This cozy paranormal romance is the perfect Halloween read! Paranormal Investigation + Romantic Comedy: Why don’t more stories this exist?? This book had the perfect balance of suspense and light-hearted comedy that is great for fans of paranormal stories as well as readers of cute romances. I liked the mystery surrounding the haunted castle andContinue reading “Book Review: Heartthrobs & Hauntings by Christine M Walter”
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Book Review: One Day a Year by J. Lamont Jones
YES! What a breath of fresh air! I was of course, immediately captivated by the gorgeous cover, and then reeled in through the content of historical fiction with a time-travel theme. Why are not more books like this written? Summary Present-day Benny is caught in a whirlwind romance with Brigham Young’s daughter Mary…who happens toContinue reading “Book Review: One Day a Year by J. Lamont Jones”
Book Review: A Countess Through Time – (Through Time Series, #1) by Christine M Walter
Time travel, proper/clean regency romance, and a mystery to solve…this book is my cup o’ tea! Foster child Lilyanna finds herself mysteriously transported through a mirror back to Regency Scotland where a count takes her under his wing, raising her as his own daughter. As she grows up in this strange era, she must keepContinue reading “Book Review: A Countess Through Time – (Through Time Series, #1) by Christine M Walter”
Book Review: Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
A young girl named Matilda living in 1793 Philadelphia finds herself caught up in the dreaded yellow fever epidemic which has afflicted her mother and many close to her. She journeys to a neighboring farm at her mother’s bequest and encounters many others who have been affected by the plague. Matilda does her best toContinue reading “Book Review: Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson”
Book Review: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
This book was unlike any I have read before. It contains many tropes that other authors have tackled like gothic mansions, time loops, and murder mysteries, but this is done in a way that keeps the reader wondering what the overlying plot is; we unfold it with the protagonist as he discovers more about theContinue reading “Book Review: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton”
Book Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Just when I thought there could not be another way for someone to retell the Cinderella story, I was very pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong. Cinder–part girl, part machine–makes a living fixing androids in order to help financially support her stepmother and stepsisters. That is, until she finds herself wrapped up in a strangeContinue reading “Book Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer”
Book Review: The Ghost of Graylock by Dan Poblocki
Summary Intrigued by the supernatural, Neal feels drawn to the mysterious Graylock Asylum when he spends the summer with his aunts and sister, thankfully away from the drama of his current home life. However, as he learns more about a former Graylock resident, he finds his past creeping back up on him. Hoping to solveContinue reading “Book Review: The Ghost of Graylock by Dan Poblocki”
Book Review: The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts by Mary Wellesley
“…You must always keep searching, because you might find something magical, beneath some mouse-eaten cover, while looking for something quite different altogether.” Page 54 Summary In this deep-dive into the nature and study of medieval manuscripts, and especially many lesser known ones, Wellesley brings to light how recent research of these texts influenced the literaryContinue reading “Book Review: The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts by Mary Wellesley”
Book Review: The Graveyard Riddle by Lisa Thompson
This book came as a surprise to me. Here I was thinking, “Oooh! It had graveyard in the title. And it talks a bout a plague house on the back cover…It must be spooky!”, but lo and behold, I find out that it doesn’t have all that much to do with hauntings or spooky thingsContinue reading “Book Review: The Graveyard Riddle by Lisa Thompson”
2023 Reading Wrap-Up
I hate the flu. But thankfully, I’m better and ready to mini-review the last books I read for the year of 2023! Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman Summary Teenage Matilda is distraught when she must leave her home at a convent to actually work for a living in a poor part of London. However, sheContinue reading “2023 Reading Wrap-Up”
