Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★★.5 Characters: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★ "Roxie was gone. The sea had swallowed her."
Book Review – Eyes of Isis: Serpent’s Sting by Brian Coggins Jr.
Overall: 🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★.5 Writing Style: ★★ Character Development: ★★.5 Enjoyment: ★★ "Closeness without conflict only exists in the grave, little one."
Book Review – The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell
Overall: 🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★.5 Character Development: ★★ Enjoyment: ★ "But we all behaved badly in that house; not one of us got out of there without a black mark. I’ve come to accept our sins as survival strategies."
Book Review – Booked For Murder by P.J. Nelson
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★.5 Character Development: ★★.5 Enjoyment: ★★★ "And with that, the October scene was complete; autumn leaves and bare fields and the ghost of Rose Brimley riding with us in the car on the way home."
Book Review – Worthy: From Cornfields to Corner Office of Microsoft by Jane Boulware
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★ Personal Growth: ★★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★.5 "Each morning is a do-over, a reset, the chance to make and do right, to laugh more, love more, learn from yesterday, live forward, begin again or just begin."
Book Review – The Battle For Verdana by Brett Salter
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★.5 Writing Style: ★★★★ Character Development: ★★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★★ "He did like trees though. He really appreciated their flammable tendencies"
Book Review – Under Central Park by D.W. Spinola
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★ Character Development: ★★★.5 Enjoyment: ★★★★★ "So, tell me about the white flakes that fall from the sky... do they taste sweet?"
Book Review – Windy City Ruins by Brett Salter
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★.5 Writing Style: ★★★★ Character Development: ★★★.5 Enjoyment: ★★★★.5 "You're bravado is a lot more convincing when you're a forty-foot, fire-breather."
Book Review – News of The World by Paulette Jiles
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★.5 Writing Style: ★★★.5 Character Development: ★★.5 Enjoyment: ★★★ "Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works."
Book Review – Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★★★ Character Development: ★★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★★ "I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full."