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REVIEW: Hitting the Wall by Cate C. Wells

Trigger warning: child rape.

Dear Cate C. Wells,

I picked up Hitting the Wall, the first contemporary romance in your Stonecut County series, because it came highly recommended by commenter DiscoDollyDeb. That it was included with my limited-time free trial membership in Kindle Unlimited made it easy to try; I don’t think I would have paid for it. Hitting the Wall had some things going for it but also some real issues and I quit at 44%.

The first chapter here is essentially a prologue. Shay Cro...

Elizabeth Cadell books on sale!

Her books are usually $7.99 and sales are rare.

I’ve reviewed this one.

And also this one.

REVIEW: The Friendly Air by Elizabeth Cadell

The friendly air describes the atmosphere in warm, sunny Portugal where young, beautiful Emma Challis finds herself as the temporary companion to Lady Grantly who has just bought a home there. She took on the task at the request of her fiancé, Gerald Delmont—brilliant, sophisticated and with a promising legal career ahead. A perfect husband for Emma—but would he be? Enter handsome local lawyer Robert Weybridge, some eccentric neighbors, a mysterious young woman with five small children who tak...

REVIEW: Daughter of the Sea by Elizabeth J Hobbes

On a windswept British coastline the tide bestows an unexpected gift…

It was the cry that she first noticed, the plaintive wail that called to her over the crash of winter waves. Wrapped only in a sealskin, the baby girl looks up at Effie and instantly captures her heart.

Effie has always been an outcast in her village, the only granddaughter of a woman people whisper is a witch, so she’s used to a solitary existence. But when Midsummer arrives so too does a man claiming to be the child’s fath...

Reading List by Jennie for October 2021 through December 2021

The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins

This was the first of my two short Halloween reads. Like most of my Halloween reads, it wasn’t particularly scary.

The story opens with the Countess Narona visiting a doctor in London, and recounting a strange story about her meeting her fiance’s jilted lover. The Countess is supposedly a widow; both her title and widowhood are questioned by society. She travels with her brother, the Baron Rivar, who it’s implied is actually her lover. The Countess is engaged ...

REVIEW: The Suite Spot by Trish Doller

Content warnings:  grief, past death of a child, sexual assault

Dear Trish Doller,

Last year you released Float Plan, the first in the Beck Sisters series. I loved it (in fact I must apologise because I did not include it in my best books of 2021 and I should have – in my defence I read it in 2020 and so my Goodreads sort failed me) and so The Suite Spot became one of my most anticipated books of 2022. Like in Float Plan, there are some heavy topics covered as the characters have dealt with serio...

REVIEW: Of Sword and Shadow by A. L. Sowards

Greece, 1379

She is known by many names, none of them her own. In truth, she is an unnamed slave, nothing more than a weapon in the hands of her owner in his attempts to provoke political mayhem. When she encounters a handsome young man while on an assignment, she thinks little of him—until he attempts to take what she has stolen. But in her line of work, failure is not an option.

Gillen is intrigued by the mysterious woman who thwarts his mission. But when his path crosses hers again, his int...

Open Thread for Readers for March 2022

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?

REVIEW: Dinosaurs on Kitty Island by Michael Slack

A playdate between intrepid kitties and cautious dinosaurs doesn’t go quite as planned in this hilarious story of friendship and compromise!

Life on Dinosaur Island is so boring. Who wants to watch stuff sink in tar pits all day? So the dinosaurs are escaping to Kitty Island to play with their new kitty friends, even though the level-headed narrator warns them that it will end in cat-astrophe. After all, the kitties are fearless and feisty! And these dinos? Well, cuddles are more their speed. ...

REVIEW: Kitties on Dinosaurs by Michael Slack

A daring, dinosaur-climbing adventure leads to hilarious kitty hijinks in this adorable tale of perseverance

They’re adorable! They’re daring! They’re kitties who love to climb things! And they won’t give up until they’ve achieved their ultimate climbing dream: scaling the dinosaurs on nearby Dinosaur Island. The level-headed narrator warns the kitties that the dinosaurs look hungry, that their teeth are super big, that things look terribly bleak if they go through with climbing the dinosaurs....