Writing and Book Reviews
You asked me what love is once. I don’t remember what I said then, but I know now. Love is war. It’s two people wanting things, sometimes the same things and sometimes what they want is so drastically different that it makes you wonder how they got there in the first place. Sometimes it feels… Continue reading MAD MOON
As fiction writers, we know that people, names, places, events aren't necessarily permanent until we decide they are. It's through the work that we figure out whether or not we want to keep or discard certain things, whether someone's wants, pains, joys, deeds, feed the story or if they just gum it up. We see… Continue reading About Currently Writing
Coming Jan. 2021 I received an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley for an honest review. Thanks, NetGalley! I'm new to the Ellery Hathaway series. This is the fourth book. Firstly, why didn't ya'll tell me?! Where has this series been all my life? I'm in love with a good female lead in a… Continue reading Every Waking Hour
I was lucky to get an advanced copy of this book from Kensington Books for my honest review. It releases October 27, 2020. Sharina Harris is a talented writer and one whose personal story I can relate to as a fellow writer and mom and woman pursuing the writer dream. JUDGE'S GIRLS opens with the… Continue reading Judge’s Girls
Writing is easy. Writing well will make you question your life choices. It's similar to, "My God. Why did I eat that entire burrito and the whole bowl of queso?" Writing seems like a good idea. Even a great one as you start. But then you realize your characters are dull, much like that bite… Continue reading The Current
This is my first Moyes book. She's also written bestsellers like Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. This book, The Giver of Stars, is a historical fiction set in the Kentucky Appalachian mountains. Alice Van Cleve is a newly married woman who has followed her husband to his home all the way from… Continue reading The Giver of Stars*
I loved this book. Seriously. I'm giving it four stars, which I don't often do. Kim Michele Richardson has written a book that captures discrimination within a culture that's rarely seen clearly by outsiders. Cussy Mary Carter and her father live in Troublesome Creek, Kentucky, surrounded by the hollers and mountains of the Appalachian Range.… Continue reading The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek*
Charlie Tyler created a story on the backbone of what many trauma survivors know: sometimes what you've believed to be your truth turns out to be a lie. We are dropped into a kitchen, a young girl named Lily returning home. It seems like any other teenager's life; the parent asking where the young girl… Continue reading The Cry of the Lake
COMING FEBRUARY 2021 from THOMAS & MERCER Guys, I love a thriller. Legal thrillers? Yes, even more love for those. This is my first Methos book and when I started it, I didn't realize it was number two in a series. I wish I'd known that before beginning because I enjoy reading a series in… Continue reading Crimson Lake Road
Germany in the 1930s was a dangerous time. Life as most Germans knew it was coming to an end; old allegiances were breaking and new and terrifying ideas were slowly taking hold. The Nazis were gaining power and Jewish lives, the lives of the mentally challenged, those who were not the “perfect” human example were… Continue reading Where Madness Lies
Suzanne Roberts University of Nebraska Press, October 1, 2020 “Once I stopped projecting what I wished I was onto myself and faced and accepted the current version of myself, I learned how to be happy in my own company.” from Mating Season Suzanne Roberts’ collection of travel essays tells the tales of wanderlust that can,… Continue reading Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel