Saturday, June 6, 2026

Review: GOLD DIGGER GROVE by Anya Mora

 


A former stripper marries a rich man. Was she a gold digger? Or a woman seeking revenge for her father’s death? To avenge his wrongful death, Lola would have to kill her husband’s father. But then it seemed her little cousin might know something from the DNA results. What was it?

 

A compelling read for sure! How will this all end? What plan will actually go through? A good read!

 

Rating: 4 stars

Review: NOT MY HUSBAND by Boris Bacic

 


A suspicious wife is determined to find her husband’s secret. It all starts with wanting to know what’s inside a locked box. After some combination attempts on the lock, we finally find what’s inside the box in chapter 5. But what did it mean? Part 2 is where we get juicier tidbits and even more questions. Part 3 is where we get the shocking truth revealed. An engaging and quick read!

 

Rating: 4 stars

Review: THE WAITRESS by Emily Shiner

 


A single mom working as a waitress has been having trouble with her problematic teenage son. When the hit-and-run death of a neighbor coincides with the sudden attitude change of her son, the waitress begins to get suspicious. But it was all just a coincidence…right?

 

The premise was, as always, intriguing. The read takes a while to get through with the diary narrative of the waitress. By chapter 14 is when we finally confirm that, yes, it was the son that hit the neighbor. Even when we find that someone knows the truth and is blackmailing them, it’s still pretty slow. Not quite as suspenseful but a decent effort. I may check out some of the other books by this author. An okay read.

 

Rating: 3 stars

Review: THE WRONG GIRL by R.L. Stine

 


Boy, that Poppy is an insatiable and inane chatterbox. She was just talking about everything and nothing all at once. That was my very first impression of her. As you keep reading, it starts getting dramatic with the tension ticked up a notch, which was good, of course. When Poppy loses the starring role in a play to her arch enemy, she decides to play a prank on her. But then the prank blow up in everyone’s faces—literally blows up. By the end of Part 1, which takes up half the book, another prank by the kids goes wrong and Poppy may have shot and killed a store owner.

 

This was a pretty long read with some interesting parts here and there, but I really wasn’t that into it. I mean, who really was the wrong girl? It was okay, but not great.

 

Rating: 3 stars

Friday, June 5, 2026

Spotlight: PATCHES OF RED by Liz Flaherty


He’s handsome but can’t even remember her name. She’s pretty, but her finickiness drives him crazy.

After twenty years as a nurse practitioner in the same practice, Ellie Wentz gives notice. When office politics interferes with her job, it’s time to get a new one. When her son and daughter-in-law buy her house and she has sold and given away everything else that’s not attached to her heartstrings, she packs up what remains and goes to Harper Loch to spend time with her best friend. She’ll decide what to do and where to go from there. No matter how much the handsome friend of her friends annoys her.
Jesse Grant comes to Harper Loch to help out his niece for a few weeks. He’s retired from the navy, his boys are grown, and he’s at loose ends. But he really likes the little lake community in Michigan—he thinks he might stay. Long widowed, he has no interest in getting married again, and neither does the redhead he can’t seem to avoid. And yet ...