Category: Review

Review: Rite of Blood and Bonds by Laura Greenwood

Rite of Blood and Bonds (House of Blood and Roses #2) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Fantasy Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Learning how to be a vampire is only half of Beatrice’s problems. Adjusting to life as a vampire noble is harder than Beatrice thought it would be, even if she has a handsome and charming vampire to teach her history and help her understand the complexities of court life. As Beatrice and Linc grow closer, the tension between them begins to build and even though they know it’ll lead to heartbreak, […]

Posted October 16, 2024 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: Stalking Around the Christmas Tree by Jacqueline Frost

Stalking Around the Christmas Tree (Christmas Tree Farm Mystery #4) by Jacqueline Frost narrated by Allyson Ryan My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Tis the season to solve a murder—and innkeeper Holly White knows she’ll have to make her list and check it twice if she wants to catch the killer in the 4th Christmas Tree Farm mystery from bestselling author Jacqueline Frost. For inn keeper Holly White, Christmas time in Mistletoe, Maine, is the ultimate holiday gift. Business at the Reindeer Games Inn is booming, her wedding to Sheriff Evan […]

Posted October 14, 2024 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Review: A Dangerous Connection by S.J. Pajonas

A Dangerous Connection (The Amagi Series #4.5) by S.J. Pajonas My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Science Fiction Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: Reverse Harem Blurb: A rebellious outcast. An enigmatic designer. An alien creature that will change everything. In the neon-lit streets of Teresa Terceiro, where high fashion meets high stakes, Sora Monteiro is living on borrowed time. A runaway with a mysterious past, she’s determined to forge her own path — until fate intervenes in the form of an injured alien with extraordinary empathic abilities. Enter Tiago Nunes, a talented textile designer with secrets of his own […]

Posted October 7, 2024 by Lola in Review, Romance, Sci-Fi / 4 Comments

Review: A Fondant Farewell by H.Y. Hanna

A Fondant Farewell (Bewitched by Chocolate #9) by H.Y. Hanna My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Ever since she stumbled into the quaint village of Tillyhenge and discovered the enchanted chocolate shop run by her grandmother, Caitlyn Le Fey has been dreaming of finding her long-lost mother and finally unwrapping the mystery of her past. But meeting Tara isn’t the sweet reunion she’d hoped for: not only is her mother far from the gentle, maternal figure Caitlyn had imagined, she’s also the prime suspect in a murder that’s left the […]

Posted October 4, 2024 by Lola in Fantasy, Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Review: Awakenings by Claudia Arseneault

Awakenings (The Chronicles of Nerezia #1) by Claudie Arseneault My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Fantasy Age Category: Adult Type of romance: no romance Blurb: Innkeep, hunter, blacksmith, nurse—Horace has apprenticed for every clan in the domed city of Trenaze, and they’ve all rejected em. Too hare-brained. Too talkative. Too slow. Ever the optimist, e has joined Trenaze’s guards to be mentored. Horace has high hopes to earn eir place during eir trial at the Great Market. That is, until the glowing shards haunting the world break through the city’s protective dome, fused together in a single, monstrous amalgam of […]

Posted October 2, 2024 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 2 Comments

Review: A Picture of Murder by T.E. Kinsey

A Picture of Murder (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #4) by T.E. Kinsey narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Historical Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Blurb: Late October 1909, and the season of ghouls and things that go bump in the night has descended on the village of Littleton Cotterell. Lady Hardcastle and her trusted lady’s maid, Florence, find themselves hosting a colourful cast of actors whose spooky moving picture, The Witch’s Downfall, is being shown to mark Halloween. But things take a macabre turn when the first night’s screening ends with a mysterious murder, and the second night […]

Posted September 30, 2024 by Lola in Historical, Mystery, Review / 6 Comments

Review: Summer Fling With A Sea God by Laura Greenwood

Summer Fling with a Sea God (Jinx Paranormal Dating Agency #6) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Romance/ Mythology Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Bo doesn’t have time for romance, but that doesn’t mean a summer fling is out of the question. When Bo accidentally flirts with a sea god, the last thing she expects is for it to turn into something more than just a summer romance, but the more time she spends with Neptune, the more she finds herself drawn to him. Neptune is happy living his life, but the moment he […]

Posted September 27, 2024 by Lola in Fantasy, Mythology, Review, Romance / 6 Comments