[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Turning the last page of this mesmerizing novel I was sorely tempted to begin the book all over again. Did I get the author’s intent? With an ending deliberately (and fiendishly) ambiguous, this book was quite likely the most tantalizing read I have encountered in a very…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 What can I say that hasn’t already been said? Here again, as we’ve seen before, Ann Cleeves, one of my all time favorite authors, writes like no other, in this, Book 9 of the wonderful Vera Stanhope series. In this story we meet Lorna Falstone, a beautiful…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A harrowing look at all the things we take for granted, and how close we could be to a world without them. What happens when a solar event (a happening which occurs on a smaller scale, constantly) , translates into an Earth-bound geomagnetic storm - of a…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Easily my favorite feel-good series, this, the penultimate book in the #HedgehogHollow series, may just be the best of all. With all the gang back, settling into this story (as is the case with this entire gorgeous series) is a familiar and comforting visit with dear friends,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 💫 What happens when a missing wife, who mysteriously and ominously vanished, without a trace, six long years ago, appears to have suddenly returned? For Andrew Mason, a thirty-something building contractor, long burdened by the stain of suspicion that has haunted him throughout the years following the…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 An achingly poignant, speculative look at Motherhood, perhaps the ultimate in narcissism, or could it be the exact opposite - a no-holds-barred absorption of identity, choice, and being, into the single-minded pursuit of the well-being and nurturance of another. With mounting insight, the author examines the choices…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Wow. Lost in the afterglow of this book, sneaking up on you with its originality and quiet brilliance, until all of a sudden, whoosh, you’re basking in it so deeply there’s no escape till you’ve sucked in every last glimmer and ray. The fifth in the Chastity…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 A softly graceful look at what could be called destiny, fate, or simply the lucky encounter of two troubled Londoners, looking for escape, a second chance, and the healing embrace of a gorgeous (if somewhat decrepit) country mansion in the magnificent Sussex Downs. The first in a…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 As dependable a treat as the coldest, sweetest, ice-cream on a summer day, any book by Ann Cleeves, including this hot-off-the-press installment (#10) in the glorious #Vera series, will not disappoint. Vera, back with all the brash, brave, headstrong (and unabashedly offensively-leaning) determination she brings to any…