Reviews by Dolly Sickles
Alexandra Ivy is a long-running favorite of mine, and I continue to enjoy her Pike, Wisconsin series. The fourth installment, Desperate Acts, heralds another successful romantic suspense for this genre fanatic.This is a whodunit that unravels over decades. It opens with teenage Lia Porter sneaki ...
When I grabbed a copy of Ali Hazlewood’s Loathe to Love You, I didn’t realize it was three connected novellas rather than one full-length novel. But since I’m a fan of novellas, that wasn’t an issue for me. Some readers may think that novellas are less bang for your buck, but the reality is ...
Toni Anderson is back with another nail-biting tale of romantic suspense that’s as smart as it is sexy. Cold Deceit is the second book in the Cold Justice: Most Wanted series and takes place in the Arizona side of the Sonoran Desert. It’s an exciting tangent to her exhilarating long-running Cold ...
You know it’s a great reading year when it’s bookended by two dynamic books in the same thrilling series. In this case, I’m talking about Rebecca Zanetti’s Laurel Snow series, and while I loved You Can Run, You Can Hide is even more exciting.Brilliant, calculative, badass Laurel Snow is ...
Rachel Grant returns to the top of her game with Into the Storm, the first book in her new Evidence: Under Fire series. This military procedural hits the ground running from the first chapter and doesn’t let up until the very end. There’s little time to draw a breath, and while it’s also a rom ...
Elle Kennedy is a prolific author with a wide variety of genres under her belt. I was an avid reader of her romantic suspenses from back in the day, hooked from the get-go with the Out of Uniform series about a group of sexy Navy SEALs. From there I moved on to another great batch of her romantic su ...
If there’s one thing readers can learn from Kit Rocha’s dystopian world, it’s that we’ve got roughly sixty years to get a grip on society before it all goes FUBAR. Because in the post-apocalyptic world that went dark after the Flares (the solar storms that damaged global power grids), darkne ...
It feels so unnatural to say I found the latest Julie Garwood novel to be just meh… three-stars on a scale of five, just okay … because Julie Garwood is the author who solidified my love of the whole romance genre. But the latest installment of her Buchanan-Renard series, Grace Under Fire, just ...
If I could package up my reaction to Jaci Burton’s The Accidental Newlywed Game in one word, it would be ‘unresolved.’ Just like so many of the characters in this third installment of the Boots and Banquets series, I have unresolved feelings about this story. I am the only child of a sin ...
Retribution is one of my favorite concepts. It’s strange, really, because I also believe in unlimited second chances. But retribution, when warranted, offers such a satisfying plotline. And in Melinda Leigh’s fifth Bree Taggert book, Dead Against Her, the retribution is bone chilling.The fir ...