Fiction

BOTM Predictions: February 2025

https://youtu.be/sKDonrqDUvc Scythe and Sparrow BUY Doctor Fionn Kane is running from a broken heart, one he hopes to mend in small-town Nebraska, far away from his almost-fiancé and his derailed surgical career. It’s a simpler life: head down, hard work, and absolutely no romantic relationships. He wants none of the circus he left behind in… Continue reading BOTM Predictions: February 2025

BOTM, Fiction, Lists

BOTM Predictions: November 2024

https://youtu.be/SjFelZPJBRA The Lake of Lost Girls by Katherine Greene BUY Using suspenseful podcast clips to weave a twisty tale of a missing student and her sister who is desperate for answers, The Lake of Lost Girls is perfect for fans of I Have Some Questions for You. It’s 1998, and female students are going missing… Continue reading BOTM Predictions: November 2024

BOTM, Fiction, Lists

BOTM Predictions: August 2024

https://youtu.be/QIVztvevYOc?si=yyUND79N8g9Vhul7 The Wedding People by Alison Espach It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the… Continue reading BOTM Predictions: August 2024

BOTM, Fiction, Lists

BOTM Predictions: June 2024

https://youtu.be/7FRm0g807uI Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand BUY It's her last book, so they have to have it, right? The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley BUY The deliciously twisty new locked room murder mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List and The Paris Apartment. The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center BUY The New York Times bestselling… Continue reading BOTM Predictions: June 2024

Fantasy, Fiction, Lists

BOTM Predictions: April 2024

https://youtu.be/4Ya5aEjDX7M Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez BUY A sharp and scintillating summer novel that will make readers laugh out loud and cry happy tears from the New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly. Funny Story by Emily Henry BUY A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common,… Continue reading BOTM Predictions: April 2024

BOTM, Fiction, Lists

BOTM Predictions: March 2024

https://youtu.be/BO3wWKk_318 Murder Road by Simone St. James A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. BUY Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering Cassie and Billie are childhood best… Continue reading BOTM Predictions: March 2024

Cozy Mystery, Fiction

Mystery Monday: Kayla’s Mystery pick this week is LOWCOUNTRY BOMBSHELL

★★★★★ One of my favorite mystery novels that I've read recently is Susan M. Boyer's Lowcountry Bombshell. It is the second novel in her Liz Talbot Mystery series, and this is a series that Becky and I definitely agree is wonderful! Liz Talbot is a private investigator who occasionally sees ghosts--well, at least one ghost.… Continue reading Mystery Monday: Kayla’s Mystery pick this week is LOWCOUNTRY BOMBSHELL

Fiction, Magical Realism

BEASTS OF EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE is too good to be true

★★★★★ Ruth Emmie Lang’s first novel is one that every first time novelist should envy. As an English teacher, I can assure you that Lang’s use of imagery, allusion, parallelism and her overall prose is absolutely intoxicating. I’ll probably be quoting this book for a while! To say that this is a novel about a… Continue reading BEASTS OF EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE is too good to be true

Fiction, Magical Realism

MIDNIGHT AT THE BLACKBIRD CAFE hit Kayla right in the feels

★★★★★ First of all, I don’t often read this genre of “women’s lit,” mostly because it doesn’t include murder, but I’m trying to expand my repertoire. Also, my mother-in-law practically shoved the book at me after she’d finished it, and I’m so glad that she did. I have never before read a book that made… Continue reading MIDNIGHT AT THE BLACKBIRD CAFE hit Kayla right in the feels