My Review: I had been intending to read another mystery this week, but the one I had wasn’t working for me, and this had been recommended by my reading group, so I started this instead and it immediately grabbed me – and well, there you go and here we are. Where – and when – […]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: This book was a surprise. As much as I loved Day Zero, it was just the kind of apocalypse-right-before-your-eyes end of the world story that doesn’t seem like it could possibly spawn an immediate sequel, because the way the world ended was the kind of ending that the world doesn’t come back from. […]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: The previous book in this series, Blood is Blood, while it takes place in Barker & Llewelyn’s present, is very much concerned with the past. Particularly Barker’s past. This book, while the events of the immediate past – particularly Barker’s injury at the opening of Blood and Llewelyn’s marriage at the end of it […]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: This is the romance we knew was coming at the end of the first book in the Langston Hotels series, Night and Day. And the title for this one is an even bigger clue to the characters and their story than it was in that first book. Both Allie Ford and Caden Castro […]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: I’d apologize for the earworm but sometimes misery just demands company. If I’ve got Tears for Fears singing “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” stuck in my head for days and days, so does everyone - perhaps that should be ‘everybody’ - else. And it fits right in with the pop culture nostalgia [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: I came into this story not quite sure what I was getting into. Probably not helped by reading the “St.” in the title as “Saint” instead of “Street”. I think the “Brotherhood” bit led me astray. But only a bit. The opening of this story was a bit jarring, when the unnamed narrator [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: “There’s nothing more disarming than a Jack Russell terrier,” according to Mary Russell’s long-absent rogue of an uncle, Jake Russell. Jake was so much the epitome of the black sheep of the family that he managed to fade completely into the shadows for fourteen long, and often dark, years. But now he’s arrived [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: Leona Griffin KNOWS she’s in the middle of a setup, she just doesn’t know what the setup is supposed to set her up FOR. The job seemed on the up-and-up, for select definitions of up all the way around. Leona is at the height of her career as a para-archaeologist, as well as [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: The Paris Express is the story of a picture. The fictionalized story of a picture. In fact, the picture at left, of the wreckage of the Montparnasse train station in Paris, taken immediately after the Granville to Paris Express crashed through the flimsy wooden buffer at the end of the tracks and continued [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: Kellieth ReinAraneinth is caught between multiple rocks and abundant hard places, as when the story begins they can barely catch their breath. Literally. They may not be human but their breathing and sense of smell are both compromised by on-the-job chemical exposure resulting in a condition that may not quite BE chronic asthma, [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: As much as I enjoy audiobooks, I don’t listen much to podcasts. Howsomever, last year when I finally realized that a lot of the shorter works nominated for the Hugo Awards were available as podcasts, the penny dropped and I dove in. Last year, I opened my Hugo reviewing with a short work [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: “Death by Chocolate” is a common dessert on restaurant menus - one I’ll never look at it the same way again after reading this book in spite of how much I really do love chocolate. Because this one begins with a literal death by chocolate, as chefs start dropping dead in the middle [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!