B- Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / Contemporary / detective / enemies to lovers / friends-to-lovers / friendship / LGBTQIA+ / m/m romantic elements / Missouri / mystery / police procedural / Small-Town5 Comments
Please note: If you think this series might be of interest to you may wish to avoid this review—it’s full of spoilers for books one through three. Start with my review of Pretty Pretty Boys, book one in the series, instead. Trigger warnings: Dear Gregory Ashe, I got hooked on ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads#ownvoices / Contemporary / detective / enemies to lovers / LGBTQIA+ / Missouri / mystery / Parenthood / police procedural / Small-Town6 Comments
Please note: If you think this series might be of interest, you may wish to avoid this review—it’s full of spoilers for books one and two. Start with my review of Pretty Pretty Boys, book one in the series, instead. Trigger warnings: Dear Gregory Ashe, Recently I got into your ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / Contemporary / Hanukkah / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / New York City / Small-Town / upstate New York4 Comments
Sarah Goldman loves Hanukkah, and she’s thrilled to be appointed as vice chair of the Hollowville Hanukkah Festival. So when the festival is threatened with cancellation, she comes up with an idea: a new slogan and advertising campaign topped off with a metal menorah large enough to fill the center ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readschildren / children's fiction / family relationships / fathers and daughters / middle grade / mothers and daughters / Post WWII / second chance at love / Small-Town / Texas / widow4 Comments
For fans of Kate DiCamillo’s Louisiana’s Way Home, this heartwarming novel tells the story of ten-year-old Glory Bea as she prepares for a miracle of her very own—her father’s return home. Glory Bea Bennett knows that miracles happen in Gladiola, Texas, population 3,421. After all, her grandmother—the best matchmaker in ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1950s / Drumberley series / family drama / family relationships / farming / Historical / Post WWII / Scotland / Small-Town1 Comments
James Dering and his new wife Rhoda are returning from their honeymoon, and Jock and Mamie Johnstone are delighted to welcome them to their new home on a neighbouring farm. But Mamie’s concern proves justified, and Rhoda, a talented painter who has chosen marriage over art, finds rural Scotland lonely ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews / F ReviewsContemporary / hotelier / Scotland / security / Small-TownComments Off on REVIEW: Can’t Buy Me Love by Janet Elizabeth Henderson
It turned out hell was a small town in the Scottish Highlands. Oh, sure, the locals called it Invertary, but Agnes Sinclair knew better—the town even had an old woman everyone called Satan. If that wasn’t a sign she was in hell, she didn’t know what was. All Agnes had ... more >