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A House With Good Bones

A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

December 28, 2022 by Classic 2 Comments

Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not effect my rating or review. The main thing I will say is that this novella reads really similar to T. Kingfisher’s “The Twisted Ones.” At one point I wondered if I had accidentally started re-reading it. But even though it hits some of the same elements (terrible grandmother) it has some different ones (main character is a bug doctor). The novella jumps around a lot I thought. Things didn’t really gel for me […]

Getting in the last of my 2022 Reviews!

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardous

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

December 28, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

Girls Made of Snow and Glass (3 stars)-Not bad, but I started to get bored halfway through the book. Liked both characters points of views (Mina and Lynet), but I started wanting the story to go faster. I liked the idea of these two characters really wanting the other to be more (Lynet wanting Mina to be her mother and Mina wanting to be Lynet’s mother) and them being pulled apart by terrible men. But, after you keep reading, the book falls apart. I think […]

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Hide by Kiersten White

December 20, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

Good lord. This was agonizing. I started this book for Halloween Book Bingo and it is now December people. This past week has been me cleaning up library borrows that I keep re-requesting but never want to finish. This had an interesting premise that quickly went to [redacted] and I got tired of reading it. The characters started off interesting, and then as a friend of mine said, they slid real quick into paper-thin caricatures. This was in the end, just a really bad horror […]

Drunk On Love

Drunk On Love by Jasmine Guillory

December 20, 2022 by Classic 2 Comments

Bored to tears. The last few Guillory books didn’t do a thing for me and this one was the same. I thought the first two of her books were great and now they just feel lacking to me. This one I didn’t care about the heroine (Margot) and the hero (Luke). This was insta-lust, forbidden love (she’s Luke’s boss, or one of them), but also I guess work colleagues. I don’t know, I think when Guillory was at least making her romance novels fit some […]

Quick Reviews

Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews

Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

December 18, 2022 by Classic 2 Comments

Sweep of the Heart (5 stars)- This was freaking fantastic. Dina and Sean definitely show us what two innkeepers can do when everything they have is on the line. I can’t wait for the next book! “Sweep of the Heart” follows the awesome events in the last book and novella. Dina and Sean have hit a nice rhythm until things take a turn and one of Sean’s werewolves friends gets kidnapped. The kidnappers have dropped him on a planet with a portal that will be […]

A Point in Time Series Review

Naomi's Gift by Martha Hall Kelly

Ash Wednesday by Paula McLain

Landing by Olivia Hawker

We are Bone and Earth by Esi Edugyan

A Wild Rose by Fiona Davis

Alison's Conviction by Thomas Keneally

Mother Swamp by Jesmyn Ward

December 6, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

Per usual, here are my reviews for each short story in the collection. Overall, this collection at times moved me and made me do more research on certain events brought up which is why my reading this week was slow (for me). Naomi’s Gift by Martha Hall Kelly (5 stars)-Phenomenal. You can figure out where Kelly is taking you, but I honestly was shocked at the the whole Holocaust camp for women/mothers/children. I keep thinking that there is nothing that could shock me at that […]

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