Friday, January 31, 2025

January 2025 Rereads







Role Playing by Cathy Yardley
Four stars
This book came out July 1, 2023
Borrowed as audiobook from Kindle





The Camelot Caper by Elizabeth Peters
Three and a half stars
Vicki Bliss #0.5
This book came out in 1969
Borrowed as audiobook from Libby






Sleep No More by Jayne Ann Krentz 
The Lost Night Files #1
Three and a half stars
This book came out January 3, 2023
Followed by The Night Island
Audible book of mine








This book comes out August 4, 2020
Meg Langslow #27
Follows Owl be Home for Christmas
Audible book of mine





The Gift of the Magpie by Donna Andrews
Meg Langslow #28
This book came out October 20, 2020
Followed by Murder Most Fowl
Audible book of mine





Murder Most Fowl by Donna Andrews
Meg Langslow #29
This book came out August 3, 2021
Audible book of mine




Three and a half stars
Meg Langslow #30
This book comes out October 19, 2021
Audible book of mine




Round up the Usual Peacocks by Donna Andrews
Meg Langslow #31
Four stars
This book comes out August 2, 2022
Audible book of mine





Meg Langslow #32
Four stars
This book came out October 11, 2022
Borrowed as audiobook from Libby





Birder She Wrote by Donna Andrews
Four stars
This book comes out August 1, 2023
Meg Langslow #33
Bo






The Vanishing by Jayne Ann Krentz
Fogg Lake#1
Three and a half stars (bumped up a half star on reread)
Followed by All the Colors of the Night
This book came out January 7th, 2020
Audiobook from Libby




All the Colors of Night by Jayne Ann Krentz
Fogg Lake #2
This book came out January 7th, 2021
Follows The Vanishing
Followed by Lightning in a Mirror
Audiobook from Libby








Lightning in a Mirror by Jayne Ann Krentz 
Fogg Lake #3
Three and a half stars
This book came out January 18th, 2022
Audiobook from Libby






Three stars
This book came out March 3, 2022
Borrowed from Kindle Unlimited









Not My Kind of Hero by Pippa Grant
Four stars
This book came out August 15, 2023
Borrowed from Kindle Unlimited

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

The Gossip and the Grump by Pippa Grant

At her best friend's wedding, Sabrina told a secret about her fiance. She thought Emma knew the secret so when their third best friend spilled said secret and Emma didn't know, Sabrina was wrecked. She immediately set out to balance her karma. One of her good deeds? Pretending to be the significant other of a man at a bar so that the scary woman hitting on him would go away. She ended up spending a significant amount of time with the man she only knew as "Duke". Imagine her surprise when he shows up in Snaggletooth later, the man who's bought her family coffee house.
Greyson is shocked to see his one night stand in the tiny mountain town. He's even more shocked to learn that she's the cousin of the man he's trying to get revenge on. But will their burgeoning relationship dreail his plans?
I didn't competely love their story but it was generally entertaining.

Four stars
This book came out October 5, 2023
Three BFFs and a Wedding #2
Borrowed as ebook from Kindle Unlimited
Opinions are my own

Monday, January 27, 2025

Cursed Princess Club Volume Four by LambCat

In the last book, Nell predicted that one of the cursed princesses would die. The princesses are trying not to think about that. In fact, Gwen is thinking about planning a dinner party. And she asks Frederick for help. She is finally starting to feel better about herself, her reflection isn't showing as many cracks. But, of course, she's not there yet. 

Four stars
This book comes out January 28, 2025
Follows Vol. 3
Followedy by Vol. 5
ARC kindly provided WEBTOON Unscrolled and NetGalley
Opinions are my own



Friday, January 24, 2025

Mistress by Amanda Quick

Believing the Earl of Masters to be dead, Iphigina Bright takes on a daring role pretending to be his mistress in order to uncover the identity of the person blackmailing her aunt.
But the Earl is not dead, and he's come to town to claim his mistress.

Four stars
This book came out June 1, 1994
Borrowed audiobook from Audible
Opinions are my own

Thursday, January 23, 2025

The Ink Master's Silence by C.J. Archer

 In a previous book, a man, one India thought was a friend, published an article releasing the knowledge that magic is real. Now, the man's editor is dead. But was the person aiming for Oscar Barratt or was the editor the actual target. 
There is no shortage to the number of people who would prefer that magic would be shoved back into Pandora's Box. But it's too late and now India's become a focus for the people who find magic to be a source of amusement. 

Three stars
This book came out September 5, 2017
Glass and Steele #6
Borrowed as ebook from Libby
Opinions are my own

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Snowed in with Mr. Heartbreaker by Pippa Grant

I'm not much for age gap nor for novellas but this one was fine. Fine-ish. I finished it. 
We've got a friend of a heroine from a previous books and the next-to-last member of Bro Code. 
Aspen and Cash were texting each other before she started living in the smaller house behind his house. Then they met in person and were instantly attracted but each have their own reasons for not wanting to make a move on the other. 
Now, it's Christmas and they're at a Christmas party. They are caught under the mistletoe but Aspen runs. Cash follows her to a small cabin but they are in the mountains, there's a storm, and a bear, and a tree. They have to spend some time alone but near enough to each other to share heat. 
There was the whole storyline of Aspen not liking Christmas but then it was resolved "off screen" and that annoyed me.

Two and a half stars
Copper Valley Bro Code #5
This book came out January 7th, 2021
Borrowed as ebook from Kindle Unlimited
Opinions are my own

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Mystique by Amanda Quick

One of Amanda Quick's rare foray's into historical fiction not of the Regency genre. Alice is a woman of learning in the 1600's. She's a little bitter because she wasn't able to save her father's estate for her crippled brother. However, she takes solace in her studies. When she buys an unusual green stone, which is subsequently stolen from her, she crosses paths with Hugh, the Relentless, who is also looking for the stone. Hugh decides that, though Alice is a little older and more outspoken than the usual bride, she is his choice. There is some wrangling, Alice is headstrong and doesn't obey orders, she wrecks Hugh's plans for revenge, but in the end, they fall in lurv.

Four stars
This book came out June 1, 1995
Audiobook from Audible
Opinions are my own