Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Not too much to say about this one, it’s honestly a 3.5 star read, but I don’t round up on my reviews anymore and just let you all know, this is not a 4 star read, but definitely not a 3 star read. I think parts of this worked really well, and others not so much. For me, I think it would have worked better if you had […]
Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes
About a week or two ago, I went to the bookstore intending to buy one specific book (in this case, it was Katherine Arden’s The Winter of the Witch, which I have also since completed and is now on my ever-growing list of books to review). As is usually the case for me, and against all my good intentions, I came out carrying a number of books greater than one. One of my unintended purchases was Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes (if that name […]
The Black Tower by Louis Bayard
I greatly enjoyed Louis Bayard’s The Pale Blue Eye and was excited to pick this one up as well given how effectively he wrote his other historical mystery. And though I liked it a hair less, it did not disappoint. There has always been a curiosity amongst conspiracy theorists wondering what if some historical figures survived death. Hitler in the bunker. The princes in the Tower. And Louis-Charles, the dauphin of France and rightful heir to the throne of his father, Louis XVI. Sadly for him, he […]
Grave Expectations by Alice Bell
The Crime Brulee Bake Off by Rebecca Connolly
You ever just start scrolling down your library’s “available now” page, even though you have eleventy-seventy thousand books in your TBR mountain? Yeah, me too. And that’s how I wandered into two pretty good, but out of my usual genre, cozy-ish mysteries that I came here to recommend. They’re both debut novels, and I read them on audio – They have the same narrator, Sophie Roberts, who did such a great job w/The Crime Brulee Bake Off, and that I clicked her name to see […]
The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
History, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge TITLE: The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag REVIEW: It is complex. It is different. It is familiar. It is sad. It is confusing. It is straight forward. It is something you have never read before. It is something you know. You will get something from it and everyone else will get their own thing, but everyone will experience it emotionally. Or not. Just read it already, alright I cannot tell you about this book as I am not really 100% […]
Pizza Witch by Sarah Graley and Stef Purenins
Inclusion, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge I find books mostly as reader copies and finished copies. Now, I try to have the reader copies physically in hand (it’s easier for me to read) but sometimes (and a lot more lately) I must settle for an online reader copy. And Pizza Witch by Sarah Graley and Stef Purenins came to me in an email that sent me to the graphic novels link to read. Due in mid September 2025, you’ll have a bit to wait before you […]
