When trauma strikes the brightest stars, sometimes the only way forward is backward—to a place where healing grows as naturally as silver pines reaching toward Kentucky skies. Paisley Hope’s fourth installment in the Silver Pines Ranch series, Freeing the Wild, delivers a story that digs deeper than romance, exploring what it means to rebuild yourself […]
Stumps and Sovereignty by Sufghan Sarwar Khan Genre: Nonfiction / Sports ISBN: 9798895711866 Print Length: 384 pages Amazon Bookshop Reviewed by Peter Hassebroek A resourceful overview of cricket’s past, present, and future with an emphasis on the sport’s influence on South Asian nations and vice versa Events on the Indian subcontinent after World War II […]
Long Lost Midwife by Skye Smith Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense / Historical ISBN: 9781966799214 Print Length: 394 pages Amazon Bookshop Reviewed by Addison Ciuchta A slow-burn historical thriller about family secrets lurking in the past Pamela is newly married and terrified of having a child at the beginning of Long Lost Midwife. It’s a […]
Xingu by Edith Wharton was published in 1916. Xingu is satire of a pretentious ladies lunch and literature group set in the early 1900’s. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. Xingu by Edith Wharton Xingu by Edith Wharton IMrs. Ballinger is one of the […]
Grace Walker’s debut novel The Merge arrives at a moment when conversations about climate catastrophe, bodily autonomy, and technological ethics have never been more urgent. This speculative thriller imagines a world pushed beyond breaking point, where environmental collapse has given rise to a radical solution: a procedure that merges two people’s consciousness into a single […]
Rounding off 2025, we’ve got a new edition of Olga Tokarczuk’s early work House of Day, House of Night and a mesmerizing tale from Brazilian author Micheliny Verunschk. Enjoy 5 Incredible New Books for December 2025! This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. 5 Incredible […]
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, focuses on books I enjoyed that were outside of my comfort zone. This is my first Top Ten Tuesday post, and I find it challenging. I tend to read… Read More The post Top Ten Tuesday – Books I Enjoyed That Were Outside My […]
Amy Daws has carved out a delightful niche in contemporary romance with her Mountain Men Matchmaker series, and Honeymoon Phase, the third installment following Nine Month Contract and Seven Year Itch, delivers everything fans have come to expect: humor that lands with precision, emotional depth that sneaks up on you, and chemistry that practically ignites […]
David Baldacci has built a formidable reputation crafting complex thrillers across multiple series, from the Memory Man books featuring Amos Decker to the Will Robie and John Puller franchises. With Nash Falls, the first installment in his new Walter Nash series, David Baldacci ventures into darker, more psychologically complex territory than readers might expect. This […]
Rocco’s Wife by B.P. Faunce Genre: Literary Fiction ISBN: 9798891328334 Print Length: 478 pages Publisher: Atmosphere Press Amazon Bookshop Reviewed by Amy Brozio-Andrews A marriage in crisis, mental illness, and the obstacles one woman is willing to overcome for love Sadie Ignani has been content to consider herself Rocco’s wife, but as his mental illness […]