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...
by Michelle | Dec 5, 2020 | Audiobook, B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2020
Oh, Harry Dresden, how I have missed you! Even though Jim Butcher collated his short story collection, Brief Cases, two years ago, I used this collection to reintroduce myself into Harry’s world. The stories served to refresh my memory and filled in some blanks...
by Michelle | Aug 27, 2020 | B Author, Book Review, Books Read in 2020, Review Copy
In the Shadows of Men by Robert Jackson Bennett is VERY different from his other novels. With it, however, he confirms his status among my coveted must-read list. I don’t even like short stories, but I thoroughly enjoyed this spooky one. At 120 pages in length,...
