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November 12, 2020

REVIEW: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsbaker / Dark Fantasy / seige / Serial-Killer / War / Military / wizards / YA fantasy5 Comments

Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can’t control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt’s bakery making gingerbread men dance. But Mona’s life is turned ... more >

February 20, 2020

REVIEW: Paladin’s Grace by T. Kingfisher

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / HFN / LGBT characters / military hero / mystery / Paranormal / paranormal romance / perfumer / Serial-Killer7 Comments

Stephen’s god died on the longest day of the year… Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named Grace in an alley and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong. ... more >

February 18, 2020

REVIEW: The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1980s / college-student / dual-timeline / dysfunctional family / murder-investigation / mystery / Serial-Killer / strong heroine6 Comments

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Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move ... more >

October 30, 2019

REVIEW: Tallowwood by N.R.Walker

SiriusBook Reviews / C ReviewsAustralia / gay mystery / m/m romance / Serial-Killer3 Comments

Cold cases, murder, lies, and an unimaginable truth. Sydney detective August Shaw has spent the last decade of work solving cold cases. Since the death of his boyfriend eight years ago, August works alone, lives alone, is alone — and that’s exactly how he likes it. His work is his ... more >

June 20, 2017

REVIEW: The Drowned Girls by Loreth Anne White

KaetrinB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsCanada / crime thriller / police procedural / romantic-elements / Serial-Killer2 Comments

Trigger warning: graphic sexual and other violence – both in the book and in this review. Dear Loreth Anne White, One of my reviewer friends raved to me about this book and I was curious enough to give it a try. My friend also reads mysteries and thrillers and isn’t ... more >

April 25, 2016

REVIEW: The Obsession by Nora Roberts

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsPhotographer / romantic-suspense / Serial-Killer / Small-Town11 Comments

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Dear Nora Roberts, I look forward every year to your stand alone romantic suspense books. Not all of them work as well for me as others. Last year’s offering, The Liar, was great but it read to me more like a contemporary than a romantic suspense book and the year ... more >

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