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“I am a museum of art but you had your eyes shut”

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

December 14, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

Official book description: milk and honey is a collection of poetry about love loss trauma abuse healing and femininity it is split into four chapters each chapter serves a different purpose deals with a different pain heals a different heartache milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in the life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look Poetry is just one of those genres I don’t really read, at […]

Hungry like the wolf

Wolfsong by T.J. Klune

December 14, 2019 by Malin 3 Comments

Official book description: Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road. The little boy who talked and talked and talked. Ox found out later the little boy hadn’t spoken in almost two years before that day, and that the little boy belonged to a family who had moved into the house at the end […]

Julie Anne Long’s return to historical romance is more successful than Lisa Kleypas’

Angel in a Devil's Arms by Julie Anne Long

December 12, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

Official book description: He has devil’s blood in his veins. At least, that’s always been the legend. How else could the Duke of Brexford’s notorious bastard son return from the dead? The brutal decade since Lucien Durand, Lord Bolt, allegedly drowned in the Thames forged him into a man who always gets what—and who—he wants. And what he wants is vengeance for his stolen birthright…and one wild night in Angelique Breedlove’s bed. Angelique recognizes heartbreak when the enigmatic Lord Bolt walks into The Grand Palace […]

Another rather forgettable Harris book

Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris

December 12, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

Official book description: Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town. There’s a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). There’s a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there’s new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his […]

Charlotte plans an art heist

The Art of Theft by Sherry Thomas

December 10, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

This is the fourth book in a five book series. It’s not really the best place to begin. This review will also possibly contain spoilers for earlier books in the series. A Study of Scarlet Women is where you want to start. Official book description: As “Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective,” Charlotte Holmes has solved murders and found missing individuals. But she has never stolen a priceless artwork—or rather, made away with the secrets hidden behind a much-coveted canvas. But Mrs. Watson is desperate to help her old […]

I would probably have liked this better if the protagonist was the sister

The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler

December 7, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

Official book description: Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, ran off six years ago and now reads tarot cards for a traveling carnival. One June day, an old book arrives on Simon’s doorstep, sent by an antiquarian bookseller who purchased it on […]

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