annette Marie and Rob Jacobsen My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Agent Kit Morris. Has a nice ring, doesn’t it? It’s a big step up from “wanted criminal” or “that weird con-artist guy with weirder psychic powers,” both of which recently applied to me. But my promotion to MagiPol agent comes with a few drawbacks. First, supremely talented and effortlessly gorgeous Agent Lienna Shen won’t agree to a dinner date with me. Second, my new assignment has pitted me against […]

Posted June 5, 2021 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 3 Comments

Review: Fronds and Enemies by H.Y. Hanna

Fronds and Enemies (The English Cottage Garden Mysteries #5) by H.Y. Hanna My Rating: 2 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Spring has come at last with cheerful daffodils and plump crocus blooms, and Poppy is hoping that the new season will magically resurrect the cottage garden nursery she’s inherited. But with her stock failing to grow and a mysterious “peeping Tom” stalking the village, she’s got her gardening gloves full… and that’s even before her visit to the local doctor ends with her stumbling on a dead body! Then her friend and neighbour […]

Posted June 2, 2021 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Of Kindness and Kilowatts by Susan Kaye Quinn

Of Kindness and Kilowatts (Nothing is Promised #3) by Susan Kaye Quinn My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Science Fiction/ Hopepunk Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Humanity is trapped in a loop. As the world heats, it takes more energy to keep humanity from dying—a feedback loop that makes net-zero carbon increasingly impossible to reach. Akemi’s job on the Public Utilities Commission has its own daily disasters—making sure the infrastructure of civilization keeps running is the most thankless job on the planet. When a double event hits—heatwave plus viral breakout—keeping the power on is an all-out battle. It […]

Posted May 31, 2021 by Lola in Review, Sci-Fi / 4 Comments

Review: The Trouble with Order by Jaxon Knight

The Trouble with Order (Fairyland Romances #5) by Jaxon Knight My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MM Blurb: Opposites attract, right? Link’s past was difficult but he learned to skim through life and have things work out right, Teayang has worked for what he has and sacrificed things along the way. When Taeyang is cast as Lord Order, the villain opposite Link’s fun-loving Fairy Mischief, there’s instant chemistry that can’t be denied. Outside of acting at Fairyland, Link’s life is falling apart and he has no idea how to handle it alone. But […]

Posted May 25, 2021 by Lola in Contemporary, Review, Romance / 0 Comments

Review: Sight Seering by Ada Bell

Sight Seering (A Shady Grove Mystery #3) by Ada Bell My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: A Seer in the City… While visiting an estate sale to pick up new items for Missing Pieces, Aly gets hit with a surprise: the elderly homeowner didn’t have a heart attack–she was murdered. Aly’s got the evidence in her hands, and the killer is offering to sell it to her. Time to make a deal, then call the police. If only anyone believed her. Miriam Peabody was in her 70s and appeared to […]

Posted May 21, 2021 by Lola in Fantasy, Mystery, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Hanged by a Thread by A.C.F Bookens

Hanged By A Thread (Stitches In Crime #3) by A.C.F. Bookens My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: Blurb: The promise of old printer’s trays has her heart aflutter, but it nearly stops when she finds a body at the bottom of the elevator shaft. When salvage expert and historian Paisley Sutton heard that a 19th century printing press was still in the old warehouse that was scheduled for demolition, she knew she had to get in there. But when her dreams of a salvage windfall lead her on the genealogical hunt for the […]

Posted May 19, 2021 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments