A new Shari Low book is always a reason to celebrate! It's like getting together with friends you haven't seen for a long time, and picking up where you left off, like you saw other just yesterday! Blurb: Would you give up your dreams for love? 1990: In a hot, humid Hong Kong summer, three... Continue Reading →
Blurb: I blink awake to the sound of whispering, and look around. Automatically, I do a count. And then I am upright, my heart racing. I count again. “Girls,” I say, trying to sound calm. “Did you see Evie?” It was meant to be a celebration. A team sleepover in the school gymnasium: movies, pizza,... Continue Reading →
Sometimes a book comes along that just doesn't fit into a box. It defies all description, and can't be defined by genre. And yet it's so compelling and intriguing that it stays with you long after you've finished it. The Strange Case of Jane O is one of these books. Blurb: WHAT IF YOU COULD... Continue Reading →
Sometimes a debut novel comes along that leaves you just a little bit in awe that it's the author's debut! The Grapevine by Kate Kemp is one of those. It has such a perfect sense of place and time, and the moodiness of it just jumped right off the page (well, ok, off the Kindle!),... Continue Reading →
Happy Publication Day! Congratulations to Katie Gayle - Kate Sidley and Gail Schimmel - on this, number seven in the Julia Bird Mystery series. Once again, we return to the Cotswold village of Berrywick, where Julia Bird thought she would retire peacefully and live a quiet country life, away from the bright lights and stresses... Continue Reading →
Once again, Shari Low brings together familiar characters whose lives intercept and take dramatic, unforeseen turns over a 24-hour time-frame. Blurb: As dawn breaks, four people are planning journeys that could change their lives forever… Kara McIntyre is supposed to be jetting off to her destination wedding in Hawaii. However, a last-minute hitch appears to... Continue Reading →
Kristen Bailey returns with a 5-star holiday read. Full of warmth, charm, quirky characters, a touch of the spice that we expect from this author (although she's dialed it down a notch in this one), and an overall sense of having been wrapped up in a comforting, fleecy blanket when you're done. I loved it!... Continue Reading →
Wow! I'm going to leave this disclaimer here ... I'm not going to say a lot in this review about Redemption, because this really is a book that you need to read for yourself. You can read as many reviews as you like, but no review (no matter how insightful or detailed) will allow you... Continue Reading →
I'm so excited to be part of the Compulsive Readers Jack Jordan Blogathon. For the next few months, we'll be doing a series of blog features of seven of this bestselling author's books! Today we're starting with Do No Harm, which was first published in 2022. When this came out it was EVERYWHERE - my... Continue Reading →
If you like your stories to be spooky and atmospheric, then this one's for you. Elisa Lodato knows how to create enough of an atmosphere that you can literally imagine the mist hovering over a dark, rugged landscape. Blurb: She came to write, but the island has its own story . . . Off the windswept coast... Continue Reading →
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