Category: Book Reviews

Action/Adventure, Book Reviews, Books for Young People, Fantasy, Fiction Writing, New Words Learned, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thrillers, Words

The Connection – a Review

by Lisa • April 6, 2021 • 10 Comments

Bea Walker’s life is about to be turned upside down.

Notes from the Bonfire – a Review

by Lisa • April 2, 2021 • 1 Comment

What is poetry? This art form isn’t willing to be defined, labeled, or nailed down. Its words are the chiseled marble of language. It is a paint-spattered canvas, but the poet uses words instead of paint, and you are the canvas.

The Wife Who Knew Too Much – a Review

by Lisa • March 16, 2021 • 2 Comments

In this psychological thriller, Nina is the first Mrs. Ford. She is extremely wealthy and highly suspicious of her husband, Connor. She is so suspicious that she writes a letter in case she is found dead of an apparent suicide, pointing authorities to her husband and his girlfriend.

The Riddle Murders – a Review

by Lisa • March 4, 2021 • 1 Comment

New York City is experiencing a deadly heatwave. Lieutenant John Brannagan doesn’t think anything could make this heatwave worse, but he is wrong.

A Child Lost – a Review

by Lisa • March 3, 2021 • 5 Comments

While attending Mundelein College, Elsie discovers a young girl apparently living in the caretaker’s hut. When she learns why and how Anna came to be living with Gunther, she wants to help.

Cleo Can Tie A Bow – a Review

by Lisa • February 10, 2021 • 4 Comments

What little girl doesn’t like bows? Cleo doesn’t just like bows, she loves them. She wears bows in here hair, around her waist, and on her shoes. The bed, walls, and curtains in her bedroom are decorated with bows.

Surviving Crazy – a Review

by Lisa • January 19, 2021 • 1 Comment

When a solar flare causes the loss of cars and anything electrical, everyone goes crazy. Will anyone manage to survive?

Shadow Revealed – a Review

by Lisa • January 11, 2021 • 0 Comments

The vampires in The Second Species series do a lot of things—they have wings, they fly, they fall in love, they drink blood, they kill—but they do not sparkle. Since they live and walk among humans, sparkling would be a dead giveaway. Marek even owns a restaurant in New Orleans. But not all is well in their world.

Murder of a Runaway – a Review

by Lisa • January 9, 2021 • 2 Comments

Inspector Sheehan is back. A young oriental woman is found murdered in the garden of a wealthy man. She doesn’t appear to have been a druggie but rather someone wealthy who took good care of herself. Inspector Sheehan and the Serious Crime Unit are called in to investigate.