• REVIEW: What Happened That Night by Deanna Cameron

    REVIEW: What Happened That Night by Deanna Cameron

    The Official Description: Golden boy Griffin Tomlin is found dead, floating in his pool, the morning after his family’s Labor Day party, and neighbor Emily Porterfield is arrested for his murder. No one knows why she killed him, except for her younger sister, Clara. The secrets behind What Happened That Night unravel in dual timelines: in…

  • REVIEW: Lost and Found by Orson Scott Card

    REVIEW: Lost and Found by Orson Scott Card

    The Official Description: That’s the question that has haunted fourteen-year-old Ezekiel Blast all his life. But he’s not a thief, he just has a talent for finding things. Not a superpower–a micropower. Because what good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies, especially when you return them to their owners and everyone thinks you must…

  • REVIEW: Body and Soul by Mario Dell’Olio

    REVIEW: Body and Soul by Mario Dell’Olio

    The Official Description: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Luca seemed destined for priesthood. His safe spiritual world is shattered after just one kiss with a college roommate. Luca enters a period of self-discovery as his journey of love opens his eyes to joy he never thought possible. Along with his new-found love comes unfathomable…

  • REVIEW: Here There Are Monsters by Amelinda Bérubé

    REVIEW: Here There Are Monsters by Amelinda Bérubé

    The Official Description: The Blair Witch Project meets Imaginary Girls in this story of codependent sisterhood, the struggle to claim one’s own space, and the power of secrets Sixteen-year-old Skye is done playing the knight in shining armor for her insufferable younger sister, Deirdre. Moving across the country seems like the perfect chance to start over.…

  • REVIEW: Relationship Material by Jenya Keefe

    REVIEW: Relationship Material by Jenya Keefe

    The descriptive bit: Evan Doyle is a registered nurse living with a panic disorder that is all part of the history he carries with him. It’s a history no one knows about because Evan’s life has been reinvented after a violent and traumatic past. It was a past that even forced Evan to abandon what…

  • REVIEW: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

    The Official Description: For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can’t quite control: he can bring characters from books into the real world. His older brother, Rob — a young lawyer with a normal house, a normal fiancee, and an utterly normal life — hopes that this strange family secret will…

  • REVIEW: Waking Up The Sun by Laura Bailo

    REVIEW: Waking Up The Sun by Laura Bailo

    The Official Description: When Lander accepts a dare to go into the forest at night he thinks it’ll be easy. He just needs to walk in and then come out, right? But that’s easier said than done. It’s like the trees have a mind of their own, and they are stopping him from finding his way…

  • QUICK REVIEWS: June 2019

    QUICK REVIEWS: June 2019

    The Ghosts Between Us by Brigham Vaughn (Book 1 of the West Hills Series): This is one of those books I stumbled across and can’t remember who recommended it to me. So, if you did…thank you. I wasn’t certain at first that I would like this book. It’s unusual subject matter from the first few…

  • REVIEW: Death Takes a Bow (A Detective Heath Barrington Mystery #4) by David S. Pederson

    The Official Description: Alan Keyes takes a break from his police duties to scratch his acting itch in a local stage production. But when the leading man is murdered during the opening night performance, his partner Detective Heath Barrington is thrust into the limelight to find the killer. Alan soon learns the theater has a…

  • REVIEW: The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper

    REVIEW: The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper

    The official description: As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to sharing his life online. But when his pilot father is selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, Cal and his family relocate from Brooklyn to Houston and are thrust into a media circus. (GoodReads.com)…

  • REVIEW: Through the Tears by Leigh M. Lorien

    REVIEW: Through the Tears by Leigh M. Lorien

    The official description: Huge, horrid creatures with a taste for human flesh have been invading Seacliff Manor and its surrounding lands for years. Ghouls are coming from another world through portals made of magic. No one knows why or how, but nothing good ever comes with them. During a hunting trip, Eamon encounters one such monster…

  • REVIEW: My Baby Chased Away the Blues by R.A. Thorn

    REVIEW: My Baby Chased Away the Blues by R.A. Thorn

    Official Description: It’s 1925 in Los Angeles, and motor patrol officer Del Randolph keeps making one mistake after another. Struggling to keep his job with the Los Angeles Police Department, Del is also lonely and heartbroken after his last lover left him. But then he meets Ev, a gentle but cynical invert, and has his…