[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 A reunion (long overdue) with Tracy Flick, heroine from the 1998 novel “Election”, and the character played so compellingly by Reese Witherspoon in the film adaptation. Perhaps less darkly comic and even more poignant and affecting in its satiricism, this latest installment re-introduces us to Tracy,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 This charming eight-book series is a lovely, meandering, heart-tugging look at life, at dreams, and the things you just know, in your heart, to be true and essential - to your self, your soul and your calling - and the path that just may unfold to reveal…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 “The Innocence Project did save lives. The debate was whether all of those lives deserved to be saved.” What happens when Hannah Rokeby, a third-year law student, manipulates her way onto the A-Team - a crackerjack trio of snappy young legal up-and-comers assisting Robert M Parekh -…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A gleeful romp, oozing with chaotic energy, magical realism, laugh-out-loud irreverence, dark warnings and so many insights that, if you’re at all like this reader, entire sections will be marked out and dog-eared for re-reading. In its essence a passionately-held treaty on our tremulous and vulnerable earthly…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 Like a hot cup of tea on a drizzly afternoon, coming home to another installment of the “HedgeHog Hollow” series is a creature comfort - a warm and cozy settling into your bones, as you sink into your favorite chair and prepare to sip and read and…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 The sixth installment of the addictive and immensely enjoyable DI Gaby Darin series, (the second this reader has had a chance to read so far) this story works well as a stand-alone novel. Based in North Wales, DI Gaby Darin is a petite yet fiercely-driven woman, a…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 Lilting and lyrical, this book is a gothic tale of faeries, changelings, and the magical mystical moonlight, quietly illuminating truth, and half-truth, and all the shades of pearly-grey captured in a web of lies. May Harper is a May-day child, born on May 1, 1941 in…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 A pulse-pounding, heart-racing ride with the faceless, homeless and forgotten - leftovers from life struggling to survive on the dangerous and desolate streets of Auckland, NewZealand - and in some cases, (perhaps very few) finding comfort and solace in numbers. Max Grimes, our third-person POV narrator, is…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 A tricky and twisty police-procedural that draws you into its web quickly, leading you down a complex path, leaving you convinced, at last, that you’ve figured it all out - until of course, you realize you haven’t. Not even close. Leading me astray not once, but…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A pure delight from start to finish, this fiendishly-clever thriller hooks its claws in sharply from page one, leading the reader down a twisty ever-deepening labyrinth of lies, murder, and intrigue, until the final dazzling drop - seemingly out of nowhere - into one of the most…