As mentioned in a previous blog - My Body is a Battleground (My Journey of Ovarian Surgeries) - I am having surgery to remove a growth...

GENRE: Adult Romance LENGTH: 353 pages PLOT English teachers Logan Maletis and Rosemary Hale are former childhood best friends turned...

While this is primarily a book review blog, I occasionally share my poems here as well. My poetry is how I process the things that happen...

GENRE: Adult Thriller LENGTH: 1,310 pages (over 4 books) BOOKS IN SERIES: Finlay Donovan is Killing It, Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead,...

1. Color Me Murder by Krista Davis (Adult Cozy Mystery) (275 pages) (4⭐️) Florrie Fox is a coloring book artist and bookstore manager....

GENRE: Adult Cozy/Historical Fantasy LENGTH: 317 pages PLOT Emily Wilde is a professor and scholar of dryadology (the study of faeries)....

GENRE: Adult Historical Fantasy LENGTH: 370 pages PLOT Fifteen years after escaping from the witch’s gingerbread house, Greta and Hans...

GENRE: Adult Mystery LENGTH: 341 pages PLOT Podcaster Rachel Krall is recruited by the FBI in order to help solve the case of a missing...

GENRE: Adult Fantasy Romance LENGTH: 498 pages PLOT Violet Sorrengail has spent her life training to be a scribe, but her general mother...

1. Murder at the Beacon Bakeshop by Darci Hannah (Adult Cozy Mystery) (329 pages) (4.25⭐️) After a bad breakup, Lindsey Bakewell moves to...

GENRE: YA Historical Fantasy LENGTH: 396 pages PLOT Inez Olivera's parents go missing in Egypt and she travels there to uncover the truth...

GENRE: YA Fantasy LENGTH: 822 pages (across 2 books) PLOT Elspeth Spindle lives in the misty kingdom of Blunder where there are two types...

Are you feeling a little lonely and blue this Valentine's Day? Why not curl up on the couch with a good book as your date? These 5...

1.Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig (YA Fantasy) (430) (4.5⭐️) This is the sequel to One Dark Window and follows Elspeth, Ravyn, and...

GENRE: YA Fantasy LENGTH: 1,234 (across 3 books) PLOT Yumeko and Tatsumi are charged with delivering the Dragon Scroll to a lost temple....

1. One Dark Window by Rachel Gilig (5⭐️) This novel follows Elspeth who has a monster known as the Nightmare living inside her head. She...

THE BEST BOOKS I READ IN 2023 1.Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen (Adult Magical Realism) This is the story of the residences (human,...

1. Calling of Light by Lori M. Lee This is the final book in the Shamanborn trilogy which follows Sirscha who has rare light magic. The...

OCTOBER 1. Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas (YA Fantasy) (384 pages) (4⭐️) Wendy and her brothers went missing five years ago and...

GENRE: Adult Thrillers LENGTH(S): The Christmas Murder Game: 275 pages Murder on the Christmas Express: 241 pages PLOT(S) The Christmas...