Rating: ★★★☆☆ Genre: Psychological thriller Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (reprint) Publication Date: April 12, 2018 Disclaimer: I received a free eARC of this via NetGalley in exchange for my honest, unbiased review. A slow-burn thriller told from the point of view of a mentally ill woman playing a deadly game of cat and mouse. When Laura […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ Genre: Mystery, Historical Fiction Publisher: Berkley Publication Date: April 3, 2018 Disclaimer: I received a free eARC copy of this from Penguin Random House First To Read in exchange for an honest review. When a piano teacher is found dead, Sebastian St. Cyr has to decide if it was manslaughter or murder while […]
Confession: I have never traveled the world. Unless Canada and the United States count. No? Well, fine. Be like that. That being said, the beautiful thing about books is that they help us travel the world, all from the safety and relative comfort of our living room. You can learn about other cultures, “see” the […]
The Clock Is Ticking … Enjoy a mystery? How about eleven? Some of you may have noticed the not-so-subtle promotion on Twitter recently, because we’re just FIVE WEEKS away from the release of this crime/mystery anthology from Insecure Writer’s Support Group. An amazing group of writers have contributed to this, with the help of Dancing […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Orbit Publication Date: April 3, 2018 Disclaimer: I received a free eARC copy of this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. A massive battle of wits, one within a kingdom and one between kingdoms, where the loser forfeits their life and no one truly wins. The Anakim to […]
Despite what the weather seems to think, Spring has just about sprung! Never mind the incoming snow. Ahem. Where I live, spring means ungodly allergies, thunderstorms, and flooding, which is … perfect weather for reading? I mean, it seems as good a time as any, really. So here’s my spring reading TBR list. There’s honestly […]
Rating: ★★★★★ Genre: Literature & Fiction, Historical Publisher: Gallery Books Publication Date: March 27, 2018 Disclaimer: Thank you to Gallery Books. I won an ARC copy of this via Goodreads giveaways. Despite betrayal—from her country and her husband—Ruby just wants to survive World War II, but what she doesn’t expect is to find love, strength, […]
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Genre: Literary, Sci Fi & Fantasy Publisher: Painted Blind Publishing Publication Date: March 19, 2018 Disclaimer: I received a free eARC copy of this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Filled with surrealism and philosophy, The Lightning Stenography Device forces the reader to question what they think they know about life […]
In a perfect world, bacon and cake would grow from bushes, everyone would own a dragon, and books would always turn out the way we expect them to. Unfortunately, none of these are the case, although I sincerely hope someone is at least working on that dragon thing. Over the many years of reading probably […]
I have it on pretty good authority that there are more books in existence than it’s possible to read in a lifetime (still, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED). Since I apparently can’t live forever (pffft), I tend to be a bit choosy about the books I pick up. When I pick up a book and decide it’s THE […]