This Car Sux!: Tales and Tips from a Life of Wheeling and Dealing by Randy Pressgrove A FREEWHEELING INSIDER ACCOUNT OF THE BASTARDS, BANDITS, AND BOZOS OF AMERICA’S CAR BUSINESS— AND WHAT YOU SHOULD REALLY KNOW BEFORE YOU BUY A CAR—FROM A FORTY-YEAR AUTO INDUSTRY VETERAN. From the moment he ... more >
Dear Kate Elliott When Dear Author received an email offering this anthology for review I asked whether I needed to have read the Spiritwalker series (which begins with Cold Magic) first or if it could be read as a stand alone. I have Cold Magic on the TBR of Doom ... more >
Dear Patricia Briggs, Blind Date With a Werewolf is a novel told in five short stories (plus a brief epilogue), featuring Asil (“the Moor”), one of my very favourite werewolves (admittedly there are a few of them but still) in the Alpha & Omega/Mercy Thompson universe. Three of the short ... more >
I met my Goodreads challenge of 100 books this year with a few to spare – in looking at my five star reads I realised I had an exceptionally high percentage of them – around 30%. For this list I disregarded those books released before 2024, re-reads or re-listens and ... more >
I am not a great reader of short stories; my go-to reason being that I really like to get lost in a book and its characters. Short stories don’t really allow for that, in my mind. On the other hand, as I’ve gotten older I feel like my attention span ... more >
“Holly and Ivy”- The Napoleonic Wars are over. Troops are returning home to a joyous Christmas, except for Surgeon Jake Frost, who must escort a hypochondriac captain, barely wounded at Waterloo. Jake prepares to hate every minute of the ordeal, until he meets the hypochondriac’s fiancé. “Yours Sincerely” – Madeline ... more >