Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★★ Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★ “That’s what’s beautiful and tragic about human beings—for better or for worse, not a single one can be replaced.”
Book Review – Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★.5 Writing Style: ★★★.5 Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★★ "You are not who you are because of where you come from; you are who you are because of where you choose to go."
Book Review – Sacred Struggle by Rochelle Wilcox
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★★ Character Development: ★★.5 Enjoyment: ★★★★ "The world - my world - looks back at me as she lifts her eyes to find me."
Book Review – The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★★ Writing Style: ★★★.5 Character Development: ★★★.5 Enjoyment: ★★★★ "It was the magic of the flannel"
Book Review – The Never King by Nikki St. Crowe
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★.5 Writing Style: ★★★★ Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★ "She needs to know…there are no white knights here. Just monsters. And I am the worst 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 – Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★.5 Writing Style: ★★★★ Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★ "What flames could not consume, Never shall be extinguished."
Book Review – The Awakening by Nora Roberts
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★.5 Writing Style: ★★★★ Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★★ "Girl, take it from an old queen: be who you are and the hell with the rest."
Book Review – If I Run by Terri Blackstock
Overall: 🐢🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★★ Writing Style: ★★★.5 Character Development: ★★★ Enjoyment: ★★★.5 "Our job is to stand up for our beliefs, cling to them no matter what, and wait for our redemption."
Book Review – Halls of Fire by Christian Cura
Overall: 🐢🐢 Storyline: ★★.5 Writing Style: ★★.5 Character Development: ★★ Enjoyment: ★★ "Just remember, your spirit guide is not there to judge you, but to counsel you."