Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros was released a few weeks ago to a lot of excitement, and I’ve been making my way through it. It’s the third book in her Empyrean fantasy-slash-romance (which I guess is being referred to as Romantasy nowadays) series set in a world full of dragons and magical abilities. The third […]
Prologue (The prologue picks up immediately after the events of the second book, Iron Flame, following the death of Violet’s mother General Sorrengail, the restoration of the wardstone protecting all of Navarre and the realization that Xaden has turned venin — meaning he channeled dark energy, which he did in order to access extra power […]
Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson on December 3, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Paranormal / General, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy Pages: 416 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads “You are not who you are because of where you come from; you are who you are […]
The Housemaid’s Wedding by Freida McFadden on January 20, 2025 Genres: Fiction / Thrillers / Domestic, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense Pages: 74 Format: eBook Buy on Amazon Goodreads “They say rain on your wedding day is good luck. Death threats on your wedding day? Probably not so much.” Today is supposed to be the […]
Summer Island by Kristin Hannah on November 21, 2024 Pages: 319 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Kristin Hannah has a gift for writing emotional, deeply human stories, and Summer Island is no exception. This novel explores themes of family estrangement, forgiveness, and self-discovery through the story of Ruby Bridge, a struggling comedian who is […]
It was nearly midnight in the little village on the north shore of Loch Ness, but the sun still hung stubbornly in the sky. The loch’s placid surface was a blue-grey mirror. Seagulls cawed noisily overhead, interrupting the otherwise silent night. I checked into my tiny roadside cottage, decorated in kitschy Loch Ness Monster décor, […]
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young on November 12, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Magical Realism, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense, Fiction / Women Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads “All that time, she remembered me, she was just waiting for me to remember her.” In the small mountain town of Jasper, […]
In my informal, lifelong study of horse girls, which is widely accepted to be a gender neutral term within the community, I have found that we horse girls are usually born, not made. I wrote Presley and the Impossible Dream for all the horse girls who, like me, weren’t born into horsey families and had […]
Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Hernan Diaz on May 24, 2022 Genres: FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Fiction / Historical / General, Fiction / Literary Pages: 512 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads This is a book that you will want to focus on when you read it. This book is told […]
The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins on October 29, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense, Fiction / Women Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads “I answer to no one, only the tide.” Welcome to Eris: An island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the […]