My thoughts and musings about all things books & cozy living
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Continue reading →: Review: Murder At Raven’s GateMurder at Raven’s Gate by Louise Marley is a gothic atmospheric mystery wrapped in folklore, soldier spirits, and the question of whether the haunting is real or something far more sinister. A beautifully constructed procedural with genuine eerie charm. Here is my full review.
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Continue reading →: Review: Pretty Dead ThingsPretty Dead Things by Liv Lowry is a gothic psychological thriller set in a decaying Everglades estate that pulled me into a hypnotic reading state and did not let me go until long after the last page. Repressed memories, a mother who is both victim and monster, sisters shaped by…
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Continue reading →: Book Review & Giveaway : The Bush Tea MurderBush Tea Murder by Ashley Ruth M Bernier is a cozy Caribbean mystery that does something genuinely creative with structure, weaving a series of layered mini mysteries through a richly cultural Saint Thomas setting before bringing them all together. The cover is as warm and inviting as the book itself.
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Continue reading →: Review: Rumors, Romance, and Rhubarb Crumble by Rosie GreenRumours, Romance and Rhubarb Crumble by Rosie Green is my cozy come home read between all the dark and intense books on my TBR. Warm, sweet, and feel-good with a quiet mystery underneath the surface and a surprisingly real theme about empathy and boundaries running through the whole story. Here…
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Continue reading →: Review: One Of Them Is Lying, CL SwatmanOne of Them Is Lying by CL Swatman is a clever, layered thriller about a stormy weekend, a dead body, and a house full of people with secrets they will do anything to protect. The first half asks for your patience. The second half makes every page worth it. Here…
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Continue reading →: Review: The Housewife by Valerie KeoghThe Housewife by Valerie Keogh is a psychological domestic suspense thriller built around one of the most unsettling questions a book can ask. How do you trust your gut when you are not sure your gut is sane? I went in expecting a good thriller and came out with a…
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Continue reading →: Back Where We Belong, Jo BartlettBack Where We Belong by Jo Bartlett is women’s fiction about two sisters, fifteen years of silence, and whether some bonds are too strong to stay broken. I came to this one as a Jo Bartlett fan trying her women’s fiction for the first time and she absolutely delivered. Warm,…
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Continue reading →: Book Review & Giveaway : Daughter of Mine, Angie StantonDaughter of Mine by Angie Stanton is domestic suspense that lives entirely in the complicated gray space between right and wrong and it completely wrecked me. Two mothers, one child, and sixteen years of buried secrets that detonate in a single devastating moment. I went in with very clear moral…
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Continue reading →: Soul Bargain by Kovessa Nighte ~ ReviewSoul Bargain by Kovessa Nighte is a dark, atmospheric, and completely addicting gothic paranormal read with a protagonist I fell for immediately and a brooding love interest I wanted to fix from the moment he appeared. The writing is immersive, the tension is delicious, and the underworld setting is everything.…
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Continue reading →: Caio by LS Delorme ~ ReviewCaio by LS Delorme has genuinely good bones. The writing is strong, the mystery hooked me, and the paranormal world has real potential. But there are some significant content choices in this book that I need to talk about honestly, and I think you deserve to know about them before…
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