Sunny Days and Sea Breezes by Carole Matthews

I need to preface my review that I really enjoyed Happiness for Beginners by Carole Matthews and that has significantly influenced my current review. If I had read it as a standalone, I would have rated it higher (maybe). I went in with very high expectations into the story, and in the very first scene, I…

Emberhawk by Jamie Foley

I requested a copy of this a while back and finally got around to reading it. This is a simple storyline in the fantasy genre with some standard tropes and some not-so-standard ones. That said, it felt like it was for a younger audience than I initially expected, and with that and my recent experiences…

Everything You Are Kerry Anne King

Narrated by: Will Damron I picked this up solely on the basis of the cover appeal and that I was looking for a new type of book to read. This story has hints of magical realism woven through the lives of three unsuspecting music lovers. The innocuous beginning just indicates a 'special' musical instruments shop. How…

Miss Cecily’s Recipes for Exceptional Ladies by Vicky Zimmerman

A book like this is for people who have been reading and liking the pairing of very different women: an eighty plus-year-old and a woman in her middle-age (or what counts for it). In this tale, our almost forty-year-old is Kate. She is in a stable relationship with an upward trajectory (or so she assumes).…

The Binder of Lost Stories by Cristina Caboni

I have once again topped up numerous reviews to put out together because I cannot seem to maintain a good enough regime despite waking early and sleeping at my normal times! I did start a knitting project (my very first!) and I hope at least I will see that through. Translator: Patricia Hampton Narrators: Karissa…

The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin

Some time ago, I started a page with the recommendations Kate @ Cross Examining Crime and requested a lot of books from my library (8 is the limit, but I am ignoring that for the glory of an exaggeration). This was the first that I managed to get my hands on. Quite understandably, it has been…

Solving Sophronia by Jennifer Moore

This is a very promising start to a five-book series. I picked it up in between my other reads because I wanted something quick and relatively sweet and straightforward. I got what I was looking for. We meet Sophie, who has ideas beyond what her society allows. She is artistic and uses that art to…

Very Nearly Normal by Hannah Sunderland

Book is still available to request as of the writing of this post. We meet Effie, who is down on her life. She is exceedingly morose and has but one person she does not quarrel with regularly. This is the story of how she finds herself again. Effie is living with her parents, has but…