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Spring Book Bingo!
Hi friends! Long time no randomly post :). Since the last time I rambled at you I had my second vaccine shot! I felt awful for just about 2 1/2 days, but I’d do it again in a heartbeat. Being able to go out and do errands without feeling brain melting anxiety has been wonderful. I don’t think I actually realized how tense I’ve been the last year, until it felt like a whole elephant had been lifted off of my chest. Obviously I am still being very safe, and don’t intend to go into a large group of unmasked…
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Book Review: The Judas Robe by Larry Rodness
During the height of the Spanish Inquisition a ruthless inquisitor by the name of Bishop Roberto Promane tortures a fellow priest, Father Sanchez, for information about the whereabouts of a relic known as The Judas Robe. The robe holds the key to some highly sensitive secrets about Jesus that Pope Sixtus does not want revealed. Promane succeeds in uncovering the robe only to lose it to Sanchez’s rescuers, the knights of The Order Of Christ. Present Day Joel Gardiner, a pre-med student, is attacked one night by thugs after leaving a campus pub. A young woman named Sophia rescues him…
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Book Blitz and Giveaway: The Text God by Whitney Dineen & Melanie Summers
The Text God: Text and You Shall Receive …Melanie Summers & Whitney Dineen(An Accidentally in Love Story #2)Publication date: April 1, 2021Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance Text and you shall receive… Jen Flanders moved to New York to be an artist. This translates into walking dogs for money, practicing yoga for sanity, and hitting up her friends at a local bakery to supplement her diet. Rent is due and she’s running out of cash. After begging the universe for a sign that help is on the way, her phone pings with an incoming text. GOD: You can do it; I…
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Book Blitz and Giveaway: The Anti-Relationship Year by Katie Wismer
The Anti-Relationship YearKatie Wismer(The Pact #2)Publication date: March 30th 2021Genres: Adult, New Adult, Romance Johanna Palmer is very much over relationships. After a scarring experience her freshman year of college, she’s decided she’d much rather have something fun than something serious. Her best friend Miller has seen it all—the tears, the parties, the drunken phone calls at four in the morning when she needed a ride. In fact, there might be several things Miller saw that Jo herself can’t remember. Things Miller can’t forget. With the whirlwind of senior year underway, Jo just wants to move on, get her degree,…
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Book Review: Moon Child by Gaby Triana
The Craft meets The Shining in this slow-burn Florida gothic horror. 18-year-old Valentina Callejas was raised to do what her Catholic grandparents say to do. But Valentina feels a different pull--an affinity with nature, a desire to read tarot cards and study the occult. After ditching her church retreat, Valentina flees home and ends up five hours away at Macy’s house, a half-sister she’s never met until now. When a mysterious wolf leads Valentina to the abandoned Sunlake Springs Resort, she meets the “clairs,” young psychics drawn to the hotel’s haunted history. They’ve been waiting for her, they say, to…
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Book Blitz and Giveaway: Apocolipstick by Lisa Acerbo
Happy Friday friends! We made it through another week, applause all around! You know what’s better than a Friday night? A Friday night with a fabulous new book (obviously)! With a title like Apocolipstick you know you’re in for a wild night. Zombies? World ending? There’s only one way to find out! ApocalipstickLisa Acerbo(Hell in a Handbag, #1)Publication date: March 24th 2021Genres: New Adult, Post-Apocalyptic, Young Adult Life is bad after the apocalypse . . . the undead just made it worse. “My dreams pre-pandemic included a high school graduation party before attending college and marrying an attractive future lawyer.…
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Book Blitz + Giveaway: The Final Dawn by Jess Anastasi
Happy Monday my lovely bibliophiles! What a week it has been in our house. Emergency surgery (don’t worry he’s doing fine), ending our co-quarantine bubble (sad face), and just overall a feeling of overwhelmedness. I know that’s not a word but I don’t care. It’s the best way to describe my feelings at this moment so I’m going with it. Luckily, there are lots of wonderful, fabulous books to get lost in on any given day, including the one I have for you to enjoy now. Romance and sci-fi, what more could you ask for? The Final DawnJess Anastasi(Atrophy #5)Published…
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Time Warp
I swear to you, I blinked and it had already been 8 days since either Tina or I wrote in here. I’m still trying to figure out how time can be so fluid while we’re all awaiting a return to some kind of normalcy. Some weeks seem like ages, and some fly by like its nothing. In an effort to try to bring you content at least twice a week, I’ve been pretty good about checking in regularly! But apparently I lost track of the relentless passage of time, as one of my friends so aptly put it the other…
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Book Review: It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story by Lauren Morrill
A delicious love story with all the toppings, Lauren Morrill’s It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story is a contemporary YA rom-com about love, friendship, and pizza, perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Jenny Han. After her mother gave birth to her in the bathroom of a local pizzeria, Beck has been given the dubious privilege of having minor fame, free pizza for life, and a guaranteed job when she turns sixteen—a job she unfortunately can’t afford to turn down. Now she’s stuck with her geeky co-workers instead of taking Instagram-ready shots with her best friends (and her epic…
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Book Review: The Concrete Vineyard by Cam Lang
Packing an intellectual punch, this smart murder/mystery will have you guessing and gripped! Why would anyone want to murder one of the most respected senior citizens, Niagara-on-the-Lake has ever had? Retired history professor Edward Mitchell was surely not long for the grave, so why would someone risk life in prison to kill him? Picking up the clues is the reluctant Homicide Chief Detective, Bryan Dee. Thinking he might be out of his depth he is happy to enlist the aid of his friend, Kris Gage. But when Dee reads the deceased's last entry in his diary, 'time to take care…
