A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAgent/Spies/Undercover / enemies to lovers / epistolary novel / f/f romantic elements / LGBTQ fiction / POC / Science Fiction / Time-Travel / war10 Comments
Dear Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, One look at this 209-page time-travel novel’s blurb and I had to preorder it, so I’m reproducing that blurb here: Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. And thus begins an ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsChristmas / Contest / holiday novella / novella2 Comments
Will their competitive spirits ruin the spirit of Christmas? When Ben Winters and Lara Cottridge hear that a Vermont radio station is hosting a Christmas contest with a $10,000 prize for a charitable project of the winner’s choice, they seize the challenge. Although strangers, they both are obsessed with all ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsbirds / children's fiction / childrens-books / picture booksNo Comments
A young girl eagerly identifies and counts the birds she observes around her town during the New England Christmas Bird Count. Young Ava and her mother prepare to participate as “citizen scientists” in the Christmas Bird Count. She is excited when Big Al, the leader of their team, asks her ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended Readssci-fi romance / SFF / space opera6 Comments
Content Advisory: There are some scenes of slavery and torture in the book so readers please note. Dear Jessie Mihalik, I loved your previous book, Polaris Rising, which came out earlier this year and was the first in your Consortium Rebellion trilogy. While that book was mainly about Ada and ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsBattle of Britain / England / friends-to-lovers / Historical / mathematics / pilot / War / Military / World War II6 Comments
Breaking Point: A Novel of the Battle of Britain It is August, 1940. Hitler’s triumphant Third Reich has crushed all Europe—except Britain. As Hitler launches a massive aerial assault, only the heavily outnumbered British RAF and the iron will of Winston Churchill can stop him. The fate of Western civilization ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviewsclassic / cornwall / Smugglers / strong heroine12 Comments
Before I started Jamaica Inn, I had only read one book by Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca. But I did have an acquaintance with this story. I grew up in the golden heyday of television miniseries. Though the breadth and quality of television offerings available to us these days is ... more >