[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…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 An affecting and poignant collection of short stories, each of them featuring strong characterization and a struggle, of some sort, with deep and emotional impact, arising out of the kinds of quandaries ordinary people - people just like us - can end-up finding themselves lost in. Several…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 An absorbing and chatty Scottish-based mix of Agatha Christie meets Emmerdale, this is the first of the Dr. Cathy Moreland series I have had the pleasure to read - a situation I would like to remedy quickly. Dr. Cathy is an earnest, sincere woman, a somewhat-frazzled GP…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 A creepy and sinister atmospheric thriller, suffocating and murky, that will get under your skin and hold you captive, lamp-lights burning (and doors locked) as you read on, losing conviction (but still optimistic! ) that you will be able to figure it all out. We. They.Insider. Outsider.Visitor.…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ Like waves on an ocean, inexorable and relentless, this brilliant and devastating book washes over you, forcing an acknowledgement, a look squarely in the eye, of a time when the shattering abuse of First Nations parents, and their innocent and helpless children, was not only prevalent, but…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A top-notch psychological thriller, this book will leave you reeling, heart a-flutter, shaking your head at the clever and oh-so-neatly-executed twist of a (tidy) ending. Infused with menace and foreboding, saturating each page with such deadly apprehension (for this reader, deeply reminiscent of reading the best work…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A stunningly-candid, painfully-beautiful memoir of one incredibly successful woman’s journey, a microcosm of joy and trauma, peeled back in the spirit of illuminating, exposing, and ultimately revealing hidden truths that just may resonate as some of the kindest and most caring hard-earned learnings “women like us” need…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Which of us hasn’t dreamed of starting over - a new life, a braver life, a chance to give center-stage to the long-buried and treasured, following the heart and acknowledging at last that “nothing that makes you smile that insanely could possibly be a bad idea”. Whatever…