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Ardent reader of pretty much anything, including the backs of shampoo bottles. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Pooja's Quick Questions interview.)

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Books, Friends, and… Murder?

The Tuesday Night Survivors' Club by Lynn Cahoon

June 21, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

After surviving cancer, Rarity Cole moves to Sedona, Arizona, opening a bookstore and starting a book club for fellow cancer survivors. When a new member, Martha, disappears, Rarity, her best friend Sam, and the other book club members start investigating the case. I’m not one much for cozy mysteries, as in a way I can find them oppressive when they part too much from reality. But I was drawn to The Tuesday Night Survivors’ Club because of the unusual focus – a group of cancer survivors – […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: ARC, audiobook, cozy mystery, Lynn Cahoon, NetGalley

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:84 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: ARC, audiobook, cozy mystery, Lynn Cahoon, NetGalley ·
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BookTok Made Me Do It

The Land Where Sinners Atone by V.F. Mason

June 20, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Phoenix Hale is convicted of manslaughter for the death of Zachary King’s wife, and he, unsatisfied, arranges to make her life an endless torment. But it turns out Phoenix is innocent, and when she is released, the pair are forced to work together to stop a serial killer before they can strike again. I am not one much for BookTok, but it is a fun way to find books I’d probably not come across otherwise. The video about this book attracted me immediately because of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: booktok, dark, mystery, Romance, Suspense, V.F. Mason

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:83 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: booktok, dark, mystery, Romance, Suspense, V.F. Mason ·
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“In the secret code of flowers”

Enola Holmes: The Graphic Novels: The Case of the Missing Marquess, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady, and The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets by Serena Blasco

June 20, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

After her mother disappears, Enola Holmes runs away from her brothers, the famous Sherlock and Mycroft, and falls into solving mysteries in Victorian London. I have of course seen the promos for the Netflix film Enola Holmes, though I haven’t actually seen it yet. I knew it was based on a series of YA books, but I’d never read them either. So when I saw that there was a graphic novel adaptation on NetGalley, I thought it would a fun introduction. Besides, I like the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: ARC, Graphic Novel, historical, mystery, NetGalley, Serena Blasco, YA

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:82 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: ARC, Graphic Novel, historical, mystery, NetGalley, Serena Blasco, YA ·
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“You can check-out any time you like/But you can never leave!”

Hotel California by Don Bruns, Heather Graham, Andrew Child, John Gilstrap, Reed Farrel Coleman, Amanda Flower, Jennifer Dornbush, Rick Bleiweiss

June 20, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

In this anthology of eight crime stories, the reader is introduced to a quite wide cast that includes multiple hitmen and detectives, a senator, an influencer – and a whole bunch of victims. I don’t read many anthologies, but I do make an exception for ones consisting of crime stories. I think the mystery genre is one of the most diverse when it comes to the way authors explore its common tropes. Hotel California‘s central theme is that each story is inspired by a song […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Short Stories Tagged With: Anthology, ARC, crime, Don Bruns, Heather Graham, Andrew Child, John Gilstrap, Reed Farrel Coleman, Amanda Flower, Jennifer Dornbush, Rick Bleiweiss, mystery, NetGalley, short stories

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:81 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Short Stories · Tags: Anthology, ARC, crime, Don Bruns, Heather Graham, Andrew Child, John Gilstrap, Reed Farrel Coleman, Amanda Flower, Jennifer Dornbush, Rick Bleiweiss, mystery, NetGalley, short stories ·
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The Last Days of the Free Comanche

Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson

June 18, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Captured in a raid, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is adopted by a Comanche couple and becomes integrated into the tribe, given the name Naduah, and eventually grows up to marry a Comanche chief. I love long lush historical fiction, especially older ones that lean more heavily into sprawling plots than most modern books. Ride the Wind delivered on all these fronts, and told a fascinating true story to boot. I enjoyed the style of writing, which was somewhat purple at times but created a vivid sense of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: colonialism, historical fiction, Lucia St. Clair Robson, Native American, romance, wild west

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:80 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: colonialism, historical fiction, Lucia St. Clair Robson, Native American, romance, wild west ·
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Spinster Meets Beast

Chasing the Earl by Kathleen Ayers

June 15, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Emmagene and Henry attend a house party to support their friends’ wedding, but because they are not very popular people, they are constantly thrown together by the hostess – which turns out to be not a bad thing after all. I picked up this book because I was interested in how the author would convince me to invest in a romance with two quite unlikable leads – truly unlikable, with her cutting sternness and his beastliness, not merely unpopular. Spoiler alert: the author manages it. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: ARC, England, historical romance, Kathleen Ayers, NetGalley, Regency, Romance

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:79 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: ARC, England, historical romance, Kathleen Ayers, NetGalley, Regency, Romance ·
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