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April Recap

4 Books

1,120 pages

Average Rating 3.5

Jamie Quinn Mystery Collection 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Murder at Rudhall Manor 🌟🌟

A Smidge of Crazy 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Every Knee Shall Bow 🌟🌟🌟

I finally broke my 3 book stalemate and gave a 5 star rating! I am feeling good about April. I read more, wrote more, and posted more. It’s certainly not my best and not what I had been planning on. I was suppose to be on vacation, reading and relaxing on a tropical island. Thanks Rona! 😡 But just rolling with what happens and thankfully I was able to just reschedule for September. This month I tried to focus on the positives.

I am thankful for my health.
I am thankful that my friends and family are healthy.
I am thankful I work at home for an awesome company.
I am thankful to Barbara Venkataraman and Anya Wylde for gifting me copies of their books. 😊

Bring on May and Springtime! 🌷🌹🌻

Currently Reading

Thank you Barbara Venkataraman for gifting me your collection of Cozy Mysteries! I do greatly enjoy a good Cozy and with the little reading slump I have been in this is just what I needed! I am about half way through and certainly enjoying it.

Set of 3 Mysteries:

Death by Didgeridoo – Family Law Attorney Jamie Quinn must find a way to help her autistic cousin who is accused of murdering his music teacher with… you guessed it, a Didgeridoo! She inlists the help of a Private Investigator that owes her a favor, ladies man Duke Broussard.

The Case of the Killer Divorce – Jamie is once again wrapped up in a criminal case when her client is suspected of murdering her soon to be ex-husband. She gonna need some help digging out the truth and she knows just the PI for the job.

Peril in the Park – Jamie’s boyfriend is director of the park’s department and someone is causing major problems. A body is dicovered in the Park and Kip is missing. Jamie knows there is only one person who can help her, her favorite PI, Duke.

March Recap

3 Books

1,122 pages

Average Rating 3.7

Fabier Investigations 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Too Late to Say Goodbye 🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Curse of Sara Douroux 🌟🌟🌟

Some how March is over already. I hope you all had a better reading month than I did. I was only able to finish 3, and no 5 🌟 for the 2nd month in a row.

As most of us have been ordered to Stay Home and Stay Safe, I was hoping to be able to use that as an opportunity to get some much needed reading done. But that is not what I was able to do, clearly. I already work from home so that hasn’t changed. I was more worried about how my family was doing with everything going on. So I spent a lot more time on the phone talking and facetimeing with them instead.

The puppy is still requiring a lot of time and attention as expected and we also rescued two juvenile redfoot tortoises (we already had 3, so up to 5 now 😳). I am hoping that soon our lives will return to normal a bit, for my sanity’s sake.

I am very thankful to James R. Hemmings and C.A.Wittman forproviding me with copies of their books to read and review.

Book Review – The Event

The Event by Tori Shannon

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Adult Romance, Erotica

“Last year I held an exhibition of my work at this gallery. The show was entitled Love on the Rocks and it featured a number of works depicting couples at the end stages of their relationships (that should give you a pretty good sense of where my head was at that time). “
“That night was the night I gave in to the devil, the night when my carnal desires overcame me and I threw myself at the guy I’d been fantasizing over for months. Never before had something so wrong felt so right, but that one act led to the end of everything.”

After 20 years, Libby and Terry Gardener’s marriage has hit its breaking point, climaxing with “The Event”. The moment that Libby made the conscious decision to step out on her marriage. A year after The Event, Libby reflects back on how they got to that point.

“I accept the fact that while my husband crafted the coffin, I hammered the nails into it.”

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Is it Cheating?….

Alright, so I am about half way through The Event by Tori Shannon and its going good; sexy, funny, thought provocating. Which brings me to a question I must ask:

Is it Cheating if it’s not sex?

There have been a couple references to a “near miss” in fidelity for both of the main characters. I gotta say when I read it I was like “um…..”

But maybe that’s just me. I ask myself would I be okay with my husband doing that? Yeah, big NO.

How far is too far for you?

Flirting?
Giving someone your number?
Kissing?
Sexting?
Groping?
3rd base?

January Reading Recap

5 books

1,717 pages

Average rating 3.8

Murder at Harbor Village 🌟🌟🌟🌟

American Predator 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Bound Through the Ashes 🌟🌟🌟

A Painted House 🌟🌟🌟

1st to Die 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Off to a good start to the year! Had some really great picks and some that were just okay. I was most excited to read American Predator and I was not disappointed! 1st to Die has been on my TBR list for so long and I am so happy that I finally got around to reading it. This series has instantly become one of my favorites.

I am very thankful for Lyrical Underground, Viking Books, and Danelle Nelson for proving me with some of these good reads!

Check them out!

What was your favorite read from January?

Book Review – 1st to Die

1st to Die by James Patterson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Crime Thriller Mystery

“What is the worst thing anyone has ever done? Phillip Campbell asked himself again, heart pounding in his chest. Was it this? Had he just done it? Not yet, a voice inside answered. Not quite yet.”

Homicide inspector Lindsey Boxer is called to the Mandarine Suite of the Grand Hyatt where a prominent couple that had just gotten married the night before are found brutally murdered.

“She was so young and beautiful: calm, tranquil, and undisturbed except for three crimson flowers of blood spread on her white chest. She looked as if she were a sleeping princess awaiting her prince, but her prince was in the other room, his guts spilled all over the floor.”

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Book 5 – California

“In San Francisco, newlyweds are being stalked – and slaughtered. Enter four unforgettable women, all friends…Lindsey, a homicide inspector in the city’s police department…Claire, a medical examiner… Jill, an assistant D.A. …and Cindy, a reporter who has just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. Joining forces, pooling their talents, courage, and brains, they have one goal: to find, trap, and outwit the most diabolical and terrifying killer ever imagined.”

Book 4 – Arkansas

Summer 1952, in the Arkansas Delta a 7 year old boy, Luke Chandler, faces a summer of secrets no young boy should be exposed to. Two groups of migrant workers arrive to pick the cotton fields for the Chandlers, two very dangerous men among them. A brutal murder, a fatherless baby is born, and other secrets Luke slowly unfolds that will change his and his family’s lives forever.

Book Review – Bound Through the Ashes

Bound Through the Ashes by Danelle Nelson

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Time travel, Western, Romance

Lorena Durrell is a 28 year old single woman living in Alaska, working at a job she hates. She has enough one day, quits her job and heads to Arizona for a vacation to visit her grandparents and the home she left 15 years ago. Lorena goes to visit the Montezuma Well alone, looking forward to having a nice hike and taking some great pictures that she can bring back and show her grandparents. She makes her way over to the historic cliff dwellings and as she wanders in to have a closer look, she meets an old Indian woman.
“This is not your time, you are needed elsewhere. Young child, I have seen you in my dreams. I have seen you in a time far away. The Mountain Spirits have come to me, they have showed me your life. The life you have yet to live.”

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