Play Nice by Rachel Harrison
I don’t know. I had to sit with this one for a bit. Maybe because I think that if Harrison had taken more time, this book would have hit a sweet spot. I think though that how things resolved in the end was what had me not loving this book. I keep waiting for that gut punch moment like I got when I read Harrison’s Black Sheep or The Return. Though this book does a lot of what I call great reveals about the underbelly […]
Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff
I have to say, this was a very good romance, but I am never going to be happy if I have to scan something with my phone to go and read the rest of a book I bought. I was so irritated. It didn’t help that my phone since being forcibly upgraded has made it aggravating to use. There was also a song I could listen to and that was a hard nope from me. Everything before this though really worked for me. I thought […]
One Burning Heart by Elizabeth Kingston
Whelp! I have my first buddy read of the year done! I do love my buddy read group, it’s where I find myself reading authors I never would have before. I have not heard of Elizabeth Kingston before, but there’s enough here that makes me want to seek out her earlier books because I liked how some of the characters we see in this one were depicted. No spoilers, but Will’s mother Eluned was hands down my favorite character. Honestly, because of her, she made […]
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
I had started and stopped this one a few times. Not because I did not enjoy it, but honestly because it was a lot to read in one sitting. The word haunting comes to mind as I think about this one along with sorrow and pain. I felt for all of the characters we are introduced to in this one and for the main character we get to know who loves animals and feels nothing but pain at what the locals who live among her […]
107 Days by Kamala Harris
Oh God, what is going to happen to our country. ….yeah. I think that I just feel tired. I feel weird giving this 5 stars frankly because it depressed the crap out of me. And it’s because I saw this coming from July 2024. As soon as the Democrats (Senate, House, etc.) and then the mega donors and others came out against Biden. I knew we were going to end up here. I frankly just got exhausted reading behind the curtains so to speak. I […]
The Sublet by Greer Hendricks
So one thing about when I am sick. I tend to sit in bed, read, and then nap, wake up, read, nap, and then so on and so on. Today I took some time to start cleaning up my e-reader for 2026 and then saw that I apparently read this short story two weeks ago. I have zero memory of it. I re-read it today in between other books (this is only over 50 pages) and honestly, I think I just forgot about it because […]
