Review: LOVELY RECIPE by Myra Rose Nino

 

Sofia is the only one that cared about her family’s recipes. It will take begging her worst enemy into helping learn them.

 

Nice illustrations! Wow, Sofia was a disaster in the kitchen. Funny disasters. The two naturally bond over cooking. Turns out that Anna Marie wasn’t so bad after all. In fact, Sofia was actually starting to like her. She was so cute when she repeatedly tries to ask Anna Marie to the senior prom. Sometimes good things come to those who wait. A sweet enemies-to-lovers story.

 

Rating: 4 stars

Review: HOTELL Vol. 1 by John Lees

 

A pregnant woman running from an abusive ex stops at the Hotell. Her baby was literally sucking the life out of her. Yikes, that demon baby was scary!

 

Nice illustrations! This book is like “Tales from the Crypt” in which it relays horror vignettes—a collection of dark and scary stories.

 

A husband kills his wife, chops her up, and throws her into a glowing, freaky lake that brings her back. These stories were pretty good. In fact, they were better than I thought. Some of the images can be a little gruesome and sickening. I had to look away with all the blood and gore. Stories seemed to have a fitting ending just like “Tales from the Crypt.” The best stories were the ones without the gushing blood all over the place—basically the one with the hacked-up wife. It was cool how these stories connected to each other. Good read!

 

Rating: 4 stars

Review: GOOSEBUMPS: CREEP FROM THE DEEP by R.L. Stine

 

It’s an adventure at sea! This one takes us into very deep waters. Dr. D and the kids were on the hunt for a pirate ship that went down with a big heap of treasure in the 1780’s. Legend had it that this was ship was haunted by a zombie pirate. A zombie pirate? Soon, the uncle disappears and the kids were stuck on an island with the dead pirates. How will they get out of this one?

 

All of them were captured.

 

A fun and frightening adventure…times two!

 

In the second story, the kids survive the seas and head to Horrorland, where the dead pirates had returned. But hearing that creepy chant seemed to be the least of their worries with all the scary stuff in Horrorland.

 

A good read!

 

Rating: 4 stars

Review: TREASURED HISTORY by Cindy Bell

 

It was opening weekend at Dune House, the new B&B the ladies worked on. It seemed rather hectic with the grumpy guests and bad plumbing. About halfway through, the ladies find the plumber dead. Of course, it gets better when story focuses on the murder and the mystery secret underneath Dune House. A good read!

 

Rating: 4 stars

Review: ROCKS CAN BE DEADLY by Cindy Bell

 

The scrappy seniors were on a train ride to a flower show. The last thing they expected was for a body to stop the train. Apparently, the man had jumped off and the police were treating it as a suicide. But why would a young man that was about to propose to his girlfriend kill himself? Eddy certainly didn’t think it was murder. Could the seniors be riding a train with a killer? As always, there was more than one suspect. Another good mystery!

 

Rating: 4 stars