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."
Book Review – Riders of Fire and Ice by Brett Salter
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★.5 Writing Style: ★★★★.5 Character Development: ★★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★★ "There was so much paper in this room that Rome would certainly have to be careful with his eye auras. It would only take one stray flicker to turn the whole place into a towering inferno."