Month: February 2019

Book Review - My Daughter’s Secret by Nicole Trope #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

I loved the blurb, I loved the beginning of the story. The book started with a shocker - a suicide. Julia was found hanging from the porch, and her mother Claire was devastated. What caused a happy 20 year old, studying journalism, to take such a drastic step? The author Nicole Trope started the story … Continue reading Book Review - My Daughter’s Secret by Nicole Trope #BookBlogger #AmReading

Editor's picks

Book Review - The Housewife by Valerie Keogh @Bookouture #BookReview #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

Happy Publication Day!! This was one of the fastest reads in recent times. The book started with Diane living her routine life as a housewife caring for her husband, child and maintaining her home. On the surface, it all seemed ideal, but Diane was different, there was a gap in her memory. She couldn't remember … Continue reading Book Review - The Housewife by Valerie Keogh @Bookouture #BookReview #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - Restaurant weeks are murder by Libby Klein @KensingtonBooks #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

Happy Publication Day!! Move over all the cookery shows - Restaurant Weeks are here and Poppy is the chef, a pastry chef and this is her moment to shine!! Years ago, she had left the culinary school and now she was called by teenage love Tim to participate in the week long show. And as … Continue reading Book Review - Restaurant weeks are murder by Libby Klein @KensingtonBooks #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - Need to Know by Karen Cleveland #BookReview #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

I am going to say this, I have to say this, I am forced to say this screaming out loud The book was nothing but adrenaline filled pages of action!! I read the book from midnight to 3 am with fear and panic coursing through my veins, my heart in my mouth. Absolutely petrified for … Continue reading Book Review - Need to Know by Karen Cleveland #BookReview #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - Backpacking With Dinosaurs by Doug Goodman @DougGoodman1 #BookReview #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

Dinosaur or Man - the apex predator - you would think it's the Dino, it is always the MAN!! With dinosaurs in the title, I had to read this book. 4 friends Caleb, Ethan, Julie, and Sadie hiked through the mountains till they reached the electrified fence protecting the predators - the once extinct creatures … Continue reading Book Review - Backpacking With Dinosaurs by Doug Goodman @DougGoodman1 #BookReview #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - Pie Hard by Kirsten Weiss #BookReview #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

This was a fun humorous book, third in the Pie Town Mystery series. The story goes thus, landlady Charlene signs Val and herself up for a reality based show Pie Hard, and the producer soon falls to her death followed by an episode of arson and another death on the golf course. And Val and … Continue reading Book Review - Pie Hard by Kirsten Weiss #BookReview #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - Justice Gone by N. Lombardi Jr. #BookReview #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

Happy Publication Day!! I dedicate this review to Yesha. If she had not posted her spotlight post for this book, I would have forgotten about this one. Thank you Yesha!! Check out her blog, her reviews are detailed and fabulous. The captivating highly engrossing plot, the flamboyance and flair of the defense lawyers, and the … Continue reading Book Review - Justice Gone by N. Lombardi Jr. #BookReview #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - Where Angels Fear by D. K. Hood @Bookouture #BlogTour #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

Woohoo!! My first blog tour with Bookouture and I am super excited. Many thanks to Noelle and Bookouture for this fabulous invitation to this exciting edition of Kane and Alton series - Where Angels Fear by author D. K. Hood What can I say about author D. K. Hood that everyone in the reading world … Continue reading Book Review - Where Angels Fear by D. K. Hood @Bookouture #BlogTour #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - The Stone’s Heart by Jessica Thorne @Bookouture #BookBlogger #BookReview #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

This was one of the most rocking sci-fi thrillers I have read in recent times. Jessica Thorne has done it again. In the first book she had pitched Bel's world against the invaders. In this round, Bel had to face an enemy from the bowels of the earth - the Stoneheart. And there was nobody … Continue reading Book Review - The Stone’s Heart by Jessica Thorne @Bookouture #BookBlogger #BookReview #AmReading

Book Review - Dead of Winter by Annelise Ryan #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

This review is based about my mindset as a reviewer. If the author has a scene with the main character crapping in her pants in the car and staining the leather seat, with her boss in the passenger seat going - what's that smell - a scene which is not valid to the story line … Continue reading Book Review - Dead of Winter by Annelise Ryan #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - A Version of the Truth by BP Walter #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

A hard hitting book with a gritty look at the sexual perversions in a fictional version written to understate the truth and bring the realities to the forefront. 2 timelines with Holly as the narrator in 1990 and Julianne in 2019, the book started with Julianne's son finding files in the family dropbox which shattered … Continue reading Book Review - A Version of the Truth by BP Walter #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - The House of Secrets by Terry Lynn Thomas #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

This was one heck of a different book, way different from what I normally read. Set in the 1940s, the story had an older Gothic era feel to it. Sarah Bennett could see ghosts after a fall and she was in love with Zeke. Offered a job by Dr. Geisler, she soon got embroiled in … Continue reading Book Review - The House of Secrets by Terry Lynn Thomas #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - If Only I could tell you by Hannah Beckerman #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

It is with a heart laden with sadness and eyes soaked in tears, I write this difficult review. If you ever want to read a book which makes you cry - read this If you ever want to feel deep melancholy - read this If you ever want to feel a mother's love - read … Continue reading Book Review - If Only I could tell you by Hannah Beckerman #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - Finding Grace by K L Slater @bookouture #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

❤️ Happy Valentine's Day!! ❤️ A missing child trope written by K. L. Slater, you betcha I was going to be right there at the forefront reading this. This became one of my midnight reads as the intrigue and the secrets of the past demanded my complete attention. Walking from home could be a peril, … Continue reading Book Review - Finding Grace by K L Slater @bookouture #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - Murders and Metaphors by Amanda Flower #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

A magical bookshop with a birch tree growing right in the middle and which had to be watered by magical spring waters was a wondrous sight to imagine. Add to that, the shop knew what the readers wanted and books flew off the shelves to pick the reader. The essence of the shop knew which … Continue reading Book Review - Murders and Metaphors by Amanda Flower #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - The Couple by Sarah Mitchell #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

Oh my! What a weirdly twisted book... The alleys were dark and felt psychotic. The mind was a fragile thing, once broken remained broken. What the heart wanted, it wanted by any means... Or death would be the end!! Beware of the twisted plot this book coursed through. Claire and Angus were engaged, they bought … Continue reading Book Review - The Couple by Sarah Mitchell #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - The Family Secret by Tracy Buchanan #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

I have always had a bittersweet relationship with Tracy Buchanan's books. I have liked her books, but the relationship never reached love. But this broke the bindings of the old myth of a relationship. I LOVED THE BOOK!! Well, most of it... Read on... 2 stories, 2 POV, 20 years apart, one was Gwyneth in … Continue reading Book Review - The Family Secret by Tracy Buchanan #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - Tainted by David Evans #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

This was a solid police procedural which linked and solved two mysteries together, one which had happened nearly 2 decades ago. My first book by David Evans, the writing had a strange rhythmic quality which brought to life the way the cops worked. Forensics and DNA played a major role, and it helped in solving … Continue reading Book Review - Tainted by David Evans #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - Wake Up by Brooke de Lira #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

Forgotten memories, death of a sibling, travel between wakefulness and sleep, search for the truth form the premise of this thriller Lucid dreaming is a topic I have always been fascinated about, and this book weaves this in an enthralling story about a sister who has forgotten the death of her brother... The memories are … Continue reading Book Review - Wake Up by Brooke de Lira #BookBlogger #AmReading

Cover Reveal - Flower Power Trip by James J Cudney IV #BookBlogger #CoverReveal @jamescudney4 #CreativiaPub

by Shalini, posted in Cover Reveal, Digital Reads Blog Tours

Digital Reads Blog Tours happily, lovingly, presents cover of book 3 by James J Cudney IV Presenting Flower Power Trip Totally fangirling....the book...nopes...the author!! Well, everyone knows how much I love him...no, the book...no, him... OK both!! Here I go... At a masquerade ball to raise money for renovations tMemorial Library, Kellan finds a dead … Continue reading Cover Reveal - Flower Power Trip by James J Cudney IV #BookBlogger #CoverReveal @jamescudney4 #CreativiaPub

Book Review - The Wedding Guest by Jonathan Kellerman #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

This book gave me a serious case of nostalgia... I started reading Jonathan Kellerman from the very beginning, and this is his 34th book. So I have been reading his stories with Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis all through my life. The Characters Alex Delaware was a child psychologist, and Milo Sturgis a gay detective … Continue reading Book Review - The Wedding Guest by Jonathan Kellerman #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - What Happens in France by Carol Wyer #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

This was a cute read. The story goes thus, 30 years ago Hannah ran away from home at age 16, and Bryony and her family have been searching for her in all these years. Her father's stroke and ill-health makes it all the more imperative to find her. So Bryony decides to take part in … Continue reading Book Review - What Happens in France by Carol Wyer #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - Someone You Know by Olivia Issac Henry #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

The story ARC would appear familiar ——> Twins, Edie and Tess, one popular, other not so much, both angry, mother dies, then one of the twin disappears, 20 years later, skeleton found at the bottom of the reservoir ——> Who killed Edie? Olivia Issac Henry's debut had some gripping scenes, unreliable always-drunk main character Tess, … Continue reading Book Review - Someone You Know by Olivia Issac Henry #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

Bone-crushing, heart-stopping, breath-takingly brilliant Oh, what can I say about The Gilded Wolves that the world already does not know! The magic used is Forging - chota saans - a small breath - breathing life into a thing so that it becomes a vibrant, mobile, magical being for some time. The story goes thus: 4 … Continue reading Book Review - The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi #BookBlogger #AmReading

Cover Reveal - Bloggers needed for 8th February 2019

by Shalini, posted in Cover Reveal, Digital Reads Blog Tours

The cover reveal is slightly preponed to 8th February... Sorry... Do let me know how many would love to join in... Come one, come all A cover reveal to have a ball A secret author, a book new Someone you perhaps already knew I wonder if it would stun Still guess the author and join … Continue reading Cover Reveal - Bloggers needed for 8th February 2019

Book Review - Sacrificial Souls by Dusty Crabtree #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

Iris is back, more powerful and more confident about her powers. Her gang of boyfriend Patrick, friends Lexi, Kyra, Angela, and teacher/angel Gregory all help to fight these dark shadows off people, in different ways. The book by Dusty Crabtree is based on good VS evil. Where Gregory is the angel, Donovan plays the evil … Continue reading Book Review - Sacrificial Souls by Dusty Crabtree #BookBlogger #AmReading

Book Review - An Eternity in a Moment by K. Carothers #BookBlogger #AmReading

by Shalini, posted in Book Reviews, Fiction

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment —Thoreau With lines as significant as these, I knew there was only one word to describe this book - BEAUTIFUL!! The book had it all. Erin an ER physician in Boston returned home to New Dublin to be … Continue reading Book Review - An Eternity in a Moment by K. Carothers #BookBlogger #AmReading

Cover Reveal - Tatum and Kalli by Author Sian Claven #digitalreadsblogtours #CoverReveal

by Shalini, posted in Cover Reveal, Digital Reads Blog Tours

Digital Reads Blog Tours presents Cover Reveal for books Tatum and Kalli by author Sian Claven Book 1 of The Butcher Book Series. Everyone has nightmares but the silent girl from Tatum’s is crossing over to reality and when she does, someone dies. In a quiet little neighbourhood, murders are about to rock the community’s … Continue reading Cover Reveal - Tatum and Kalli by Author Sian Claven #digitalreadsblogtours #CoverReveal