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August 3, 2020
REVIEW: Matilda Next Door (Outback Brides Return to Wirralong Book 1) by Kelly Hunter
When a long-anticipated holiday takes an unexpected turn…
Aussie farm girl Matilda Moore kicks off her dream trip to London by flat-sitting for her childhood friend. But London is daunting, crowded and noisy, and that’s before Tilly finds a baby on the doorstep. There’s a note attached: “Henry, if you’re reading this, please know the worst has happened.”
Probability expert Henry Church has finally returned home to Wirralong, Australia, to see his grandparents when he gets a phone call from Til...
July 31, 2020
REVIEW: Sweetest in the Gale by Olivia Dade
CW: Grief, substance abuse, cancer
Dear Olivia Dade,
Sweetest in the Gale is an anthology featuring three novellas set in your Marysburg series set in and around Marysburg High School in Virginia (although, in the case of the last novella, the link to the high school is somewhat tenuous). Two of the novellas have been previously published in multi-author anthologies which sold, at the time for 99c each. I have them both. The title of the anthology comes from the new story and also provides inspir...
July 30, 2020
REVIEW: The Runaway Montana Bride by Joan Kilby
She promised she’d go anywhere…
When lifestyle “it” girl Lilou Langdon dumps her wealthy, snobby fiancé days before their highly-promoted society wedding, she can’t get out of Manhattan fast enough. Desperate to escape, she begs her magazine editor for the first assignment out of town. With her designer luggage and pup in a purse, Lilou—who specializes in covering luxury resorts and glamorous travel destinations—arrives in Montana for a six day trek into the wilderness.
Adventure tour owner Ga...
July 29, 2020
NEW RELEASES: Week of July 27, 2020
Come Home to Deep River by Jackie Ashenden: $ 6.15
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Hawk & the Lady by Elizabeth Stevens: $ 3.99
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The Girl Next Door by Emma Hart: $ 3.99
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Wild Cowboy Country by Erin Marsh: $ 6.15
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Cowboy Bikers MC #2 by Esther E. Schmidt: $ 0.99
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JOINT REVIEW: A Royal Affair by Allison Montclair
In London 1946, The Right Sort Marriage Bureau is just beginning to take off and the proprietors, Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, are in need of a bigger office and a secretary to handle the growing demand. Unfortunately, they don’t yet have the necessary means. So when a woman arrives—a cousin of Gwen’s—with an interesting and quite remunerative proposition, they two of them are all ears.
The cousin, one Lady Matheson, works for the Queen in “some capacity” and is in need of so...
July 28, 2020
REVIEW: The Grove of the Caesars by Lindsey Davis
In the sacred grove of Julius Caesar, something deadly stirs in the undergrowth—a serial killer, who haunted the gardens for years, has claimed another victim—
At the feet of her adoptive father, renowned private informer Marcus Didius Falco, Flavia Albia learned a number of important rules. First and foremost—always keep one’s distance from the palace, nothing good comes from that direction. But right behind it—murder is the business of the Vigiles, best to leave them to it.
Having broken the...
July 27, 2020
REVIEW: Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
Dear Tiffany D. Jackson,
I checked your YA novel, Monday’s Not Coming, out of the library after reading this blog post by Kristin Cashore, author of a couple of YA fantasy novels I hold as favorites. Cashore wrote about how the book (not fantastical but set in the real world) was structured, how compelling the story was, and about the wonderful use of color as a motif. All these things are indeed present in the book and there are other pleasures as well. But first, a plot summary.
Monday’s Not ...
July 26, 2020
Open Thread for Readers for August 2020
Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general?
July 24, 2020
REVIEW: Open House: A Rivalry Romance (Uptown Book 2) by Ruby Lang
Love can take root where you least expect it.
Tyson Yang never imagined that one day he’d be the de facto spokesperson for an illegal community garden. But when the once-rat-infested-but-now-thriving Harlem lot goes up for sale, Ty can’t just let all their hard work get plowed under.
Even if he is irresistibly drawn to the lovely but infuriatingly stubborn real estate associate.
Magda Ferrer’s family is already convinced this new job will be yet another flop in her small but growing list of ca...
July 23, 2020
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