I enjoyed the romance and the action of the book. If you typically read paranormal romance I think this book is a good fit. Plus this is a standalone book. So it's like Nalini Singh's Psy Changeling series, each book will have a different couple. Which is nice!
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Canvassing and Under The Mask- A Superhero Romance!
I enjoyed the romance and the action of the book. If you typically read paranormal romance I think this book is a good fit. Plus this is a standalone book. So it's like Nalini Singh's Psy Changeling series, each book will have a different couple. Which is nice!
Saturday, February 10, 2024
I've been sick the whole month so far! Rude! #TheSundayPost
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I have spent this month with a miserable sinus infection. The worst is at night when I am coughing, coughing, coughing. It's still pretty bad but not as bad as last week, so I guess I'm getting better. I have done all the things you are supposed to do to alleviate symptoms. One problem I have is that I can't take any decongestant stuff because it causes me to have restless legs.
The other day my No Gouda Without You author copies arrived and I've been exhausted and sick to do an unboxing video! A total bummer!
I didn't have the energy or attention span to read or blog. I did manage to work on writing my second book, that's about all I could manage. My manuscript is due to my editor on March 2nd, so that was my motivator.
How are you doing? I hope you have not been sick! My fingers and toes are crossed that I start feeling better each day this week. I've got books to share here and I'd like to have the energy to read!
Wishing you a wonderful Valentine's Day!
Saturday, January 13, 2024
The Sunday Post, Week One Back to School In the Books
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Thankfully I have tomorrow off work. I love a nice three-day weekend. 2024 has brought the winter weather to Chicagoland. For the most part, we got off easy in December. We didn't have measurable snow and we had more than a handful of days in the 40s and even 50s. Now those days are gone and we have about five inches of snow blowing around and it's crazy cold! We are below zero Fahrenheit (-17 Celcius) until Wednesday.
I have said before on this blog that I have made a conscious effort to embrace the winter season. I've learned to appreciate the quiet of a cold winter day, to look forward to hot tea and lots of layers. But when it's below zero, ooof. That's too cold!
This weekend I worked on the proofreading edits and formatting of my book. Let me just say, I am learning so much about grammar and fun stuff like not using numerals in fiction.
How are things by you? Did you have a nice week? Read anything good? See any good TV or Movies?
This week on the blog I'll be talking about:
If you enjoy wondering if your narrator is unreliable..this is a book for you!Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Bungled! Out today! Who knew Sport Fishing Was So Deadly?
Stella starts Bungled: A Rylie Cooper Mystery out with a great hook, George the part-time park ranger explains to Rylie how to get yourself out of zip-tie handcuffs. Well, now I need to drop everything and read this book to find out if and when Stella is going to need to get herself out of handcuffs. As if that wasn't enough, then there are all the comments by friends and family members asking Rylie if she's sure she should get married. What a great distraction of a book!
I appreciated how Stella made a fishing tournament interesting for someone who doesn't fish. Her descriptions of how a fishing tournament works and ways one might try to cheat are seamlessly part of the narrative making sure they don't become information dumps for the reader.
The mystery keeps you reading and guessing about who did it and why, and the side characters are properly quirky. The book ends with Rylie questions her life choices and that is a good place to end things and get the reader interested in what will come next!
4 stars for Bungled: A Rylie Cooper Mystery. The perfect book to take with you fishing! Click here to add it to your Goodreads TBR.
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Sunday, February 28, 2021
Happy Pulaski Day! A Holiday Only Celebrated in Illinois! #BookReview
Some local government offices and some schools are closed today in honor of Casimir Pulaski who according to Wikipedia: "is praised for his contributions to the U.S. military in the American Revolution and known as "the father of the American cavalry".
Sunday, August 9, 2020
Who Wants Some Free Kindle Mysteries? Read On!
In honor of my isolated milestone birthday, I figured I would post freebies. Today I'm posting free Kindle books on Amazon. I haven't read these books, so I don't vouch for anything outside the fact that they are free and I liked the cover. You can read them on a Kindle or on a laptop/iPad or smartphone, just download the free Kindle App.
Happy Sunday!
xoxo
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Wanna Get Away? Travel via Book to Sunset Cove!
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
"A Novel Way to Die" is the second book in Tamra Baumann's Cozy Mystery Bookshop Series. (The first book is called "Plotting for Murder".) If you have already read "Plotting for Murder" I think you are going to love this second installment. I came into "A Novel Way to Die" without having read the first book so it took me a little bit longer to understand our main character and her eclectic community.
Tamra Baumann's does a wonderful job crafting this mystery! There are several points where you think you know who did it and who helped, only to find out there is more to the story. I enjoyed that she uses technology in the main mystery and I found it pleasing to read a Cozy Mystery that had major supporting characters from several different generations.
Not only does this book have a central murder mystery, but it also has some interesting ongoing mysteries that drawn in the reader into Sunset Cove and makes one look forward to future installments. What is going to happen with the bookshop? Will Sawyer's uncle thwart Sawyer? What will we find out about Brittany's mother? The non-murder mystery subplots are almost more fascinating than who killed the person in this book!
As a fan of Cozy Mysteries, this book really has it all- 1. small town, 2. a plucky heroine who can cook, 3. a cute dog, 4. a handsome sheriff, 5 a bookstore with a book club and 6. A witty best friend.
I look forward to going back and reading "Plotting for Murder" ASAP!
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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Thursday, June 14, 2018
Looking for Summer Reads? Try some Urban Fantasy
The Witch With No Name by Kim Harrison
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I started reading this book when it first came out and then I put it down for a few years, Why? It's the last book in Kim Harrison's Hollows Series and I wasn't ready to be done forever with Rachel, Ivy, Jenks and Al.
I thoroughly enjoyed the series. Back around book 7, I met Kim Harrison at a book signing. She is a lovely person. It's always nice when the writer whose work you look forward to reading is also pleasant and happy to answer questions about her stories.
I'm not 100% clear on the vampire resolution, like what will happen when Ivy dies her first death. Will there be some sort of vampire daisy chain? I'm not going to over think this, because I have to say I don't care as much about the vampires as I do the demons. The demon situation was resolved very satisfactorily.
I was disappointed on the fast forward that occurs in final chapters, I was really hoping to see Rachel and Trent marry and raising the kiddos (with Quen) shortly after the climax of the book. Ending with Rachel finally feeling like a full member of society would have been icing on the cake. Rachel says she is OK without a marriage, but I think we know better. Also Rachel's mom would love for her daughter to get married. 😊 Maybe Kim will do a short story follow up with a wedding, or maybe she has done one already and I don't know!
Having so many great books sitting in my TBR pile, and on my Audible wish list, I rarely re-read anything. However, The Witch With No Name did have me feeling surprisingly nostalgic and I want to go back to the beginning and read Dead Witch Walking now that I know how the story ends.
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On the writing front, tomorrow starts the #1000wordsofsummer challenge. You can click to join the challenge if you like to write! I'm excited because yesterday I figured out what to do with the date I accidentally sent my protagonist on with one of her co-workers. It's going to be awkward!