2 haunting murder mysteries and 2026 reading predictions! Happy New Year!
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#DNF Wrap up #8: Books I Didn’t Finish: Its Been Done Before Edition!
Libraries are full of books, life is short, and my tbr is too damn long to play around. I’ll write about the book in this series if I think it has some redeeming qualities..
#BookReview: Starch fueled book reviews! Christian romance and a murder mystery!
This will be more like a brain dump – odds and ends that have been languishing in my notes app unfinished. It’ll be a toss up if I rant or rave – be forewarned!
#BookReview: The Secret of Secrets| Another Prof Langdon, great adventure!
Langdon’s still the same.. bumbling around, inept enough to find himself next to the dead, expert enough to decode complex clues..
#BookReview: What Kind of Paradise|A thriller that reads like a memoir
If you could go back and change how we initially connected with the internet – would you?
#BookReview: Legendborn, a secret society, fantasy tale with Merlins and ancestral root magic!
…a young black girl of 16 in an Arthur and the Round Table story.
#Bookish: When a true #revolutionary ascends – this is what we do.
Rest in power Assata Shakur. My mind is free because, you ran, then wrote a memoir to tell the rest of us how.
#BookReview: Too Old For This|A serial killer comes out of retirement!
Lottie thinks she’s in decline, but, maybe she needs her hammer?
#BookReviews: White Line Fever & Bringing In The Creeps: New Horror Releases
New horror reads for fall!
#BookTag: Whats in your Inbox?|A dozen things you never wanted to know?!
Bookish Tag of questions from my blogs Inbox!
#BookReview: Coded Justice, Avery Keene series, Book #3|Rogue AI in a Veterans Hospital?!
“Keene is a modern day Nancy Drew – with her boyfriend and a few friends, she’s willing to relentlessly search for the wrongdoer..”
#BookReview: King of Ashes| Gritty, southern, drama
Cosby’s grittiest tale yet, ‘shoot outs, torture scenes, someone burned alive, back stabbing and manipulation..the violence jumps off the page!
#BookReview: The Road of Bones, The Ashen, Book One
New adult viking fantasy, an enemies to lovers romance!
#BookReview: A romance, a thriller, and a musician?! All 3.5 star reads!
3 good 3.5 star books!
#BookReview: A Grim Reapers Guide To Catching A Killer (SCYTHE #1)
Unlikable to maybe a cool hero – paranormal mystery!
#BookReviews: Relationship status: Its Complicated!|Broken Country & End of The World Running Club
2 story’s about relationships with a complicated twist!
#BookReview: North Is The Night| Romantacy, based in Fin Mythology
less sex, Less toxic, no fae – real Fin Gods!
#BookReview: Beautiful & Beautifully Made|A superhero origin story?
a mystery series with a dash of supernatural
#BookReview: Finished, but not in love – 3, three star reads!
A Villa, a haunted mansion and death in the Highlands – all 3 stars!
#BookReview: The Perfect Divorce, Perfect, Book 2
5 star follow up to The Perfect Marriage!
#BookReview: Suffer The Children| Vampiric children
One day, all the children in the world die, and three days later, they rise…for blood.
#BookReview: Say You’ll Remember Me|Romance & Dementia
Abby Jimenez, latest release – thumbs down?!
#BookReview: Iron Widow & Heavenly Tyrannt| Xiran Jay Zhao
Lets talk about Iron Widow & Heavenly Tyrannt!
#DNF Wrap Up#4: Horror (kinda) Fails|Books I Did Not Finish!
Quick blog bit: 2025 has been a reading rollercoaster! January was meh-af and February quickly snowballed me! By mid-month I … More
#BookTag|Best Books of 2024!|#BookReviews
My final list isn’t all 5 star reads but, definitely all books that’ve made an impact. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend any of these for a good time!
#BookReview: Book Wrap up |Unhinged Female Lit !
I love this, niche genre of women behaving badly. I don’t agree with their murderous solutions, i can relate to their motivations, and I enjoy reading about them, wishing it was me!
#BookReview: Cozy, murder mystery with diverse characters | Glory Be (Glory Broussard Mystery, #1)
“an activist nun, has been found dead. They are calling it suicide but Glory knows better. There is a drug dealing ex-boyfriend, an activist pastor, and a strip club that complicate things”
#BookReview: Psychological horror with a sci-fi twist: Confessions of The Dead
centered on a small town in New Hampshire, quickly moving to shit, mysteriously, after the appearance of a naked young girl in the towns diner.
#BookReview: I Was a Teenage Slasher|Slasher/Horror novel
Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic.
#BookTag: 20 Questions
😲Issa another book tag?! 20 questions, what I enjoy and why I enjoy it!
My Lovely Wife #BookReview
Seemingly perfectly normal people meet, fall in love, get married and have kids. One of the things they both enjoy, is murdering woman they don’t otherwise know.
The House That Horror Built #BookReview
A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifying secrets in the captivating new novel
Jar of Hearts #BookReview
Jennifer Hillier | pub 2018 | 311pp Jennifer Hillier is hot or cold for me..maybe I’m like that with thrillers … More
Sister, Maiden, Monster #BookReview
To survive they must evolve. A virus tears across the globe, transforming its victims in nightmarish ways. As the world collapses, dark forces pull a small group of women together.
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy #1)
Sloane and Rowan, find something elusive—the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers.
The Women #BookReview
The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on the story of all women who put themselves in harm’s way to help others.
The Only One Left #BookReview
Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.
Double Take (Lake City Heroes, #1)
Together, Lainie and James must work together to find out who, exactly, is after her and why he wants her dead. And failure is not an option.
Swarm #BookReview
“the creatures begin to fulfill their ultimate purpose: multiplying via parasitic load, and before long, the butterflies aren’t the only thing trying to get in. To protect her family and survive the invasions, Shur must find the strength to protect their sanctuary at any cost.”
Mary #BookReview
“visions of terrifying, mutilated specters overwhelm her with increasing regularity and she begins auto-writing strange thoughts and phrases. Mary discovers that these experiences are echoes of an infamous serial killer.”
The Girl Who Could Breathe Underwater #BookReview
When Kendra Brennan moves into her grandfather’s old cabin on Hidden Lake, she has a problem and a plan. The problem? An inflammatory letter from A Very Disappointed Reader that’s keeping her from writing her next novel as long as its claims go unanswered.
The Last Word by Taylor Adams #BookReview
Taylor Adams | pub: April 2023 | 340 pp Welcome to someone fictionalizing the habit of responding to negative reviews! … More
The Perfect Marriage #BookReview
Adam is arrested for Kelly’s murder. She had been found stabbed to death in Adam and Sarah’s second home.
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery. #BookReview
Slewfoot, a powerful spirit of antiquity newly woken … and trying to find his own role in the world. Healer or destroyer? Protector or predator? But as the shadows walk and villagers start dying, a new rumor is whispered: Witch.
The Stranger Upstairs #BookReview
“.. Sarah knows there’s only so long she can continue to sleep in the bedroom with the bloodstained floor and suffer the mysterious footsteps she hears from the attic.”
The Vegetarian #BookReview
In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye’s decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebellion manifests in ever more extreme and frightening forms, scandal, abuse, and estrangement begin to send Yeong-hye spiraling deep into the spaces of her fantasy.
Dracul #BookReview
Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here..
My Husband #BookReview
her behavior is so unhealthy, you know it’s going to lead to something – is she going to kill him? Does he know his wife is crazy? Will the children get hurt while she is obsessing over her husband? Get to it all ready!
Beauty #BookReview
he gets her under his knife and her career takes off. Later though, her face starts to breakdown…and it’s real bad.
The Test #BookReview
this book tells the story of the value and impact of what gaining citizenship can mean to an immigrant family, how much natives take those privileges for granted.