[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”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 An absolutely delightful picture-book re-telling of the fairy tale, “Little Red Riding Hood”, from the perspective of the infamous Wolf, the much-maligned anti-hero who it may turn out, is not such a bad guy, after all. This fractured fairy tale is funny, charming, gorgeously illustrated, and is…
[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…
[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.…