by Michelle | Mar 10, 2021 | B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2021, Review Copy
While Rena Barron’s debut novel, Kingdom of Souls, failed to blow me away, its sequel Reaper of Souls did just that. Gone are the repetitiveness of the writing as well as the one-dimensionality of the characters I found most distracting. In their place is an...
by Michelle | Jan 25, 2021 | B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2021, Review Copy
True to form, Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks is a well-written glimpse into the hardships of the past. Moreover, it involves a story that does not get much exposure but one that reflects today’s culture even as it picks apart the past. Ms. Brooks has...
by Michelle | Jan 7, 2021 | B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2021, Review Copy
I read Charles Belfoure’s first novel and loved it. I read his second novel and thought it was okay. I skipped his third novel because I thought it was too similar to his previous ones. When I saw that he transferred his focus to Imperial Russia, I knew I had to...
by Michelle | Dec 23, 2020 | Audiobook, B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2020
Battle Ground by Jim Butcher, book seventeen in the Harry Dresden series, starts at the exact point where Peace Talks ends. In fact, my hypothesis that the two were essentially the same story split into two books ended up being correct, not only because of the lack of...
by Michelle | Dec 17, 2020 | B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2020, Review Copy
In her latest novel, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, Marie Benedict takes the real-life, unsolved mystery of Agatha Christie’s eleven-day disappearance and imagines what actually happened during that time. We have no way of knowing how accurate Ms....
by Michelle | Dec 12, 2020 | Audiobook, B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2020
It has been over two years since we received a new Harry Dresden novel from Jim Butcher. Given the length of time that we had to wait for a new book, readers could only have high expectations for the next book in a serious. Thankfully, Peace Talks is completely worth...
