Category Archives: Review

Review: What I Had Before I Had You by Sarah Cornwell

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Jenn

Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Harper (January 7, 2014) ISBN-10: 0062237845 Source: Publisher Olivia Reed didn’t have the most stable of childhoods. Her older sisters, twins, were stillborns who died a year before Olivia was born and are forever memorialized by … Continue reading →

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Mini-Review: Ex-Purgatory by Peter Clines

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Jenn

Series: Ex Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Broadway Books (January 14, 2014) ISBN-10: 0804136610 Source: Publisher George Bailey is your average, everyday kind of guy. During the day, he works as a handyman at a local community college. His nights, however, … Continue reading →

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Review: The Kept by James Scott

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Jenn

Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Harper (January 7, 2014) ISBN-10: 0062236733 Source: Publisher Set in 1867 at an isolated farm in upstate New York, Elspeth Howell, a midwife, returns home to find her husband and four of her children brutally murdered.  … Continue reading →

Posted in Harper Books, Historical Fiction, Mystery/Suspense, Review | 9 Comments

Review: Return to Tradd Street by Karen White

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Jenn

Series: Tradd Street (Book 4) Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: NAL Trade (January 7, 2014) ISBN-10: 0451240596 Source: Publisher Melanie Middleton is struggling to get on with her life after refusing Jack’s proposal.  Pregnant and determined to raise the child on … Continue reading →

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Review: Starter House by Sonja Condit

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Jenn

Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (December 31, 2013) ISBN-10: 0062283057 Source:  Publisher When Lacey and Eric, a young expectant couple, began their home-shopping journey, Lacey knew exactly what she wanted in a house.  Growing up with unstable living arrangements and a … Continue reading →

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Review: The Descent by Alma Katsu

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Jenn

Series: The Taker Trilogy Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Gallery Books (January 7, 2014) ISBN-10: 1451651821 Source: Publisher *Please Note: This is the third book in a trilogy. If you have not read the previous two books, The Taker and The … Continue reading →

Posted in Gallery Books, Paranormal Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Review | 3 Comments

Review: Rise Again Below Zero by Ben Tripp

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Jenn

Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Gallery Books; Original edition (December 17, 2013) ISBN-10: 1451668325 Source: Publisher It’s been two years since billions of the dead rose, hungry for human flesh. Sheriff Danielle Adelman now leads a band of survivors through the … Continue reading →

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Review: The Sowing by K. Makansi

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Jenn

Paperback: 290 pages Publisher: Layla Dog Press (August 14, 2013) ISBN-10: 0989867110 Source: Publisher After religious wars and subsequent famine destroyed much of the population, the society that remained formed an intricate set of farms all for the sake of  creating a food source … Continue reading →

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Review: Rustication by Charles Palliser

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Jenn

Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (November 4, 2013) ISBN-10: 0393088723 Source: Publisher It is the winter 1863. Seventeen year old Richard Shenstone has been suspended from Cambridge amid a cloud of suspicion. He seeks temporary solace in a crumbling old mansion … Continue reading →

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Cozy Mystery Week: Witch Way To Murder by Shirley Damsgaard

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Jenn

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Avon; English Language edition (August 30, 2005) ISBN-10: 0060793481 Source: Library Ophelia Jensen is a small-town librarian who refuses to acknowledge her psychic powers.  She moved to this small town after an incident from her past left her … Continue reading →

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