Title: Poor ThingsAuthor: Alasdair GrayGenre: Literary Fiction, Literary SatirePages: 337Date Published: 2023Link to Buy: Amazon Have you ever picked up a book expecting one thing and then—bam!—it hits you with something completely different? That was my experience with Poor Things by Alasdair Gray. I went in thinking it’d be a straightforward Victorian pastiche, maybe a…
Title: The Syndicater – A Dangerous Dark RomanceAuthor: RuNyxGenre: Romance, Alpha Male Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Dark RomancePages: 400Date Published: 2024Series: Dark VerseLink to Buy: Amazon The part one of the Syndicater was done so beautifully that it deserves five bright shining stars, and the first four chapters of part two were also amazing, and…
Synopsis: The Housemaid’s Secret begins with a warning. “Don’t go in the guest bedroom.” A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick’s face as he touches the door with his fingertips. “My wife… she’s very ill.” As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors. But…
Synopsis Forever Never is the story of Brick Callan whose mile-wide chest contains a devoted heart with a few cracks in it. He’s the faithful, overly protective sort. Especially with the one lady he’ll never have. It’s a long, difficult past filled with disputes, friendship, family, and an attraction that tests his iron will. When…
I thoroughly enjoyed reading ‘In a Badger Way’ and following the characters through all of the drama. It was a crazy, exuberant amount of stimulation. However, it’s not as powerful as a romance. The romance progresses like a game of hopscotch where you have to jump from square 1 to 4 and then to 12…
Hot and Badgered is the first book in the “Honey Badger Chronicles” series, which has been a huge hit in the romance community, and I’m now getting around to reading them. I never know what to anticipate from this author, and to be honest, her writing does require a certain kind of mood, as it’s…
“Killers of the Flower Moon” by David Grann is a gripping narrative that unravels the dark and disturbing history of the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe in Oklahoma. The book, published in 2017, delves into the systematic murders of wealthy Osage Indians during the 1920s and the subsequent investigation led by the fledgling FBI….
Summary The ‘Infectious Injustice’ starts when the author, following an inebriated tantrum, becomes entangled with law enforcement and finds himself incarcerated in California’s San Quentin State Prison. The attorney he hired seemed more concerned with extorting money from him than with assisting him in evading prison authorities, as he quickly came to discover. He comes…
Summary In Bay of Sighs, Annika, a mermaid, must return to the sea after completing her mission to locate the stars. As her five new friends learned when they collected the fire star, she is a newcomer to this planet and her purity and beauty, along with her exquisite athleticism, are nothing short of amazing….
Summary The Lost Apothecary begins with a forgotten history. Nestled deep within the maw of eighteenth-century London is a clandestine apothecary that serves a peculiar kind of customer. Stories of a shadowy Nella circulate among the city’s women, who purchase carefully crafted poisons from her to use against the domineering men in their life. However,…