Friday, May 31, 2019

The Glass Mermaid

Title: The Glass Mermaid
Author: Poppy Lawrence
Publisher: Capture
ISBN: n/a
Why Read?: For Fun
 
Thoughts: Beautiful, bittersweet fantasy romance.

Rating: 4/5

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Indebted

Title: Indebted
Author: Charmayne Hafen
Publisher: Capture
ISBN: n/a

Why Read?: Early Review
  
Thoughts: I have no problem with religious fantasy, but the Bible as we know it seemed very out of place in a world plagued by dragons.

Rating: 2/5

The In-Betweener

Title: The In-Betweener
Author: Ann Christy
Publisher: self
ISBN: n/a

Why Read?: For Fun
  
Thoughts: This whole story - not just the flashbacks - felt like a long exposition.

Rating: 3/5

Monday, May 27, 2019

Panic

Title: Panic
Author: Harold Schecter
Publisher: Amazon
ISBN: n/a
Why Read?: For Fun
  
Thoughts: So far, the best of the Bloodlands series, focusing on multiple similar gruesome crimes, that happened over the course of a few months in 1939.

Rating: 5/5

Married at Midnight

Title: Married at Midnight
Author: Gerri Russell
Publisher: Montlake
ISBN: n/a
Why Read?: First Reads
  
Thoughts: Just plain fun rom-com.

Rating: 4/5

The Brick Slayer

Title: The Brick Slayer
Author: Harold Schecter
Publisher: Amazon
ISBN: n/a
Why Read?: For Fun
  
Thoughts: An interesting case I have never heard of, but I am not quite sure if the Afterword was conjecture or fact.

Rating: 3/5

Occasional Magic

Title: The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible
Author: Catherine Burns, ed.
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 9781101904428
Why Read?: For Fun
  
Thoughts: Highly compelling, uplifting, and heart-tugging anthology of personal essays.

Rating: 5/5