Genres Archives

5-STAR REVIEW: UNSHAKEN by Shelley Shepard Gray

Amish Romance Amy Wilson - 2 June 2025

Publication Date: June 3, 2025 He helps her hide until danger has passed. She hopes her cover lasts long enough. When Stephanie Miller planned her visit to a dollar store in southern Ohio, she...

5-STAR REVIEW: BALD-FACED LIAR by Victoria Helen Stone REVIEWER’S CHOICE! 🏆

Psychological Thriller Amy Wilson - 30 May 2025

Publication Date: June 1, 2025 Living a lie becomes a matter of life and death for a woman hiding from her past in a novel of mounting psychological suspense by the bestselling author...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE CHOSEN QUEEN by Sam Davey

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Amy Wilson - 30 May 2025

Publication Date: June 3, 2025 Igraine, destined mother of King Arthur, takes center stage for a powerful, feminist retelling of Camelot. The stories of Camelot do not begin with the sword in the stone—but...

4-STAR REVIEW: THE GRAVEDIGGER’S ALMANAC by Oliver Pötzsch

Historical Mystery Tierney Linton - 30 May 2025

A Leopold von Herzfeldt Case: Book 1 Publication Date: May 27, 2025 The New York Times bestselling author of The Hangman's Daughter returns with the first volume in a brand-new mystery series which introduces a gravedigger and young...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE NOT SO MERRY ADVENTURES OF MAX CREED by Matt Cost

Mystery Amy Wilson - 30 May 2025

The Modern-Day Chronicles of Max Creed: Book 1 Publication Date: April 8, 2025 Max Creed is a fictional person created to bring justice to those wronged by the ultra-wealthy in a world where the...

5-STAR REVIEW: KING CAL by Peter McDade

Book Reviews Sandy Saucier - 29 May 2025

Publication Date: April 16, 2025 Many novels set in the world of rock music depict stardom, debauchery and deceit. King Cal instead focuses on the creative process, the devotion required to choose an uncertain...

3-STAR REVIEW: SLEEP LIKE STARFISH by Rachelle Atkins

Non-Fiction Sandy Saucier - 29 May 2025

Publication Date: October 8, 2024 Sleep like Starfish chronicles how a couch-surfing, disassociated teenage high school dropout with debilitating chronic illness, a constant loop of intrusive thoughts, and a haunting abandonment wound goes on...

3.5-STAR REVIEW: GIRLS WITH LONG SHADOWS by Tennessee Hill

Mystery Amy Wilson - 29 May 2025

Publication Date: May 6, 2025 With the haunting, romantic voyeurism of The Virgin Suicides and the atmosphere and emotional intensity of Where the Crawdads Sing, an intoxicating Southern Gothic debut novel about identical triplets whose lives are...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE GERMAN NEXT DOOR By Gosia Nealon

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 29 May 2025

Publication Date: May 28, 2025 Poland, 1943. “We owe you our lives.” The elderly woman clasps my hands before climbing the attic ladder to hide with her family. I am filled with anger,...

5-STAR REVIEW: A CURSE FOR THE HOMESICK by Laura Brooke Robson

Contemporary Romance Amy Wilson - 29 May 2025

Publication Date: February 18, 2025 On Stenland, there comes a time known as skeld season: one day, any woman on the island can wake with three black lines on her forehead, the mark...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE BELGIAN GIRLS by Kathryn J. Atwood

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 28 May 2025

Publication Date: May 8, 2025 I have just been condemned to death. I will be shot tomorrow. Long live the King. Long live Belgium. When the Germans overrun Brussels during the First World War,...

4-STAR REVIEW: THE BUSYBODY BOOK CLUB by Freya Sampson

Cozy Mystery JoAnne - 28 May 2025

Publication Date: May 27, 2025 They can’t even agree on what to read, so how are they going to solve a murder? Having recently moved from London to a small Cornish seaside village, Nova Davies started a book club at the local community center, but so far...