fiction
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Book review The Mistletoe Promise by Richard Paul Evans
This is a quick holiday read with some heavy content warning about child abuse, trauma, and, to some extent, body issue bullying. Elise is a bitter divorcé, dreading another holiday season and dealing with her ex-husband and his antiques. Nicholas is a lawyer trying to impress his bosses at the firm, who need a date… Continue reading
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Book Review: Part of Your World #1 by Abby Jimenez
Author Abby Jimenez brings to light the fight, flight, freeze, and fawn phenomena in this age-gap romance, which can trigger readers who have suffered long-term emotional abuse. In this book, we meet thirty-seven-year-old Dr. Alexis Montgomery and twenty-eight-year-old carpenter Daniel Grant as the main characters. Jimenez couldn’t have picked two more polar opposites if she… Continue reading
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Honoring Loved Ones on Día de los Muertos
On this day of the dead, I want to honor the family members I’ve lost. Over the last seven years, there’s been one significant loss a year. In 2017, we buried my father-in-law. In 2018, we had to say goodbye to my grandfather; the year after, it was my grandmother. These deaths left such an… Continue reading
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Book Review: Moon Kissed: The Marked Wolf #1 by Jen L. Grey
This is a paranormal fated mate romance. Emma and Aidan are introduced as the main characters. They’re teenagers from enemy packs, so they sneak around to meet at their packs’ respective borderlines. On Emma’s fourteenth birthday, they share a kiss, and Aidan notices a mark on her neck. He leaves and never returns to their… Continue reading
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Book Review: Murder Any Witch Way Brimstone Bay #1 by N.M. Howell
This cozy murder mystery, written in the first person, introduces River Halloway as the main character. River is a young witch hiding her powers from the small town of Brimstone Bay, where she moved for her first journalist job. Continue reading
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Another little peak
“It’s really her?” Viola asks incredulously. “Oh, yes.” His body is both excited and in pure agony with her almost flesh to flesh. So close, yet with a chasm between them which makes it impossible to truly reach her. Every second, holding her in his arms, tight to his chest, feeling her heart beat match… Continue reading
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Book Review: Blindsided by Amy Daws
Book Review: Blindsided by Amy Daws a book available for free on Kindle Prime Reading. This book is the second book in The Harris Brothers World, however can be read as a standalone. Daws pairs Freya Cook “Cookie” the invisible plus size seamstress in body and spirit who is used to offering cheeky punch lines… Continue reading
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Book Review: Where The Heart Is by Billie Letts
Billie Letts book Where the Heart Is published in 1995 is powerfully raw and emotionally compelling. We follow the journey of Novalee Nation who’s always been unlucky with the number sevens. Novalee is seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty seven pounds overweight, and traveling to Bakersfield, California from Tennessee with her boyfriend Willy Jack Pickens in… Continue reading
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Book Review: By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
Picoult’s book My Sisters Keeper published in 2004 was almost naked with raw emotions expressed through characters that could tug at heart strings that shared the maelstrom of grief and confusion making it all but impossible to put the book down. Her latest work By Any Other Name is an altogether different story. The research… Continue reading
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