Sunday, January 4, 2026

Murder, Hijinks, and the Peridot Cufflinks by Lynn Rankin-Esquer

A year ago, Izzy Bishop had a near-death experience that super charged her already average sense of others. In the last book, she finally accepted that she might have some psychic abilities. Now, she's fully embraced the idea but is trying to figure out how to wield it well. Her first sense  of the book almost breaks a couple up. Then she senses something mysterious about one of the organizing client's significant other. This particular client was a sports star who has a LOT of money. When she touches a pair of cufflinks in his closet, she gets a vision of violent death. The person who died? Her archenemy Shania's elderly husband. 

stars
Order Out of Chaos #2
Follows Murder, Mess, and the Tangerine Dress
ARC kindly provided as ebook by XandL Press and Netgalley
Opinions are my own

Saturday, January 3, 2026

The Shop on Hidden Lane by Jayne Ann Krentz

There has been a Harper-Wells feud for generations. Krentz tells us that quite a bit in this book. But that feud seems to have been broken by Sophy's aunt, Bea, and Luke Well's uncle, Deke. And the two have discovered that because Bea and Deke have disappeared.
Luke is in line to inherit his family's company specifically because he has no psychic talent. At least, that's what everyone thinks. However, he is unusually good at pulling data together and coming to conclusions. Most often, this happens when he dreams. He's come to the conclusion that he needs help because he needs someone who can read crime scenes.
Bea is a librarian. She also reads crime scenes and can clear bad energy from a space. In the recent past, she's also had a series of failed experiments, men who have seen her work and then run away. One even called her a succubus.
Of course, these two are going to fit together and they'll figure that out in the three days this book covers. If you enjoy Krentz, I think you'll like this book. 

Four stars
This book comes out January 6, 2026
Loosely connected to the Fogg Lake books
ARC kindly provided by Berkley Publishing Group and NetGalley
Opinions are my own

Friday, January 2, 2026

Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Colleen Oakley

It's Jane and Dan's nineteenth anniversary (he seems to think it's their twentieth.) Dan won a reservation to a very exclusive restaurant that were for that same night so they are off to have an adventure. Well, sort of. This is the night that Jane is going to tell Dan that she wants a divorce. Except that, right after they are let in to the restaurant with the world's most expensive dessert, the restaurant is invaded by a group of masked gunpeople. They are after a specific patron, one who is not there yet. 
As the night unfolds, both Jane and Dan will have to confront some home truths about themselves, about their family, and about the beliefs they have about the lives they are living. And also, why this all seems to be unfolding like the book Jane wrote six years ago that only three hundred people have read. 
An interesting book with a fun twist although the end stretched my belief suspension just a little too much, but overall enjoyable.

Three and a half stars
This book came out March 11, 2025
Borrowed as audiobook from Libby
Opinions are my own

Thursday, January 1, 2026

Double Fudge by Judy Blume

There are two Farley Drexel Hatchers? That's what Pete and his family discover on a trip to Washington, D. C. There, Pete's father rediscovers his cousin, Howie. Howie also has two girls, Flora and Fauna, who are about Pete's age in addition to the Farley who is a couple years younger than the Fudge we've grown to know and love. 
We also get to see past series favorites like Sheila Tubman and Jimmy Fargo, the latter of whom is moving out of the neighborhood with his father which upends Pete's world to no end.
Everything is changing but many things stay the same. A little more out there than some of the books in this series but still enjoyable. 

Four stars
Fudge #5
This book came out September 30, 2002
Borrowed as audiobook from Libby
Opinions are my own


Wednesday, December 31, 2025

December 2025 Monthly Rereads

Opinions are my own

To Kill a Badger by Shelly Laurenston
Three and a half stars
Honey Badger Chronicles #6
This book comes out August 26, 2025
Audible book







Guild Boss by Jayne Castle
Three and a half stars
Ghost Hunters #14
This book came out November 16th, 2021
Follows Illusion Town
Audible book




Sweetwater & the Witch by Jayne Castle
Three and a half stars
Ghost Hunters #15
This book come out September 20, 2022
Follows Guild Boss
Audible book




People In Glass Houses by Jayne Castle
Three and a half stars
Ghost Hunters #16
This book comes out May 7, 2024
Followed by It Takes a Psychic
Audible book






It Takes a Psychic by Jayne Castle
Three stars
Ghost Hunters #17
This book comes out June 3, 2025
Audible book





Mister McHottie by Pippa Grant
Three stars
Girl Band #1
This book came out October 30, 2017
Followed by Stud in the Stacks
Audible book




Stud in the Stacks by Pippa Grant
Three and a half stars
Girl Band #2
Followed by Rockaway Bride
This book came out January 5th, 2018
Borrowed as ebook from Kindle Unlimited
Opinions are my own








Rockaway Bride by Pippa Grant
This book came out June 29th, 2018
Girl Band #3
Borrowed as ebook from Kindle Unlimited




Pilot & the Puck-up by Pippa Grant
Four stars
The Copper Valley Thrusters #1
This book came out February 16th, 2018
Followed by Royally Pucked
Audible book







Royally Pucked by Pippa Grant
Three stars
This book came out April 6, 2018
The Copper Valley Thrusters #2
Royals #1
Followed by Rockaway Bride
Audible book







Beauty and the Beefcake by Pippa Grant
Three and a half stars
The Copper Valley Thrusters #3
Followed by Charming as Puck
This book came out May 17th, 2018
Audible book



Charming as Puck

Charming as Puck by Pippa Grant
Three stars
Copper Valley Thrusters #4
This book came out February 1st, 2019
Followed by I Pucking Love You
Audible book




I Pucking Love You by Pippa Grant
Three stars
This book came out April 8th, 2021
Copper Valley Thrusters #5
Followed by The Secret Hook-Up
Audible book








Jock Blocked by Pippa Grant
Copper Valley Fireballs #1
Three stars
Followed by Real Fake Love
This book came out May 19th, 2020
Audible book


Real Fake Love by Pippa Grant
This book came out September 3rd, 2020
Copper Valley Fireballs #2
Three and a half stars
Audible book




Three stars
Copper Valley Fireballs #3
This book came out July 8th, 2021
Copper Valley Fireballs #3
Audible book




Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Four stars
Legends & Lattes #0
This book comes out November 7, 2023
Borrowed as audiobook from Libby




Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Four and a half stars
Legends & Lattes #1
This book came out February 22, 2022
Borrowed as audiobook from Libby

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

Alice Scott was sent an intriguing email. Margaret Ives, the heiress whose family was known for tragic deaths and over the top scandals, is supposedly living on a small island and selling artwork. When Alice tracks her down, she asks to write Margaret's biography. But it turns out that she's not the only writer in the running. As she's leaving, Pulitzer prize winning Hayden Anderson is walking in. It turns out the two will be in town for a month long audition. 
The town is small and super-sunshine Alice keeps running into grumpy Hayden and the two start spending time together. While we see the two of them getting to know each other, we also get a history of the Ives family. The story with Alice and Hayden was lovely.  The Ives instersitials were... fine but broke up the main story more than I would have liked. Overall a very nice story, though. 

Four stars
This book came out April 22, 2025
Borrowed as hard copy from the library
Opinions are my own

Monday, December 29, 2025

Have Yourself a Grumpy Little Christmas by Pippa Grant with Emma Wilder (Narrator), Teddy Hamilton (Narrator)

We know a bit about hero Trevor from the previous four books in the series. He's a baseball player, a pitcher at the end of his game. He was facing the end of his career in previous books but was pulled back from the minors just in time to help the Copper Valley Fireballs win the World Series. He is not a fan of the Christmas season and is being driven nuts by his roommate. 
Meg O'Connell is Trevor's best friend's little sister. She's also the nanny of Zeus and Joey's quad-zeuslets. She loves her job and she loves Christmas. She also needed a place to stay in Copper Valley which is why she is temporarily living with Trevor.
In true best-friend's-sibling trope, they have both liked each other for a long time but have not given in to said feelings for... reasons.


Four stars
This book came out January 1, 2022
Copper Valley Fireballs #4.5
Borrowed as ebook from Kindle Unlimited
Opinions are my own