Rating: 4🌈 Dusk’s Devotion is a terrific way to wrap up this western romance trilogy with its roots in another hockey romance series. Locey ties up all loose storylines and manages to end the nasty ongoing feud that’s been a persistent flashpoint point of so many troubling events between the two major neighboring ranchers. Told… Continue reading Review: Dusk’s Devotion (Blue Ice Ranch #3) by V.L. Locey
Month: July 2022
Review: Obsidian Island by Arden Powell
Rating: 3 🌈 Based on the description, Obsidian Island easily fits into the historical gothic horror genre that’s wonderfully scary stuff to read. Especially if it’s well written, with a subliminal message of dread building along with suspenseful actions flowing through the storylines. Coming from the author of the wonderful Flos Magicae Universe stories, I… Continue reading Review: Obsidian Island by Arden Powell
Review: Much Ado About Lady MacBeth by Rebecca Cohen
Rating: 4🌈 Rebecca Cohen dives back into Elizabethan England with Much Ado About Lady MacBeth. A enlarged, rewritten version of a short story, it takes place in the same universe as Cohen’s historical Crofton Chronicles. Those are favorite books of mine featuring a certain Earl and actor Sebastian, who is very present here! It’s wonderful… Continue reading Review: Much Ado About Lady MacBeth by Rebecca Cohen
Review: Elusive Relations (Valor and Doyle Mysteries #2) by Nicky James
Rating: 5 🌈 From the seething long- standing animosity between their two departments, Homicide and MPC , has emerged an incredible series and two books to date focused on a detective from each department. Each man with his own personal traumas and battles, opposing personalities, differing family histories, as well as departmental bad blood between… Continue reading Review: Elusive Relations (Valor and Doyle Mysteries #2) by Nicky James
Review: Broken In by B.A. Tortuga
Rating: 5🌈 Broken In, B.A. Tortuga’s new release , is definitely my favorite of all her most recent stories. It’s got all the elements I expect from a B.A. Tortuga tale, but elevated into well developed, beautifully defined book, where every aspect of the story and all the characters damaged past histories flow smoothly into… Continue reading Review: Broken In by B.A. Tortuga
Review: Chef Vs Chef (Sizzle in the Kitchen #2) by M.J. O’Shea
Rating: 2.5🌈 Chef Vs Chef is the second of the four book Sizzle in the Kitchen series by M.J. O’Shea and it’s the one I’m stopping on. Honestly I’m dumbfounded by this book. All the characters and elements I admired and found charming in the first book, which set the foundation for the series,have been… Continue reading Review: Chef Vs Chef (Sizzle in the Kitchen #2) by M.J. O’Shea
Review: The Reluctant Companion (13 Kingdoms #1) by H.L. Day
Rating: 4.5🌈 The Reluctant Companion is exactly what I was hoping to read when I saw the words whimsical fantasy adventure! The first in the 13 Kingdoms series by H.L. Day, it just encapsulated all those things that have made me love this type of book since adolescence . It’s got a glorious, technicolor cover,… Continue reading Review: The Reluctant Companion (13 Kingdoms #1) by H.L. Day
Review: Chef in the Wild (Sizzle in the Kitchen #1) by M.J. O’Shea
Rating: 3.5🌈 Chef in the Wild by M.J. O’Shea has a number of good elements going for it as a contemporary romance. The first of a series, Sizzle in the Kitchen, it’s center is a recently fired celebrity chef trying to climb his way out of burnout and a stressed out talented food truck chef… Continue reading Review: Chef in the Wild (Sizzle in the Kitchen #1) by M.J. O’Shea
Review: The Infidelity Clause by Lisa Oliver
Rating: 2.5🌈 I was looking forward to this book based on the blurb and some of the reviews, but it was definitely not the story I anticipated. Btw, spoilers ahead. First of all there is no solid world building here. The Infidelity Clause by Lisa Olivier was lacking in a consistent foundation for its storylines.… Continue reading Review: The Infidelity Clause by Lisa Oliver
Review: Rogue (A Mike Bravo Ops #2) by Eden Finley
Rating: 4.5🌈 Eden Finley’s done it again with another wildly entertaining and suspenseful black ops novel! This time, it’s Rogue, the second book in the Mike Bravo Ops series about a black ops security firm made up of LGBTGIA ex military. While Rogue has some similarities to the first book , like the couple already… Continue reading Review: Rogue (A Mike Bravo Ops #2) by Eden Finley
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 