Showing posts with label two and a half stars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label two and a half stars. Show all posts
Sunday, January 5, 2025

Tea, Tiramisu, and Tough Guys by Harper Lin

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Franny is contending with another death when a local man is murdered outside a gym. She is bemused to discover that the man who owns the gym...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Christmas Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke

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I hadn't read a Hannah Swensen book in a long time but a friend told me that they had gone off the rails in sort of a fun way. So. I was...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch by Sarah Hawley

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Calladia Cunnington is proud of her physique. She's strong and really quite bad ass. Just because her mother and a former boyfriend trie...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Big Nate: Next Stop, Superstardom! by Lincoln Peirce

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I knew that Big Nate had been turned into a TV show and wondered if this was the book version of that. It is. And, at some point it may be s...
Saturday, March 4, 2023

A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon

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I heard about this book on an episode of  Smart Podcast Trashy Books . They made it sound fun and interesting and Kindle Unlimited had it av...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Murder at the Seaside Hotel by Sonia Parin

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Oh. My. Lanta. This book was SOOOOOO slow. I'd estimate that half the book is just Evie coming up with wild theories about the death of ...
Saturday, January 14, 2023

The Difference Between Us by Rachel Higginson

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Molly Maverick is happy for her BFF, Vera. Vera's in love and getting married.  It's just too bad that Vera's fiance comes along...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

Resting Witch Face by Juliette Cross

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There are trigger warnings at the beginning of this book and they are accurate. I hadn't been enjoying the violence in this series but r...
Sunday, November 27, 2022

Always Practice Safe Hex by Juliette Cross

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This is a series with a lot of "alpha male" archetypes but Gareth, though a reaper, may be the alpha-est of them all. And, while t...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

A Fake Girlfriend for Chinese New Year by Jackie Lau

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Zachary Wong knows that he needs to be preemptive. The last two holidays, his parents have invited prospective partners for he and his sibli...
Friday, November 5, 2021

Sizzle by Julie Garwood

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Never really connected with Lyra. She's not so different from many other Garwood heroines, plucky, rich-but-lives-simply, career-driven ...
Friday, May 14, 2021

Crazy for Loving You by Pippa Grant

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Daisy Imogen Carter-Kincaid is known in the tabloids as a billionaire party girl. She is footloose and fancy-free. Except that her cousin, f...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Badass Habits by Jen Sincero

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Benjamin Franklin had a theory that some people are abstainers and some people are moderators. Jen Sincero is definitely a moderator and see...
Sunday, March 7, 2021

The Fall of Shane MacKade by Nora Roberts

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Shane MacKade's brothers are dropping like flies. He loves women as much as the rest of them, but, only one for the rest of his life? Uh...
Monday, March 1, 2021

Cubicles That Make You Envy the Dead by Scott Adams

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I hadn't read a Dilbert book in quite some time and had a chance to borrow this for free so I thought, "Why not?"  Not much ha...
Sunday, February 7, 2021

Considering Kate by Nora Roberts

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Kate Kimball has been on the greatest stages of the world. But she is done with the world of ballet; she just wants to retire home in West V...
Monday, February 1, 2021

Waiting for Nick by Nora Roberts

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I think this book might have been a bit better in the nineties but it has always been the least favorite of the series. Freddie is fairly si...
Monday, December 28, 2020

The Strange Case of Harriet Hall by Moray Dalton

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I really wish that the added postscript on this story hadn't been included in the ebook version on Kindle. It is definitely dated and sa...
Saturday, December 12, 2020

Auld Lang Syne by Rebel Carter

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 Delilah Solis decides that she's going to stop being a doormat for her family and she's going to run away. Literally. She decides t...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Holiday for Two -- Anthology

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All Through the Night by Maggie Robinson Carrie Moore is an assistant for a famous mystery writer (think Jessica Fletcher on copious amount...