Horrostor by Grady Hendrix
This was a great little send up of not only haunted places, haunted buildings, and ghosts, it was done in a clever way by having it happen in the American version of a lesser IKEA. I ended up liking all of the characters very much and really liked the backstory on the site of the Orsk furniture store. The main reason why I didn’t give this one 5 stars is that the book started to drag after a while and also thought the ending was […]
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Updated review: September 12, 2022 I really enjoyed this re-read. I didn’t love the second book in the series as much, but this first one still gives me all the feels. Allen does such a great job of depicting the two sisters and I loved all of the people who lived in Bascom and the “gifts” so many had. Original review: Funny, I love this book, but honestly don’t remember the last time I read it. After finishing “Garden Spells” I went and read book […]
Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
Such a shame. I have been waiting on a new Sarah Addison Allen book for years. I absolutely love her older books and this one just didn’t do it for me. Somehow in her other books she’s always been able to transport me to a fictional town where it seemed magic leaked around the edges. Instead this book seems to be missing that. Maybe because the grief in these pages just crowded out everything else. And I think that due to that I wasn’t able […]
Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch
I think it’s time for me to put a pin in this series. I haven’t enjoyed it for a while now and the book seems to be signaling some characters are going to be gone in a few. I just have zero interest to keep reading about Peter and Beverly and everything else going on in London that mere mortals don’t know about anymore. It’s not a bad book, just a very boring one. It goes on forever it feels like. And we still have […]
Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs
Well. I have been reading about Mercy Thompson for a really long time. The series has its highs and its lows. It felt like the last few books were really in the lows. I couldn’t even take comfort in the Alpha & Omega books anymore because it just felt we were reading the same plot repeatedly. But this one finally allows Mercy and Adam to just be. To just be happy. To just be in love. To just be a team. To just have the […]
The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell
Will forever be baffled how this book was depicted as a thriller and suspense novel. There is an underlying mystery about Adrian Wolfe’s third wife, Maya. But it’s beyond boring when all is revealed. And I swear the way the book just glosses over kind of the awful things his 5 children acted was so bizarre to me. I just kind of shook my head and wondered what story was Jewell trying to tell? Was it a story cautioning men out there looking to always […]
