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REVIEW: Capture the Sun by Jessie Mihalik

Readers please note:  Series spoilers follow. Also, I’m going to assume those who read this review will be familiar with the series and the characters.

Dear Jessie Mihalik,

I’ve been enjoying your Starlight’s Shadow trilogy ever since Hunt the Stars first came out. In that book, readers got a taste of the attraction between Lexi and Nilo. They clearly had some history but there was no detail. I have been curious!

As it happens, one of the few things that didn’t work super great for me in Captur...

REVIEW: Beach Please (PARADISE BAY SERIES Book 6) by Melanie Summers

A hilarious and heartwarming story that’ll have you snort-laughing, swooning, and sighing with happiness…

Lola Gordon’s dreams of a thriving surf shop were shattered when her ex vanished with all the money in their business account, leaving her on the brink of losing everything. With the bank set to auction off her beloved shop and its contents in just six weeks, Lola is desperate to find a solution.

When news of an exciting treasure hunt sweeps through the island, Lola sees it as her last cha...

REVIEW: Trust Me by Rachel Grant

Dear Rachel Grant,

Trust Me is book two in your Evidence: Under Fire series, which merges the Evidence and Flashpoint series’. I haven’t yet read all of the Evidence books but I loved the Flashpoint novels. It was nice to catch up with some of those familiar characters again.

SEAL Lt Chris Flyte has transferred from the teams in Coronado to Little Creek, Virginia. His soon-to-be-ex-wife was cheating on him with a fellow SEAL and he’s moved so he could get away from the constant reminder of it....

REVIEW: Zero Days by Ruth Ware

Dear Ms. Ware:

After reading and enjoying The It Girl last year, I was pleased when Janine alerted me to your new book. I wasn’t sure about the blurb, though:

Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect—her.

Suddenly on the run an...

Review: Magic Claims (Kate Daniels : Wilmington Years #2) by Ilona Andrews

New town, new friends, new challenges…. And a new heart-stopping adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Ilona Andrews. Kate, Curran, and Conlan may have left Atlanta for Wilmington, but the usual magic mayhem has also hitched a ride!

Kate and Curran have just settled into their new home and their ‘low prolife,’ when a local businessman approaches them with an offer they can’t refuse. A mysterious evil has spawned in the nearby forest and is holding a defenseless town hostage. The ...

JOINT REVIEW: Remember Me by Mary Balogh

Janine: Kaetrin and I have reviewed several books by Mary Balogh together, starting with Someone to Love, book one in the Westcott series. Remember Me is the second book in a newer series about the Ware family and we continue our joint review tradition with this review of it.

In the first book in the series, Remember Love, we read about how the Earl of Stratton, father to Devlin and Philippa Ware (siblings and main characters in Remember Love and Remember Me, respectively), was discovered in ...

REVIEW: The Washerwomen’s War by Piper Huguley

1881: Mamie Harper, a new teacher at Atlanta Female Baptist Seminary, hears of mistreatment from her washerwomen students and tells them to strike. She re-encounters summer pastor Gabriel Harmon, who has other ideas to help the washerwomen. Will these combatants be able to win in the war of love?

Dear Ms. Huguley, 

For some years I’ve meant to read the “Daughters of the Nation” anthology only to discover that the four novellas are now being sold separately. Okay, I can get started on them tha...

REVIEW: Véronique’s Journey by Patti Flinn

In 18th century France, the choices for a young black woman of modest means are slim.

Véronique Clair loves her parents and their small home in the countryside of Burgundy but dreams of using her talent for sewing and embroidery to make her own way, without having to rely on a man.

When Véronique’s well-meaning parents find her a suitor of elevated station their happiness turns into her despair. Véronique must make the difficult choice between agreeing to an arranged marriage–with its promise ...

REVIEW: Witch King (x 2) by Martha Wells

“I didn’t know you were a… demon.”
“You idiot. I’m the demon.”
Kai’s having a long day in Martha Wells’ WITCH KING….

After being murdered, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate water trap, Kai-Enna wakes to find a lesser mage attempting to harness Kai’s magic to his own advantage. That was never going to go well.

But why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has changed in the world since his assassination? And why does the Rising W...

REVIEW: Much Ado About Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin

Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she’s still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother’s unsubtle pleas to get married already. While Nada has a good job as an engineer, it’s a far cry from realizing her start-up dreams for her tech baby, Ask Apa, the app that launched with a whimper instead of a bang because of a double-crossing business partner. Nothing in her life has turned out the way it was suppo...