Tag Archives: mini-review

Deadly Little Scandals, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Posted on May 29, 2023 by Amanda

This book is the follow-up of Little White Lies. Because I liked the first book, I knew this would be a good one to bring with me on vacation to read on the airplane and throughout the week. No chance … Continue reading →

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Nightbirds, by Kate Armstrong (audio)

Posted on April 28, 2023 by Amanda

Magic is forbidden by the church, but it lives on deep inside certain women, kept hidden by rich families to do their bidding with a kiss. On the surface, this is the story of three teenage girls forced into a … Continue reading →

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The London Séance Society, by Sarah Penner

Posted on April 24, 2023 by Amanda

Lenna is a scientist at heart, but after her sister’s murder, she travels to Paris to meet with a renown spiritualist, Vaudeline. Vaudeline has fled London due to the danger posed by unscrupulous fraudsters there. With Lenna at her side, … Continue reading →

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The Longest Race, by Kara Goucher and Mary Pilon (audio)

Posted on April 21, 2023 by Amanda

Subtitled: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike’s Elite Running Team From the subtitle of this book, I expected it to be part memoir, part exposé about the Nike Oregon Project. While it is that, the … Continue reading →

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The Neighbor Favor, by Kristina Forest

Posted on April 7, 2023 by Amanda

Lily is an editor’s assistant, dreaming of moving into a different part of the publishing world and struggling to live up to her family’s successes. Nick is a journalist who once published an obscure novel while running from his past. … Continue reading →

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The Alchemist of Riddle and Ruin, by Gigi Pandian (audio)

Posted on January 16, 2023 by Amanda

Zoe’s friend Heather is confronted by what she believes is the ghost of her teenage best friend, Riddle (Ridley), who was murdered 16 years before. Zoe doesn’t believe in ghosts, and knows it’s more likely – though still not terribly … Continue reading →

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Ghost 19, by Simone St. James (audio)

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Amanda

It’s 1959, and Ginette has been sent to upstate NY by her doctors “for her mental health,” where she becomes trapped in a house haunted by its past. This is another story that leans heavily on the trope of watching … Continue reading →

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A Turn of the Tide, by Kelley Armstrong (audio)

Posted on October 17, 2022 by Amanda

In this third volume of the Time Stitch series, Miranda sneaks off to the time stitch only to find herself not in the 21st century, but back in the 18th. She’s just in time to stop a murder that she’s … Continue reading →

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Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas (audio)

Posted on September 9, 2022 by Amanda

As this is the sixth book in the Lady Sherlock series, I’m not going to go into a whole lot of detail. We’ve reached the point in the Sherlock series (if I understand the original Sherlock) where Holmes has come … Continue reading →

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Two Short Nonfiction Books

Posted on August 15, 2022 by Amanda

I read both of these over the weekend – two short little nonfiction books that I’ve decided to mini-review because I don’t have much to say about either of them. Community Cats – Anne Beall Subtitled: A Journey Into the … Continue reading →

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