Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr: True literature lovers will need to hold their hats, and likely a good glass of wine to journey through the lives of our 5 seemingly unconnected heroes and anti-heroes, to come to an end that delivered catharsis in spades in Cloud Cuckoo Land.
In An Impossible Promise (Providence Falls #2) by Jude Deveraux & Tara Sheets, Liam O’Connor is a man who’s at odds with his head and his heart. As a thief in Ireland in the mid 1800s, he fell in love with the town squire’s daughter, Cora McLeod. Things didn’t end […]
In Capture the Crown (Gargoyle Queen #1) by Jennifer Estep (7/6), As a survivor of the horrific Seven Spire massacre in her home of Andvari, Princess Gemma Ripley has spent the last sixteen years reflecting on what she could have–and should have–done to assist. To atone for her guilt and […]
In The Gravedigger’s Son (Charley Davidson #13.6) by Darynda Jones , Private investigator Amber Kowalski is tracking down a demon who killed a couple of locals in Madrid, New Mexico when she comes face to face with her former best friend/boyfriend, Quentin Rutherford. After about five years apart, there’s a lot […]
In A Fate of Wrath & Flame (Fate & Flame #1) by K.A. Tucker (5/25), Romeria “Romy” Watts has seen a lot of weird things in her childhood days living on the streets in New York City. Some of the strange stuff she’s heard has actually been spewed out of […]
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas begins a year after the Great War has ended with the sense of peace throughout the realm a mere mirage for the machinations of those who landed on the losing side of the battle. Rumours around the globe suggest that Queen Briallyn […]
In Beguiled (Betwixt & Between #3) by Darynda Jones, The last six months have been among the most eye-opening in Defiance Dayne’s forty-plus years so far. First she was bequeathed a rockin’ mansion in Salem, named Percy. Then, sadly, she found out her grandmother had been killed. On top of […]
The Fiery Crown by Jeffe Kennedy is the second book in her exciting Forgotten Empires fantasy romance trilogy. Middle books are a little trickier to review – there are necessarily some spoilers that will arise because you can’t talk about book two without references to some of the plot of book […]
The Orchid Throne by Jeffe Kennedy is the start of an exciting fantasy romance trilogy that introduces a royal couple destined to fight for the survival of their peoples against a tyrant bent on their destruction. The discovery of vurgstun, a rock with explosive properties mined deep in the volcanoes […]