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Review: How to Keep an Author (Alive) by A.J. Sherwood

Rating: 4.25🌈 I was looking for something short to read to keep my morning procrastinating streak going and found it in How to Keep an Author (Alive) by A.J. Sherwood. Justus LeGrange, a 250 year old South African vampire, uses the Vampire Agency for Mortal Professions in Nashville, looking for a job that will help… Continue reading Review: How to Keep an Author (Alive) by A.J. Sherwood

Review: The Hitman’s Guide to Righting Wrongs While Causing Mayhem ( Hitman’s Guide #4) by Alice Winters

Rating: 4.5🌈 The Hitman’s Guide to Righting Wrongs While Causing Mayhem is the fourth book in Alice Winters series about a retired hitman who’s now happily married and in business with his PI husband. We’ve followed their hilarious , zany, sometimes murder-filled lives, from the meeting at the infamous and now enshrined Fence all the… Continue reading Review: The Hitman’s Guide to Righting Wrongs While Causing Mayhem ( Hitman’s Guide #4) by Alice Winters

Review: The Less Than Spectacular Times of Henry Milch (The Wyandot County Mysteries #1) by Marshall Thornton

Rating: 4 🌈 Marshall Thornton is a great writer and a favorite author of mine. So I was happy to see a new story in a brand new series just released from him. The Less Than Spectacular Times of Henry Milch has many of the terrific elements I expect from a Marshall Thornton book. It… Continue reading Review: The Less Than Spectacular Times of Henry Milch (The Wyandot County Mysteries #1) by Marshall Thornton

Review: Rivals (Harrisburg Railers #11) by R.J. Scott and V.L. Locey

Rating: 4.75🌈 Our favorite hockey players head to China, well not really, but in a well imagined story, Ten, Jared, Stan, Tate, Ryker, Colorado, Bryan, and Vlad all end up heading to Bejing for the Winter 2022 Olympics. Thanks to Covid, the NHL players and committee ended up pulling out of this year’s Olympics but… Continue reading Review: Rivals (Harrisburg Railers #11) by R.J. Scott and V.L. Locey

Review: Fluke and the Faithless Father (Fantastic Fluke #2) by Sam Burns

Rating: 5 🌈💫 After reading The Fantastic Fluke I had to immediately go to the next in the series to see what happens next. Imagine how surprised I was to find this (and probably all the other books) flow seamlessly from one to another. The beginning here is exactly the last paragraphs of the ending… Continue reading Review: Fluke and the Faithless Father (Fantastic Fluke #2) by Sam Burns

Review: O Hell, All Ye Shoppers by Louisa Masters

Rating: 3.5🌈⛄️ A slightly revamped edition of a short story Louisa Masters released in 2017, O Hell, All Ye Shoppers is a meet cute, sexy holiday romance. Everything happens quickly, from the “meet cute” to the idea that they are ideal for each other to the ending. A holiday Bonbon you partake of before settling… Continue reading Review: O Hell, All Ye Shoppers by Louisa Masters

Review: A Sanctuary for Soulden (The Lords of Bucknall Club #4) by J.A. Rock and Lisa Henry

Rating: 4.5 🌈 In Rock and Henry’s marvelous Regency series, The Lords of Bucknall Club, the authors start with a premise that history zigged instead of zagged in 1783 when the Marriage Act Amendment was introduced in England to allow same sex marriages. Why? Because it wanted to encourage childless marriages between the many lesser… Continue reading Review: A Sanctuary for Soulden (The Lords of Bucknall Club #4) by J.A. Rock and Lisa Henry

Review: Right as Raine (Aster Valley #1) by Lucy Lennox

Rating: 4 🌈 I had started this series with the third book in the series and decided to backtrack to the beginning and I’m glad I did. I really enjoyed the first installment and my introduction to the location of Aster Valley . The relationship and romance between Mikey Vining, personal chef and son of… Continue reading Review: Right as Raine (Aster Valley #1) by Lucy Lennox

Review: Wake The Dead (Godstones Saga #3) by Jocelynn Drake

Rating: 5🌈 Well that was wonderfully unexpected! So many twists and wild turns in this installment to keep my brain in a whirl until the fourth book is released in January. So many I honestly did not see coming, and I’m a very suspicious person. Love when that happens. Wake the Dead is such a… Continue reading Review: Wake The Dead (Godstones Saga #3) by Jocelynn Drake

Review: Ever After (Chester Falls #7) by Ana Ashley

Review: 3.75 🌈 How To Catch A Happily Ever After by Ana Ashley is the author’s Chester Falls series finale and ties up loose ends for all the series couples. While there’s one overall story, it really feels more like a series of connected anecdotes or narratives about every couple in the series. It brings… Continue reading Review: Ever After (Chester Falls #7) by Ana Ashley