Review: All For Knot Book Two by Ember Blaze

All for Knot: Book Two (The Packverse #2) by Ember Blaze My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Omegaverse Age Category: Adult Type of romance: Polyamory Blurb: Just when I think I’ve escaped my troubled past, everything around me blows up. My life with the Corbyn pack feels like a fairytale. I have friends, a great job, a hot boyfriend, and a rich, successful pack offering to bond with both of us. But my cheating ex has secrets of his own, and he’ll do whatever it takes to make sure I can’t bring him or his slimeball family down. When he uses […]

Posted December 4, 2024 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 0 Comments

Review: The Whispered Word by Ellery Adams

The Whispered Word (Secret, Book, & Scone Society #2) 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 cozy mystery by a New York Times–bestselling author, a gifted bookstore owner can find the right book for any patron, but can she find a killer? The proprietor of Miracle Books in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, Nora Pennington believes that a well-chosen novel can bring healing and hope. But she and the other members of the Secret, Book, and Scone Society know that sometimes practical help is […]

Posted December 2, 2024 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 3 Comments

Sunday Post #624

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? Still some construction noise this week, although most days it wasn’t too bad, just a few noisier moments. I did struggle with some shoulder pain and headaches this week, every time I thought it was gone it came back again. I did a bit of cleaning as our […]

Posted December 1, 2024 by Lola in Sunday Post / 7 Comments

Review: Slaying at Stanway by A.C.F. Bookens

Slaying at Stanway (Cotswolds Classics #1) by ACF Bookens My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Some weddings end with ‘I do’—this one ends with ‘whodunit? When American ex-pat Nigella Hunt agrees to help her friend with the flowers for a wedding at the grand Stanway Manor, she expects a day of romance and celebration. But when the cantankerous wedding planner is found dead among the roses, the festivities take a deadly twist, and Nigella finds herself caught up in her very first murder mystery. With all eyes on the guests at […]

Posted November 29, 2024 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Deadly Crush by Maddie Day

Deadly Crush (Cece Barton Mystery #2) by Maddie Day My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: It’s the beginning of a new year, and for widowed single mom and recent L.A. transplant to California wine country, Cece Barton, that means green hillsides, flowing streams from winter rains, pruned vineyards—and a murder to solve . . . After a mostly stress-free Christmas with her college-age daughter, and despite enjoying a current budding romance with fellow newcomer, Benjamin Cohen, it’s time for Cece to focus on Vino y Vida, the Colinas wine bar she […]

Posted November 27, 2024 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 2 Comments

Review: The Joy Document by Jennifer McGaha

The Joy Document by Jennifer McGaha My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Non-fiction Memoir Blurb: Once you begin looking for joy, you can find it pretty much anywhere. When Jennifer McGaha’s grandmother was in her late eighties, Jennifer asked her what her favorite age so far had been. “Fifty-five,” her grandmother answered, as though there were something magical about this stage of life, some deeper way of knowing from this vantage point. So, in her own fifty-fifth year, Jennifer began to take note. She jotted down her impressions of simple, everyday things that struck her as beautiful or humorous or intriguing […]

Posted November 25, 2024 by Lola in Non-Fiction, Review / 0 Comments

Sunday Post #623

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? There was again some renovation noise this week, but luckily not too bad. I got startled one day because someone was walking on the scaffolding in front of our windows, not sure what they were doing, but it sure is weird to see someone walking in front of […]

Posted November 24, 2024 by Lola in Sunday Post / 14 Comments