[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟1/2 Intricate, tightly-plotted mystery yarn with plenty of twists, red herrings, and deliberate misfires guaranteed to keep you shaking your head and guessing. The first in the “Midlands Crime” series, set in and around Worcestershire, Birmingham and Warwickshire, centering on a crime-fighting squad known as “Heart of England”…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 Richly immersive and entirely disturbing, this beautifully written book is destined to fascinate as much as it will horrify readers as unfamiliar up-close with this subject matter and historical time-period, as was this reader. Set in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, in the year AD…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ How to describe a book that alternately, makes you laugh out loud, cringe at the no-holds-barred misogyny of the fifties, grieve and ache (when your heart’s not soaring with delighted wonder), and throughout it all, cheer with wild abandon for the main protagonist Elizabeth Zott (a mother,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 Any book that starts with a Lorelai Gilmore quote is destined to be a book that this reader will love. And so it was! Katy Silver, our first person POV narrator, is a thirty year-old freelance copywriter, married to Eric, a dorkily handsome Disney film executive,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 A taut and twisty psychological puzzle, this book, exposing you to “Before” and “Now” timelines, alternatively told from the POV of the two main protagonists, will leave you tense and wondering just who you can trust, what to believe, and ultimately, just what the heck is going…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Warm, compassionate and cozy, this book is the closest you will ever come to a giant literary hug. The first in the Hedgehog Hollow series, this reader, after reviewing and falling in love with Book 4, (#aWeddingatHedgeHogHollow) is going back (with great joy) to read and review…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 A continuation of the author’s earlier work, this book picks up exactly where “Till Death We Do Part” left off. As our hero, Pablo, (our somewhat-reliable narrative voice), a smart, sensitive man, now in his late fifties, continues his struggle to accept his sudden and bitter divorce…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A quiet masterpiece, (in spirit somewhat reminiscent of Penny Haw’s brilliant #TheWildernessBetweenUs), set in a rural village deep in the vinelands of Germany, this is a story to be savored. As luminous as the first glimpse of a sudden and glorious sunrise, the slowly developing magic of…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 A brand new mystery series - featuring an odd and endearing trio of female sleuths, together forming one of the most unlikely crime-solving agencies (code named the SeeMs) you are likely to meet between the pages. Cat Harrington : multi-lingual, very tall, 60-ish, is a “tiger-mother” of…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 “In victory you deserve champagne. In defeat, you need it.” (Napoleon) An engrossing and illuminating look at one of the most fascinating female entrepreneurs to grace the pages of history - Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot - who in the early eighteen hundreds, went on to build Veuve-Clicquot…