Miriam Toews’ Women Talking is based on a real incident which involved the secret, systematic assault of women in a Mennonite community, but what makes this book stand out is its premise. The women of the Molotschna community get together to decide on a course of action and to carry it out. And for the…
Middle books in trilogies can often be disappointing, seeming to tread water between the set up in book one, and the finale in book three, but thankfully, Twisted Tome (Devastating Magic book two) is not one of those books! Vanora Lawless has followed up their fantastic début, Imperfect Illusions, with another fast-paced, compelling and high-stakes…
Narrated by Patti Murin Last year, Hello Stranger. Sadie Montgomery is a portrait artist, broke and desperate to get her big break. She barely squeaks by with the earnings from her Etsy shop. She lives in her studio which she’s not supposed to do as her landlord, Mr Kim, (her BFF’s father) assures her it’s…
Catherine Tinley’s Miss Rose and the Vexing Viscount is the first in her Triplet Orphans series It’s a fun opposites-attract, bookworm heroine story with a little bit of a mystery mixed in. The story opens with a prologue telling the tale of the Lennox sisters’ mother as she flees someone before she realizes she’s going into labor and…
Narrated by Kale Williams Broadway Butchery is the third book in C.S. Poe’s compelling Memento Mori series of romantic mysteries set in New York City featuring Everett Larkin, star detective of the NYPD Cold Case Squad and his ‘work-husband’ (and boyfriend) Detective Ira Doyle of the Forensic Artists Unit. The mysteries in this series are…
A missing, possibly murdered, child. A skeptical cop. A psychic turned scientist. A painful love triangle. These are the elements Julia Heaberlin uses to weave an enthralling tale of love, loss, and lies in Night Will Find You. It’s a gripping story; once you pick it up, you won’t want to put it down until…
True confession – despite the fact that I’ve heard nothing but praise for Adrienne Young’s last book, Spells for Forgetting, it’s been on my TBR pile for months for no other reason than I have a small library’s worth of books to get through and there are only so many hours in the day. But…
A World Away is one of those books that hooked me from the very first page and kept me eagerly turning the pages and getting ever closer to the edge of my seat as the plot unfolded and the stakes kept getting higher. It’s a creative and imaginitive mix of fantasy, sci-fi and romance, a riff…
Erin Hahn’s Friends Don’t Fall In Love is sharply-written, sexy, romantic and lovely. With great tenderness, Hahn explores a friends-to-lovers romance – and deconstructs the music business with great honesty and aplomb. Country music star Lorelai Jones has a bumpy romance with her equally famous fiancé Drake Colter. As always, she turns to her best…
Alexis Hall begins a new series – Material World – with 10 Things That Never Happened, an opposites-attract romance between two very lonely people who come together through some rather unlikely circumstances. All the things I enjoy about Mr. Hall’s books are here – the characters are flawed and very real, it’s often laugh-out-loud funny,…
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