Book review
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“Well, there you have it.” I flicked the board with my pencil. “Five suspects and one victim.” Book 1 in the Sea Glass Beach Mysteries series. Paige Andrews is enjoying life with her friends and family in the picturesque beach town, Sea Glass Beach, but when a notorious local cooking celebrity is found dead and…
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We’ve had a perfectly modern city for years, and now, all of a sudden, there’s ancient things everywhere. A cute, cozy fantasy full of heart about Wisp, a goblin who grows up on the mean streets of Liston, a fantasy port town full of commerce, prospects and prejudice. Wisp does her best to scrape by…
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Ad/PR/Patrocinado. Many thanks to Boldwood Books and NetGalley for this ARC of A Season for Justice by John Pilkington, book 3 in the A Justice Belstrang Mystery trilogy. Publication date today, Aug 17, 2026. I’m Robert Belstrang, of Thirldon by Worcester: former justice, and in pursuit of the same. The year is 1618, and a…
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For Stacking The Shelves hosted by Reading Reality I’m posting the books I’ve added to my digital library this week, and the blurbs that made me download them in the first place. A Curse for Samhain by Dahlia Donovan From Amazon: Gender fluid, autistic vampire Hyde Snodgrass runs Between the Leaves—a cosy village book store.…
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‘Gran,’ Maddie hissed, though she couldn’t help but laugh too. ‘You can’t say that.’‘I’m eighty-two; I can say anything I like,’ Nor replied Book 1 in the Maddie Penrose series. Maddie Penrose is suffering from burnout in her demanding job as a chef in the fancy London restaurant, Chez Lucie. Meanwhile, her eighty-two-year-old grandmother Nor…
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It had taken weeks, and the first time she had Changed, it had been so blindingly painful that she’d vomited and passed out. Book 1 in The Infernal Devices series. Tessa moves from New York to London to join her brother Nathaniel, but instead finds herself plunged into a mysterious world of Shadowhunters, demons, vampires,…
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Every nation has secrets, myths, and legends attached to its founders. Book 1 in the Indie Retirement Mystery series. A history focused mystery centered around the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, or the Meck Dec for short. To believers, the Meck Dec is proof that patriots in North Carolina declared independence from Great Britain in May…
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For Stacking The Shelves hosted by Reading Reality I’m posting the books I’ve added to my digital library this week, and the blurbs that made me download them in the first place. I’ve read The Retirees by Leah Orr and really enjoyed it, my review is posted here on my blog. The rest of these I…
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Ad/Pr/Patrocinado. Many thanks to Orrplace Press and NetGalley for the ARC of The Retirees by Leah Orr. The Retirees was published Jan 5, 2026. Never a dull moment where the land meets infinity. Discover the wonder at The Ocean’s Edge. A fun, edgy and modern retirement community mystery with a paranormal element. When seventyfour year…
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