B+ Reviews / Book Reviewsaddict / Contemporary / Dark / Drugs / dysfunctional family / First-Person / horror elements / murder mystery / nanny / New-Jersey / Paranormal / present tense / Young-Adult6 Comments
From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a creepy and warm-hearted mystery about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes ... more >
Book Reviews / C+ Reviewsclass differences / Contemporary / cooking / gentrification / Harlequin / New-Jersey / POC / POC author / Puerto Rican / restaurantsComments Off on REVIEW: A Delicious Dilemma by Sera Taíno
It’s hard to remain enemies when you’ve broken bread together Val Navarro’s first mistake: going out dancing after a bad breakup when the chef should be focused on her family business. Her second mistake? Thinking the handsome, sensitive stranger she meets could be more than a rebound – until she ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsAsian Americans / Chinese-American MCs / coming-of-age / family relationships / First-Person / high-school / immigrant / New-Jersey / parents / POC / POC author / racism / Young-Adult8 Comments
David Tung is a Chinese American high-school student in an upscale, Asian-majority, New Jersey suburb who works every day at his family’s restaurant and strategizes every homeroom about how to improve his class rank so he can get into an Ivy League college. His only release? Hanging with his “real” ... more >
C+ ReviewsAvon Impulse / Contemporary / First-Person / New-Jersey / Paranormal6 Comments
Dear Ms. Lynn, The first book in this series, “Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman,” was a pleasant surprise for me. It’s totally unlike what I normally read and in fact contains some elements I would have sworn would keep me from enjoying it but … enjoy it I did. ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsAvon Impulse / Contemporary / First-Person / New-Jersey / Paranormal15 Comments
Dear Ms. Lynn, Honestly, if someone told me a week ago that I’d be reading a book about a woman with a crappy life who survived a car wreck with only a concussion that now lets her communicate with a pet lizard and that in order to pay the astronomical ... more >
B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsNew-Jersey / screwball-comedy / wedding7 Comments
Dear Mrs Frankel, This has to be every woman’s nightmare. The details have been haggled over for months, the $$$ dress has been bought, guests are gathered, the shrimp is marinating, the ice sculpture is being chiseled into shape and the groom is a &^%$#@ no show. And if the ... more >