Books
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Lone Star Book Blog Tour: Too Far Down
Today I’m joining up with Lone Star Book Blog Tour to bring you Too Far Down by Mary Connelly. This is a fun one! Check it out! TOO FAR DOWN Cimarron Legacy Book 3 by MARY CONNEALY Genre: Western Historical Christian Romance Publisher: Bethany House Publishers Date of Publication: October 3, 2017 Number of Pages: 322 Scroll down for the giveaway! With Danger Drawing Ever Closer, The Boden Clan Risk Losing Their Ranch Forever Having returned home to the ranch, Cole Boden finds himself caught between missing his time back east and appreciating all that New Mexico Territory offers. Sure, he fights with his siblings now and then, but he does…
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Lone Star Book Blog Tour: The Secret Room by John Alexander
THE SECRET ROOM (Amber-Autumn Series, #4) by JOHN ALEXANDER Genre: Children’s Mystery / Chapter Book Date of Publication: October 14, 2017 Number of Pages: 159 Scroll down for giveaway! Amber and Autumn, elementary school sisters, don’t seek out problems to solve, but they often find themselves engaged in uncovering truths, solving mysteries, and helping others in the process. Autumn’s natural curiosity, combined with her boldness, leads her to push for answers to anything she does not understand. Amber, her older sister, more cautious and easily spooked, prefers to let Autumn drive ahead to solve mysteries which come their way, but her keen skills of observation often lead to the resolutions…
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Book Review: Dying for Christmas
I’ll be reading a lot of “feel-good” Christmas tales, but I acknowledge that those aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. With that in mind, I’m bringing you something vastly different today. Because although Tammy Cohen’s Dying For Christmas is set over the Christmas holidays, there is nothing merry and bright about it. Curious? Check it out: Review of Dying For Christmas I may have mentioned that this is NOT your typical Christmas tale. In fact, it’s not a Christmas tale at all, so let’s get that out of the way right now. I think the phrase used in the synopsis – “most disturbing psychological thriller yet” – is…
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Monday Reads: Seeing Red by Sandra Brown
I’ve been a fan of Sandra Brown for years, so I was excited when her new book Seeing Red crossed my desk! I love a good mystery, and she is the queen of mixing mystery and romance. Read on for my review! Review of Seeing Red Sandra Brown delivers another successful thriller in Seeing Red. True to fashion, this suspenseful book has her trademark plot twists; I wasn’t sure who to trust, or what was coming next. Her plots are always well constructed, and this one does not disappoint. I’ve long been a fan of her writing style, as she brings together a great mix of tension offset by…
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Lone Star Book Blog Tour: Bombshell by Pamela Fagan Hutchins
BOMBSHELL (What Doesn’t Kill You, #9) An Ava Romantic Mystery by PAMELA FAGAN HUTCHINS Genre: Romantic Mystery / R-Rated Publisher: SkipJack Publishing Date of Publication: July 11, 2017 Number of Pages: 236 Scroll down for giveaway! Temp worker by day, lounge singer by night, single mom Ava is having a hard time breaking up with her long-distance boyfriend and making it without the support of her parents on the island of St. Marcos. Things improve dramatically when she lands a too-good-to-be-true job at a virtual currency exchange, where she meets a seriously sexy man, and goes to work for a boss so incredible he sponsors her on a trip to…
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Book Review: Death In D Minor
DEATH IN D MINOR by ALEXIA GORDON Genre: Paranormal Mystery / African American Sleuth Publisher: Henery Press Date of Publication: July 11, 2017 Number of Pages: 236 Scroll down for giveaway! Gethsemane Brown, African-American musician and expatriate to an Irish village, solved a string of murders and got used to living with a snarky ghost. She can rest easy now. Right? Wrong. The ghost has disappeared, her landlord’s about to sell to a developer, and her brother-in-law’s come to visit. She scrambles to call her spectral roomie back from beyond and find a way to save the cottage from destruction. But real estate takes a backseat when her brother-in-law is…
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Book Blog Tour: Lady Jayne Disappears
LADY JAYNE DISAPPEARS by JOANNA DAVIDSON POLITANO Genre: Historical Christian Romance Publisher: Revell Date of Publication: October 3, 2017 Number of Pages: 416 Scroll down for giveaway! When Aurelie Harcourt’s father dies in debtor’s prison, he leaves her just two things: his wealthy family, whom she has never met, and his famous pen name, Nathaniel Droll. Her new family greets her with apathy and even resentment. Only the quiet house guest, Silas Rotherham, welcomes her company. When Aurelie decides to complete her father’s unfinished serial novel, writing the family into the story as unflattering characters, she must keep her identity as Nathaniel Droll hidden while searching for the truth about…
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Blog Tour & Review: Mustaches for Maddie
Review of Mustaches for Maddie When a copy of the middle-grade book Mustaches for Maddie arrived in my mailbox, I had to wrestle it from my own sixth grader (also named Maddie) who was intrigued first by the title and then by the cover description. Inspired by their daughter’s own story (more on this below), authors Morris and Brown have crafted the inspirational, delightful (and sometimes heart-wrenching) story of a wonderfully quirky sixth grader who faces a pretty monumental health situation with bravery and an amazing attitude. They captured the voice of the middle schooler beautifully, the story itself reads more like fiction and less like the biography I was anticipating…
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Review: Alice Hoffmann’s The Rules Of Magic
I fear this may be a review that should have involved a thesaurus, so I will apologize in advance for the repetitive use of the word “magic” — but that is what this book is. It is MAGICAL. Seems to be a bit redundant, given the title, but I can honestly say this may be my favorite Alice Hoffman book to date. The Rules of Magic is the prequel to her 1995 novel Practical Magic. You definitely do not have to have read it to enjoy this book (but knowing that it was the prequel, I confess I did get my hands on a copy of Practical Magic to re-read…
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Review (And Giveaway!) – Finding My Badass Self: A Year of Truths and Dares
In less than a week, the kids head back to school and I will place order back into my life. But I confess: within that order (such as it was) last spring, I was feeling a bit of emptiness and a lot of feeling stuck. However, after reading Finding My Badass Self – A year of Truths and Dares by the delightful Sherry Stanfa-Stanley, this gem of a book has inspired me to get off my ass and maybe even out of my comfort zone. Fine – you won’t find me riding shotgun on a drug bust here in Dallas, and I’m still not down for a Brazilian wax. But…
