by Michelle | Mar 18, 2021 | Book Review, Books Read in 2021, K Author, Review Copy
Alma Katsu typically writes horror novels, so imagine my surprise when I find out that her latest novel, Red Widow, is a spy thriller. Not only that but she used her 35 years as a spy/analyst in the CIA as fodder. With that type of experience, I had high hopes for...
by Michelle | Mar 17, 2021 | Book Review, Books Read in 2021, Review Copy, Y Author
Namesake by Adrienne Young is the second half of a fabulous duology involving one of the toughest heroines you will ever meet. Fable is not just physically tough, but she has the mental fortitude to go up against the most heartless of merchants/mercenaries. This time...
by Michelle | Mar 16, 2021 | Book Review, Books Read in 2021, Review Copy, S Author
Down Comes the Night is Allison Saft’s debut novel. As a debut, it is a perfectly adequate story involving two war-torn countries on the brink of another disastrous war and two enemies who learn to look beyond the surface to see the truths lying underneath. As...
by Michelle | Mar 15, 2021 | Book Review, Books Read in 2021, H Author, Review Copy
While the first book in the Havenfall series was adequate, I hoped Sara Holland’s sequel, Phoenix Flame, would focus more on what I liked and less on what I didn’t. Unfortunately, she doesn’t. Phoenix Flame is a rather boring sequel with nothing...
by Michelle | Mar 11, 2021 | Book Review, Books Read in 2021, F Author, Review Copy
Ever since Jim and I went to Biltmore Estate for our honeymoon over two decades ago, I have had a strange fascination with the Vanderbilt family. Therefore, I opened Therese Anne Fowler’s A Well-Behaved Woman, her story about Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, with...
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...
