Sweetheart (2021)
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April Jane (Nell Barlow), or “A.J.” as she now likes to style herself, is a seventeen-year-old...
Mistletoe, Moussaka, and Murder
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Not even her impending nuptials can keep Lucy Berberian, manager of her family-owned Kebab Kitchen,...
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Sera won a trip for two, but before she could tell her boyfriend, he dumps her for her mom. Oof....
romance holiday romance
Thank You For the Days
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Every day counts when you're chasing love, life, and a little bit of madness… Luke Milvaine is...
Rocky has become obsessed with the death of a young man from Jamie’s school year - as if she hasn’t enough to deal with, with her own increasingly perplexing medical issues (and I thank the NHS that our system is nothing like Rocky’s experiences!).
I love Catherine Newmans’s witty, clever, heartfelt writing. One minute I’m laughing along, the next moment I’m empathising with her and reminiscing about her (my) children when they were small - and feeling as emotional as she does! Ahh, menopausal motherhood!
This book just seemed to finish far too quickly for me - I enjoyed everything about it.
Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for my copy. All opinions are my own!
Forever Wilde in Aster Valley (Forever Wilde #9)
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When Miller Hobbs finds himself on a winter vacation in Colorado with the giant, exceedingly loud,...
Contemporary MM Romance Seasonal
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Kitty Takes a Holiday (Kitty Norville, #3) in Books
Dec 7, 2021
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Kitty Takes a Holiday ( Kitty Norville book 3)
By Carrie Vaughn
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After getting caught turning wolf on national television, Kitty retreats to a mountain cabin to recover and write her memoirs. But this is Kitty, so trouble is never far behind, and instead of Walden Pond, she gets Evil Dead. When werewolf hunter Cormac shows up with an injured Ben O'Farrell, Kitty's lawyer, slung over his shoulder, and a wolf-like creature with glowing red eyes starts sniffing around the cabin, Kitty wonders if any of them will get out of these woods alive...
Another brilliant and interesting instalment from Kitty Norville I love this series. We see Kittt taking a break dealing with with some person issues, taking care of a friend helps her do this. These books are just so easy to read and never disappoint.
Debbiereadsbook (1753 KP) rated A Cold Christmas and the Darkest of Winters in Books
Dec 17, 2021
A collection of 23 different authors come together to bring you short stories set around the winter season or Christmas.
Not a single one of these authors have I read before, and there is a varied bunch of tales here. Some are just sad but some are downright scary!
Loosely, they are "holiday" stories, but more are winter ones, rather than Christmas.
An eclectic bunch of tales that can be read at any time, but I'd recommend NOT at bedtime! You might stop on one of the scary ones, and get some weird dreams as a consequence, like I did!
I didn't read them all, I will be honest, but the ones I read were very good, or excellent. Just on the short side. but 23 stories across 360 odd pages is never going to produce novel length books.
4 stars
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David McK (3801 KP) rated The Rage of Dragons in Books
May 15, 2022
And, I have to say, I was really impressed with it.
Telling the story of Tau Solarin, this probably falls somewhere between high fantasy (yes, there are dragons but no elves or dwarves or such like) and heroic fantasy (none of the characters are really what you would call conventional heroes!), but nor is it what I would call Dark fantasy (you can understand why they are doing what they are doing, with none of the characters really anti-heroes).
I'm looking forward to finding out more about the background, culture, beliefs and (in general) the world in future instalments: just what was The Cull, for instance, and why did the Omehi have to flee from it?
At that, how did the caste system come about? Will it be overthrown ... ?
Candy Canes of Christmas Past
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Christmas past meets Christmas present in this holiday whodunit set in Tinker’s Cove, Maine,...